Certification of payment; detachment of recruits stationed at Staunton Virginia under Captain Alexander Gibson: Page #1

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                                                                                                                                      Accountants Office
                                                                                                                                                   May 3rd 1799
                                                               I Certify that there is due to Frances Mentges the sum of one hundred and twenty Dollars and ninety one Cents, being the balance after his account for disbursements made by him cloathing Boarding of and for presents to the Potowatame Ottawa, and Chippewa Indians [illegible] more Knaggs their Interpreters, and to the Chekasaw and Cherokee Indians, Malcolm McGhee and Samuel making the purchases from the 3rd December 1798 to the 1 March 1799 -        
                                                                                                                                             P. Hagner

Indn Department 93........ 53.41 [illegible]

                     Ditto 99..........67.50
                                    Dolls 120.91
The Secretary of War
                                                                   
                                                                                                                                              Accountant's Office
                                                                                                                                                          May 4 1799
                                                                              I Certify that there is due to a Department of Recruits stationed at Staunton, Virginia under the command of Capt. Alexander Gibson the sum of seven hundred and seventy two Dollars and eighty seven Cents - being for the pay of himself and the non commissioned Officers and