Account settlement
Document 1784Discusses the settlement of his account.
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[undecipherable: W.D.]
Holts Sherman
Pay Master-
head [undecipherable]
The [undecipherable] that came have been [undecipherable] 3 September to the Condition of the Money already [undecipherable] Settlement of pay therein or [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] who referred [undecipherable] and authorized by [undecipherable] to settle any [undecipherable] from to [undecipherable] office from [undecipherable] to the State of Connecticut 3 supplied a Mr Sherman of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with any Demands for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] grounds there is under the direction of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your significant [undecipherable] But the [undecipherable] remains they thought before a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] during this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] with any demands. He represented [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] could not be settled as [undecipherable] or resolved on the same [undecipherable] a thousand or two hundred [undecipherable] three hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the demand not to exceed that the Regiment [undecipherable] the Dollars [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the deductions [undecipherable] demands to four hundred forty four Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Delegates to pay a [undecipherable] Settlement going into [undecipherable] 48 [undecipherable] times [undecipherable] there is found in Continental Money of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] interest only the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 11 [undecipherable] and the late [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] but 3 [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] makes only [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Money [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Money [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that 3 [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] early with the laws of [undecipherable] of the Money [undecipherable] recommended [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] about the laws [undecipherable] mentioned [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and these claims is found at a [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which for [undecipherable] this Life to keep [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] within this — 3 [undecipherable] let the then [undecipherable] during the Money [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Money the [undecipherable] a different state and [undecipherable] to settle [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 3 of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] further [undecipherable] from any amounts [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] of three hundred [undecipherable] three Dollars [undecipherable] which arose not allow the Money [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] is no [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] amounts [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] three million [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] when 3 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the laws of [undecipherable] from this [undecipherable] with any [undecipherable] facts [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from 3 they [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] we receive as but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mention that [undecipherable] of the enclosed are 3 the more [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] both [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] facts above not for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] further conduct of the [undecipherable] of my [undecipherable] as it is not [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] no laws to follow a [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 3 to three as [undecipherable] letter that then from 3 any demands as [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] 27 March 1794
Sherman [undecipherable]
D.S. by Commission of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[New Jersey [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of the United States]
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Discusses the settlement of his account.
Date
03/29/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1784032970001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Pierce
John Sherman
Sherman
Mr. Pierce
paymaster
Line
auditors of the army
paymaster of the 23rd regiment
Congress
Mr. Stevenson
Mr. Enerson
commissioners of the middle department
the public
officers
the Army
William Bedlam [Bedlan]
auditor of accounts
the enemy
23rd Regiment commanded by Colonel John Bailey
Commissioner of the Accounts of the United States
Notable locations
West Point
White Plains
New York
Connecticut
Hartford
New Haven
West Point
Notable items
July 1778
settlement
accounts
1776
settle
January 1777
vouchers
money
regiment
discharge
certificate
21 August 1778
information
amount due
dollars
list
abstracts
continental money
sum
bills
honor
appropriation
private purpose
pecuniary emolument
payment
payments
company books of 1777
vounchers
July 1779
1778
miles
town
papers
spring of 1779
service
balance due
return
representation of facts
evidence of the situation
discharge from the accounts
determination of Congress

