Pay for Officers of a Disbanding Battalion
Document 1784Bunschoton requests that Pierce provide pay for the officers of the Battalion now being disbanded. He says that the orders for discharge did not arrive until the 5th so the men could not be discharged until the 6th. Most of the men have not been paid for four months and are far from home. Without their pay, they would have a difficult time getting home.
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Type
Autograph Letter / Autograph Document Signed
Description
Bunschoton requests that Pierce provide pay for the officers of the Battalion now being disbanded. He says that the orders for discharge did not arrive until the 5th so the men could not be discharged until the 6th. Most of the men have not been paid for four months and are far from home. Without their pay, they would have a difficult time getting home.
Date
01/30/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Poughkeepsie
Repository
Document number
1784013070001
Page start
1
Note
[In document, addressed to "Pearce."]
Notable persons
John Pierce
E. Bunschoton
officers
Battalion
men
Notable locations
Poughkeepsie
Notable items
subsistence
battalion
order
month
homes