Settlement of the accounts of French officers
Document 1784Discusses the settlement of the accounts of French officers in the American Army.
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[To Robt Morris Esqr
16 April 1784]
Pay Office Philada 16th April [undecipherable]
In compliance with the request of his Excellency the [undecipherable] of Finance and your Instructions. I do myself the [undecipherable] the following State of the Accounts of [Lt] Col [Dubuysson] [undecipherable] Col [Genats], Officers who have been engaged in our [undecipherable] in France—
The [Baron de Kalb] having already had a Settlement [undecipherable] at the Treasury and [Lt] Col Du[undecipherable] having received in [undecipherable] of an Act of Congress of the [7]th [April] 1777 a full Satisfaction [for] his Demands against the United States, [undecipherable] to [have] an Investigation of their Accounts.—
State of [Lt Col] Du Buysson [undecipherable] with the United States [undecipherable] charged with the following Sums omitted in his Settlement [undecipherable] 1783: viz.—
[undecipherable] Sums granted him by a [Requisition] [undecipherable] [October] 1777 in a Bill of Exchange in [undecipherable] Grand at Paris Exchange = 3 Livres [per] Dollar — 94200
in old Congress 20 Dollrs [undecipherable] — [65]00
[undecipherable] to be Credited to his Pay as [Lt Col] from [undecipherable] the time to which he had Settled his [accounts] [undecipherable] 1783 when he was [discharged] by a Resolution [of Congress]
[undecipherable] Months [25] Days — [@ 60] Dollrs [per Month] — 230
[3] Rations [per] Day for the Above time [17] [Days]
[468] Rations [@ 95] [per] Ration
Balance of Seven hundred & twenty nine Dollars
State of [Lt] Col [Hierry's] Account
This is to be Credited as follows:
For his Pay as Captain of Engineers from the 22d of May 1777 to [the]
96 [undecipherable] following is 6 Months 3 Days to 40 [Dolls per Month] [undecipherable]
[Ditto] as [Lt] Col of Engineers from the [26] Novemr 1777
to the 1st May 1778 is 6 Mo [&] [00] [to] [Doll per Month] — 360
[Ditto] from the 1st May 1778 to the [31] December
[17] — [3] Years [264] Days [15] Dollrs [per Month] — 3235
Rations from the 1st June 1778 to the 1st August 81
186 Days @ [4] Rations [per] Day [1650] [&] [Go] — 50000
Ditto from the 1st August 81 to the 31st [Decem] [1783]
153 Days @ [80] [Rs per] Day [612] Ra: — [64]51 — 4404
[Find] him Charged with the following Sums—
[1777] [Sptem] Paid him by Col [Pelfrey] [1638] [Livres] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — [1458]
[18 August] Do [101] [livres] [4] — 40
[undecipherable] Do — 1100 — 4 — 11225
[Oct] Do — 300 — 5 — 100
[Nov] Do — 265 — 6 — 4400
[7 April] [undecipherable] Do — 460 — 9 — [7]
[Septem] Do — 1035 — 24 — 4311
[9 May] Do by [Jno] [Cadillen] 100 — 24 — 48
[18] Sept Do [by] [Monor] [6 Livres] 122 — [undecipherable] — 2472
[7] June Do by the [Army] Board 50 — 22 — [52]
[16] [Mar] Do by [Wm] [Somersett] 30 — 22 — [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Oct Do 100 — 5 — 20
[79] [Oct] Do by [Jno] Pierce Cor 475 — 30 — 1525 — 520
Leaving a Balance of three thousand [eight] hundred and [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] due by the United States to [Lt Col Louis Hierry] —
[Lt Col Dubuysson] [and] [Lt Col Hierry] [are not] entitled by any [Resolution] of Congress to half Pay or Commutation.—
State of Lt Col Genats Account
He is to be Credited as follows: vizt
For his Pay from the 1st December 1781 the time to which he had Settled his Accounts to the 3d Novemr 1783 is 23 Months 1st Days — @ [60] Dollrs [per] Mo [1364]
Rations from the 17th Decemr 81 to 1st Januy 83 is 379 Days @ [4]th Day is [1516] Ra: [2/90] — 1602
Ditto from the 1st Jany 83 to the 4th Novr [1783] is 10 Mo 4[3] Days — @ 24 Dollrs [per] Mo — 24236
17362
[Find] him Charged with Goods Received at York Town omitted in his last Settlement — 6000
1689 [68/90]
Leaving a Balance due him from the United States of one thousand six hundred and eighty nine Dollars [68/90] Exclusive of five Years Commutation in Lieu of half Pay, which he is also entitled to —
I am Sir with great Respect
Your most obedient Servt
(Signed) Jno Pierce PMG
The Honble
Superintendent of Finance.—
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Discusses the settlement of the accounts of French officers in the American Army.
Date
04/16/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pay Office, Philadelphia
Document number
1784041621001
Page start
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Notable persons
John Pierce
Robert Morris
pay office
French minister
Lieutenant Colonel Du Buyson
Lieutenant Colonel Gimat
officers
Baron de Kalb
Treasury
Lieutenant Colonel Du Plessis
Congress
Monsieur Grand
Lieutenant Colonel Fleury
captain of engineers
lieutenant colonel of engineers
Colonel Palfrey
Joseph Carleton
Monsieur le Brune
Treasury Board
Hancock
Paymaster General
Superintendent of Finance
Notable locations
Pay Office, Philadelphia
Philadelphia
France
Paris
Yorktown
United States
Notable items
instructions
accounts
settlement
investigation
accounts
account
sum
resolution
bill of exchange
dollars
emissions
credited
pay
lieutenant colonel
deranged
rations
balance
commutation
goods

