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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04642-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- July 1, 1790 - July 6, 1790
- Author/Creator
- Cummings, Caesar Lloyd, fl. 1790-1792
- Title
- Salaries of the Secretary of War and his gentlemen
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.8 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Lists the salaries for the Secretary of War and his staff for April, May and June. The second page includes signatures noting the receipt of the money. Noted as written at the War Office and co-signed by Constant Freeman, William Knox (Principal Clerk), John Stagg (Clerk), Caleb Swan and R. J. Vanden Brock. Indicates that Cummings was a messenger for the War Office, and Cummings signs with a mark. Title is from the docket.
Caesar Lloyd Cummings was a free black man hired by Knox to serve as a runner for the War Department. He was one of only six civilian employees who worked there.
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