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William Simmons letter August 2, 1798

August 2, 1798
Accountant’s Office
William Simmons to Richard S Blackburn
Simmons provides Blackburn a balance of his account.

August 2, 1798
Accountant’s Office
William Simmons to James McHenry
Certification that $6.67 is due Captain Richard S. Blackburn of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of his account embracing bounties to soldiers, expenses of recruiting, incidental and contingent expenses, and monies remaining in his hands from the pay of himself and the detachment under his command at Fort Norfolk, for February 1797 through May 1798.

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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.