Certification of payments; pay of detachment at West Point
Document 1797Certification that $30.14 is due a detachment of the First Regiment stationed for the service of the Ordnance Department at West Point, being their pay for October 1797.
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Accountants Office
November 20th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Francis Da Costa
The sum of eight hundred and thirty eight Dollars and thirty seven
Cents, being the amount of his account of Salary, and expences in travelling
to and from Cecil Furnace, for the purpose of Inspecting Cannon for the
United States agreeably to directions from the Secretary of War
[underline: Dollars 838 37/100]
W. Simmons
Act.
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 20th 1797
I Certify that there is due to the Estate of
Stephen Herr late a private in Captn William Peats Co of Levies, deceas'd
the sum of twenty eight Dollars and thirteen Cents being for Balance
of pay due to him from the 9 April to the 11 November 1791 the day he
was killed, which amount is payable to Aaron Van't bine by virtue of
a letter of attorney from [underline: Penelope Herr] Heir to the effects of said Stephen
Herr
Wm Simmons
Act.
[underline: Dollars 28.13]
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 21st 1797
I Certify that there is due to a detachment of
the United States first Regiment stationed for the service of the Ordnance
Department at West Point the sum of thirty dollars and fourteen Cents
being for their pay for October 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to
Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York to be by him paid to George Flemm[undecipherable]
Ordnance and Military Store Keeper at West Point who is to be held
accountable for the due application of the same.
[underline: Pay of the Army for 1797. 30.14]
The Secretary of War
Wllm Simmons
Act.t
Department of War
Accountants Office
November 21st 1797
I Certify that there is due to Robert
Bowle late a Private in Captn Vanswearingers Company of
Levies. the sum of Eighteen Dollars and eighty one Cents being
the balance due him per Abstract D. No 199, which sum is payable
to John Moylan Assignee to the said Robert Bowle.
[underline: Pay of the Army 1791. 18 81/100 Dollrs]
Wm Simmons
Act.t
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 22d 1797
I Certify that there is due to John Flebble
late Captain of a troop of Dragoons the sum of Three hundred
Seventy five dollars being for Six Months pay & subsistence allow-
ed to deranged Officers by the act of Congress of the 3d March 1797
agreeably to a list of Officers deranged received from the Secretary
of War which sum is to be transmitted to John Habersham
Esqr in Georgia to be by him paid to Ensign Hugh McCall who
is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Pay of the deranged Officers 240.
Subsistence of Ditto 135.
[underline: Dollars 375]
Wm Simmons
Act.t
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $30.14 is due a detachment of the First Regiment stationed for the service of the Ordnance Department at West Point, being their pay for October 1797.
Date
11/21/1797
Author
Recipient
Document number
1797112121055
Note
Added document.
Notable persons
William Simmons
James McHenry
George Fleming
Nicholas Fish
Supervisor New York
Ordnance and Military Storekeeper West Point
1st Regiment
Ordnance Department
accountant
Secretary of War
detachment
Notable locations
New York
accountant's office
West Point
Notable items
pay

