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William Simmons letter January 30, 1799

                                                                                          Accountant’s Office
                                                                                          January 30, 1799
I certify that there is due to the Phoebe Shannon matron to the Hospital at Fort Norfolk the sum of one hundred & twelve dollars and six cents, being for her pay up to the 31 December 1798 agreeable to a certificate of Surgn. Mate Wm Barnwell, which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant Ferdinand L Clarborne, who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof –
                                                                                                  W. Simmons
                                                                                                                                                Acct
Pay of the Army for 97    32.-
Do   do                 98     80.-
                  Dolls         112.-
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Papers of the War Department 1784 to 1800

Papers of the War Department is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed that its files, and the window they provide into the early federal government, had been lost forever. This collection unites copies of the lost files in a digital archive that reconstitutes this invaluable historical resource.