Notes for Pay to a deranged officer: Page #1 Original title: 1letterbook/YOQ01_144.jpg Cancel Reset Transcription Mr. Edmund J. Quincy Accounts Office Superintendant of the July 12th, 1797 Navy Yard at Portsmouth Sir I received your letter of the 5th Inst. enclosing your account for salary as superintendant of the navy yard at Portsmouth from 1st April to 30th June 1 797 inclusive amounting to One hundred dollars which sum you will receive as usual from Joshua Wentworth Esq. Supervisor at Portsmouth, on giving him duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c. Wm Simmons acct _______________________________________ Nichoilas Fisher Esq. Accounts office Supervisor July 12th New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will send you the sum of four hundred twenty one dollars and eighty four cents which you will please pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marchall and take this duplicate receipts for the same, it being for six months Pay & Subsistence allowed him as a deranged officer by the Act of Cengress of 5th March last. I am &c. Wm. Simmons Acct. Notes are a workspace where project participants can keep ideas and observations regarding the transcription of the page. When contributing to the notes, it is encouraged to include the user and timestamp.