Army Officers' Subsistence Pay
Document 1784Encloses estimates for the subsistence of the Army for December 1783 and January 1784. Mentions the considerable inconvenience to officers from not receiving subsistence payments for December and request that the pay be sent to him. Requests seven or eight hundred dollars for supply of his own necessities as well as the necessities of those gentlemen assist him.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Encloses estimates for the subsistence of the Army for December 1783 and January 1784. Mentions the considerable inconvenience to officers from not receiving subsistence payments for December and request that the pay be sent to him. Requests seven or eight hundred dollars for supply of his own necessities as well as the necessities of those gentlemen assist him.
Date
01/04/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1784010437201
Page start
1
Note
addressed to Mr. Morris
Notable persons
Robert Morris
John Pierce
Army
officers
General Knox
Notable locations
West Point
War Office
Notable items
estimates
subsistence
December
January
money
pay
dollars
provisions