Pay application

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Pay application

Description

Application for supernumery pay. Mentions having been a prisoner of war for four years during the Revolutionary War

year created

1784

month created

05

day created

20

author

sent from location

New Brunswick

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

Captain John Mercer
Major John Pierce
paymaster general to the continental army
colonels
paymasters
prisoner
Mr. Edward Patterson
Congress
officers
prisoners
New jersey Regiment

notable location

Philadelphia
New Brunswick

notable item/thing

certificate
supernumerary pay
commutation
minutes
deranged

document number

1784052075501

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (4 pages) ccp02 (4 pages) Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) B:67

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author John Mercer New Brunswick [n/a]
Recipient John Pierce Philadelphia [n/a]