List of paymasters and agents
Document 1784List of paymasters and agents with their regiments and the dates their accounts were settled.
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[State Dep't. Received Nov 24, 1794. No. 430/B10]
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Col. S. Pickering [undecipherable: Esq.] Newburgh
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N. Burroughs, Lieut. Morrison's [undecipherable] the Agent — retained
Sales up to Feb. 4, 1784
1 Meriwether [undecipherable] Lt. Eggleston [undecipherable] sales as agent up to [undecipherable] 1784
2 — ditto L.E. Moore [undecipherable] sales as Agent up to Feb. 1784—
3 — ditto — unsettled
4 — ditto — Wallace [undecipherable] Lat. Am[undecipherable] [undecipherable] retained to settle the amount employed passing [undecipherable]
5 — ditto Capt. Alex Ringwood [undecipherable] D.P. Park Holland [undecipherable] Feb. [undecipherable]
Echo 1.84, except one — Mr. [undecipherable] detailed for absence
6 — ditto Capt. Alex Ringwood as [undecipherable] sales up to Feb. 1784
7 — ditto Lt. Jos. Tillier — do — do —
8 ditto Lt. Armstrong [undecipherable] sales agent up to [undecipherable] Feb 1.84 and [undecipherable]
one M. obligated for advances [undecipherable]
9 ditto Lt. Rob. Williams agent [undecipherable] sales up to Feb 4, 84
10 — Capt. N.G. Allen Agent [undecipherable] sales up to [undecipherable] 1.84—
note 1 — ditto — settled [undecipherable] by Lt. Eggleston
[undecipherable] — L. Danforth [undecipherable] sales for [undecipherable] Feb. 84
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14 — do — do —
[undecipherable] 10½ — L. Borden [undecipherable] as Agent up to Jan 1784—
[undecipherable] N. Poland Lieu. Mrs. Doolie as agent [undecipherable] sales up to [undecipherable] 1784
Lt. Berkeley [undecipherable] name stated as [undecipherable] from 3 apt to Feb. 1.84
1 [undecipherable] Lt. [undecipherable] sales as agent up [undecipherable] Jan 1784 [undecipherable]
up — do. Lt. Thurston for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] May 18, [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Nathan [undecipherable] Agent [undecipherable], also [undecipherable] March 1. 84
[undecipherable] sales agent [undecipherable] Oct 1, 84—
[undecipherable] Harp [undecipherable], [undecipherable] Co [undecipherable], [undecipherable] — their accounts are unsettled
a Henry [undecipherable] Corp [undecipherable] Bar. [undecipherable] sales as agent up to Feb 1
L. [undecipherable] Morton [undecipherable] as agent up to [undecipherable] Jan 1 84
do Lt. Jac. [undecipherable] sales as agent up to [undecipherable] Jan 1 84
[undecipherable] Thomas [undecipherable] — Capt. [undecipherable] agent [undecipherable] sales for
Aug. dawn 1783
B. [undecipherable] — Capt. Burton lat. [undecipherable] sales up to Jan. [undecipherable]
as agent up to [undecipherable] March 1, 84—
Thomas [undecipherable] — Capt. Thornton [undecipherable] sales reg to
Oct. 1, 1784—
for [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] sales [undecipherable] Agent [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] March [undecipherable]
All those had claims [undecipherable] sales [undecipherable] generally to [undecipherable] their
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the 9 Mo[nth]s — and
the N[orth] [undecipherable] —
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most of them were entitled to [undecipherable] while as [undecipherable] or by returning their names to Head Quarters or the furloughing them — I know therefore not paid them any thing al[undecipherable] while they I subsistence in any other way — I gave them subsistence while actually employed as they could not live without it — and told them I had no power to promise them any further [undecipherable] ance; which, as their business was very important and Laborious I suppose them entitled to — whatever you should give them for forage or any other way, as well as what I have paid them ought to be charged to [undecipherable] or on account. I was not fully [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] supplies to [undecipherable] — it would be well if I could see you before you stated their [undecipherable] ance — those who settled their accounts first paid [undecipherable] your greatest attention to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] get least — some who have not obtained their
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Type
Autograph Letter
Description
List of paymasters and agents with their regiments and the dates their accounts were settled.
Date
04/01/1784
Author
Recipient
Document number
1784040140001
Page start
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Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
John Pierce
Pierce
Pickering
Quartermaster General
Paymaster General
New Hampshire Line
Major Morrill
agent
1st Massachusetts Regiment
Lieutenant A. Eggleston
agent
2nd Massachusetts Regiment
3rd Massachusetts Regiment
4th Massachusetts Regiment
5th Massachusetts Regiment
6th Massachusetts Regiment
7th Massachusetts Regiment
8th Massachusetts Regiment
9th Massachusetts Regiment
10th Massachusetts Regiment
Rhode Island Line
1st Connecticut Regiment
2nd Connecticut Regiment
3rd Connecticut Regiment
New York Line
1st New Jersey Regiment
2nd New Jersey Regiment
Artillery
Storer
Walker
Holland
Benjamin Haywood
Jos. Tuchner
Armstrong
Robert Williams
Allen
Dunforthe
Sampson
Dexter
Burlingame
Janning
Sherman
Nathan Bears
Captain Martin
Peck
Captain Dantford
Captain Hunton
James
Captain Knowles
Jos. King
gentlemen
Headquarters
the Army
Notable locations
Newburgh
Newburgh
Notable items
subsistence
1 February 1784
1 October 1784
unsettled
1 April 1784
deducted
absence
January 1784
service
1 August 1784
1 January 1784
1 March 1784
absent
accounts unsettled
1 June 1784
November 1783
December 1783
accounts
paid
allowance
business
pay
forage
account
papers

