Pay account of a New York regiment
Document 1784Discusses the settlement of the pay account of a New York regiment.
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[Copy Mich: Connollys receipt in behalf of the 1st N York regiment for 202627/90 Dollars]
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Philadelphia June 14 1784.
Received of John Pierce Esqr two thousand three hundred & forty Certificates dated May 1784 and Numbered from 64,919 to 67,278 inclusive — bearing interest from the different periods for which they are given; amounting in the whole to two hundred two thousand, one hundred & [undecipherable] 70/90 Dollars, being the balance due to the Officers and Soldiers of the 1st New York regiment as follows viz: Pay for the year 1782 — Clothing for 1782 & 1783: Pay for 1783 — Gratuity of eighty dollars to each Non Commissioned Officer & privates who served during the war — Subsistence of the Officers from [undecipherable] 1 1778 to the 1st August 1780, and from 1st August 1780 to 1st January 1782 — and commutation of five years full pay in lieu of half pay for life to the Officers — all which Certificates I do hereby promise to deliver the individuals to whom they respectively belong, or deposit them for their benefit in the supreme executive of the State of New York agreeably to an act of Congress of the 3d November 1783.
In behalf of the 1st Regiment
Signed Michael Connolly
[Copy]
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Discusses the settlement of the pay account of a New York regiment.
Date
06/14/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1784061470101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Michael Connolly
officers
soldiers
New York Regiment
privates
supreme executive of the State of New York
Congress
Notable locations
New York
Philadelphia
Notable items
certificates
May 1784
dollars
balance due
1782
clothing
1783
pay
gratuity
the war
subsistence
June 1778
August 1780
January 1783
commutation
full pay
half pay for life
deposit
act of Congress of 3 November 1783

