Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts
Document 1785John Pierce writes Francis Tate a letter disclosing the proper channels to be used for settlement.
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[For Mr Hammersley
Copy
March 30 - 1787]
[undecipherable: Oficed]
Savannah, March 30. 85
As the object of my settlement is the line of the Army only, the Commissaries Department your claim of pay while in the Commissaries Department does not fall under my notice — the Commissaries Department up to Jan. 1. 1782 is settled by W Jonathan Burrall at present in N York — after that period and to the end of the war by Jas. Milligan Esquire Comptroller of the Treasury now at Morroheulers Congols as I sitting — him to him you ought therefore to apply and settle not only your [undecipherable] account for your expenditures of our public monies & delivery of provisions. I am unhappy that it is not in my power to settle your business here;
and now, Sir Your
most Obedt Servt.
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter made from Author's Files
Description
John Pierce writes Francis Tate a letter disclosing the proper channels to be used for settlement.
Date
03/30/1785
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Savannah
Document number
1785033021001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Francis Tate
John Pierce
Jonathan Burrall
James Milligan
Comptroller
commissary
Notable locations
Savannah
New York
Treasury
Notable items
public monies
pay
war
settlement

