Report on the Memorial of Marinus Willett
Document 1786Pierce's report to Congress on the memorial of Colonel Marinus Willet, commander of a New York militia regiment in the Revolutionary War, concerning the settlement of his regiment's pay
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Army Commrs Office N York 24 May 1786
The Commissioner for settling the Accounts of the late Army of the United States to whom was referred the memorial of Marinus Willett late commanding a Regiment of Invalids embodied in the State of New York, begs leave to report.
That the Regiment entered the service of the United States at the commencement of the Campaign of 1782, under the resolution of Congress of the second day of April 1781 and continued on the Frontiers of this State of N York from that time until the end of the war.
That the resolve of Congress appears to have annex'd certain conditions to the admission of the payment of the two Regiments of Infantry proposed to be raised by the State of New York, one of which is that the Officers be proportioned to the number of men actually in service, and another that the State fill up their quota of Troops for the Continental Army —
That the Regiment had its full complement of Officers when it entered the service excepting the recruiting Lieutenant and a small deficiency in the number of men necessary to compleat the quota of a Regiment of Infantry of about Sixty-nine men.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Pierce's report to Congress on the memorial of Colonel Marinus Willet, commander of a New York militia regiment in the Revolutionary War, concerning the settlement of his regiment's pay
Date
05/24/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Army Commissioner's Office, NY
Document number
1786052421055
Page start
28
Notable persons
Charles Thomson
John Pierce
Commissioner for settling the accounts of the late Army of the United States
men
Continental Army
troops
officers
recruiting lieutenant
Commander-in-Chief
Secretary of Congress
Notable locations
Army Commissioner's Office
frontiers of the state of New York
Notable items
memorial
campaign of 1782
resolution of Congress of 2 April 1781
Revolutionary War
payment
regiments of infantry
service
quota of troops
returns of the War Office
1781
1783
paid
clothed
resolution of Congress of 20 August 1782
subsisted
arrears

