Accounts of the Southern Army
Document 1784His account and some accounts of the Southern Army have been forwarded. Encloses a bill of exchange.
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Charleston [undecipherable] July 20th 1784
Sir
I wrote you sometime past acquainting you that I had sent you by the Brig. Mastr Anthony [undecipherable] Hager in October last, my Acct. Currt and [undecipherable] up to said Month, and in-[undecipherable] said Nichols, and that I should [undecipherable] render the receipts of many them Copied over before I sent you the acc-ompanying Vouchers. I do now transmit you the same, with sundry Accounts left with me by Col Pennington & [undecipherable] M[undecipherable] S. Surv[undecipherable], also a Copy of the Clothier's Accounts, with a Book containing General Greene's Accts for advances he made to Officers. You will likewise receive Accounts of Ballances due the United States from sundry Officers of the Cavalry, Horse & the [undecipherable] hines as settled with them by me —
I also inclose you a Bill of Exchange drawn by Mrs M: Mathews on her Husband the late Governor Mathews in favor of General [undecipherable] for two hundred [undecipherable] sixty six dollars [undecipherable] transmitted to the General by the Superintendent of Finance [undecipherable] Bill was refused [strikethrough: Acceptance] and the General did not [undecipherable] to have it [undecipherable] Protested.
[undecipherable] the Allowance Congress has made me, will be much obliged to you, to inform me how many Months Subsistence [undecipherable] upon you for, as the Book in which I noted it [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] by an Accident I have lost. I remain
Your Obed Humd Servt
John Sandford Dart
[John Pierce Esqr
in
Philadelphia]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
His account and some accounts of the Southern Army have been forwarded. Encloses a bill of exchange.
Date
07/20/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Charleston, South Carolina
Document number
1784072070101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Pierce
John Sanford Dart
Anthony Captain Hages
Colonel Carrington
deputy paymaster general of the southern army
General Greene
officers
officers of the cavalry
Mrs. M. Mathews
Mrs. Mathew's husband
Governor Mathews
Superintendent of Finance
Congress
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston
South Carolina
North Carolina
Philadelphia
Notable items
October 1783
account
vouchers
accounts
book containing General Greene's accounts
advances
balances due the Unites States
bill of exchange
dollars
allowance
subsistence
book
credited
accident

