Certification of payments; account of Elias Langham
Document 1798Certification that $1688.01 is due Elias Langham, military storekeeper at Shepherdstown Virginia [now West Virginia], being the amount of the expenditures related to the contingent expenses of the Military Store Department and his compensation from July 1796 through December 1797.
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Accountants Office
February 24th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Ensign Samuel Parmele the sum of eighty Six Dollars & ninety four cents being for balance of his account for Subsistence up to 31st December 97 inclusive, for recruiting & for Incidental & Contingent Expences, which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester supervisor at Wethersfield to be by him paid to the said Ensign Parmele.
Incidental & Contingent Expences for 97 $86.94 Wm Simmons Acctt
The Secretary of War
Warrant 2637.
Accountants Office
February 25 1798
I Certify that there is due to John Javins late a private in Cap[undecipherable: tain?] Thomas Lewis's Company 3d Regiment the sum of forty eight Dollars, being for his pay from 1st January 96 (the time to which he was last paid by the paymaster) to 31st December following, the date of his discharge, which sum is payable to James Ross, Substitute Attorney to Mr Larwell, Attorney or the said John Javins —
Peter Hagner
Pt Clk
Dr 48. Pay of the Army for 96
The Secy of War
Warrant 2645
Accountants Office
February 25 1798
I Certify that there is due to Chas Iungham Military Storekeeper at Shepherdstown in Virginia the sum of Sixteen hundred & eighty eight Dollars & one cent being the amount of his account of Expenditures for the Contingent Expences in the Military Store Department at that post & his compensation from
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1 July 1796 to 31st December 1797 inclusive —
Incid & Cont Exp. 1688.1 P Hagner
[undecipherable] Clk
The Sec of War
Warrant 2643.
Accountants Office
February 25th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Boyd Vaughan late Clerk of the Navy Yard Philadelphia the sum of seventy Dollars & eighty three Cents, being for his salary from 1st January to 20th February 1798 inclusive the date of his resignation.
Peter Hagner
Pt Clk
Dr 70.53
The Secy of War
Warrant 2640
Accountants Office
February 26th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Richard Town late a private in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers Captain Donald G. Mitchels Company the sum of Seven Dollars & forty three cents being for his pay from 1 January to the 24th February 1798 the date of his discharge —
Peter Hagner
Pt Clk
Dr 7.43
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
March 1st 1798
I Certify that there is due to Valentine Hoffman the sum of One hundred & forty Dollars & forty seven cents being for Blacksmiths Work in repairing Guns & making repairing Gun carriages from 1st August to 15 December
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $1688.01 is due Elias Langham, military storekeeper at Shepherdstown Virginia [now West Virginia], being the amount of the expenditures related to the contingent expenses of the Military Store Department and his compensation from July 1796 through December 1797.
Date
02/28/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798022821151
Notable persons
Peter Hagner
James McHenry
Elias Langham
military storekeeper
Military Store Department
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Shepherdstown
Virginia
West Virginia
Notable items
pay
expenditures
contingent expenses
expenses

