Settlement matters
Document 1784John Pierce communicates to Andrew Dunscomb in reference to commutation for deranged officers, the status of prisoner release, and the transmission and reciept of vouchers and certificates.
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Philada Sept 16. 1784
Dear
I have received your letter of the 2d Instant am happy that the post goes off satisfactorily as received, I presume that those which followed by Post as well as by Captn. [undecipherable] are also by this time in your possession —
The accounts of [undecipherable] 1783 and [undecipherable] —
I had Mr. Starkley vouchers I should have sent them two or three weeks ago, but when they will now arrive is uncertain.
I am under very particular obligation to you for your appearances respecting the [undecipherable], to prevent impostions, my honor as well as this public interest and deeply interested in it —
Major Claiborne is in [undecipherable] on his [undecipherable] I will inform you what probability you may have in obtaining his account.
I have Officers who were [undecipherable] Jany 1783 but entitled to Commutation, by the resolve under which they [undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] returns of [undecipherable] ones who were not provision by [undecipherable] is by an order from the War Office directed to [undecipherable] place May 1. 1783.
I believe I have persued already very much of the time, what can be [undecipherable], if any more can be found I shall forward them.
[undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] supposed to have been [undecipherable] the
[undecipherable]
Mr Dunscomb Esquire
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter made from Author's Files
Description
John Pierce communicates to Andrew Dunscomb in reference to commutation for deranged officers, the status of prisoner release, and the transmission and reciept of vouchers and certificates.
Date
09/16/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1784091637301
Page start
1
Note
This letter is not signed, but is probably written by John Pierce.
Notable persons
Andrew Dunscomb
John Pierce
Captain Nate
Major Claiborne
deranged officers
prisoners
war office
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New York
Notable items
vouchers
certificates
commutation
muster of the line

