Memorial of Jesse Cook
Document 1786Report on memorial of Jesse Cook by the supervisor for the settling army accounts; discusses the role of captains.
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That the Commission for Settling the accounts of the army [undecipherable] advances offered the memorial of [undecipherable] book [undecipherable] department, has been to report,
That the 8th of April 1781, your Commission [undecipherable] the accounts of all the army [undecipherable] without their [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] usual mode of paying the [undecipherable] these [undecipherable] who comes from which was [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] voted by the Commissary of [undecipherable].
That your Commission omitted the settlement [undecipherable] their depreciation, in consequence of the above mentioned resolutions, and that I have gone the first day of August 1780, a [undecipherable] always been [undecipherable], for [undecipherable]
That the State of Connecticut [undecipherable] for that time.
That your Commission is in his [undecipherable] with these officers, and considers them as the Governor of this State and [undecipherable] captains, to be a sufficient number to settle their accounts as exists of law in his department.
That the Memorial also traces clearly [undecipherable] depreciation next pay from the States [undecipherable] for the difference between the eligiment of Lieutenants and Captains, has been for some reason unknown to your Commission [undecipherable] been enacted by the legislature of the State,
[undecipherable] only [undecipherable] of the memorialists, and as well [undecipherable] report the Secretary at War, [undecipherable] very justly [undecipherable] so that the state be authorised [undecipherable] agreements to settle with them as Captains instead of Lieutenants.
[undecipherable] July 6, 1806
Description
Report on memorial of Jesse Cook by the supervisor for the settling army accounts; discusses the role of captains.
Date
07/06/1786
Author
Sent from
Office of Army Accounts
Document number
1786070621001
Page start
1
Note
Signed as Commander of Army Accounts, Report on Memorial of Jesse Cook.
Largely illegible.
Notable persons
John Pierce
Jesse Cook
army
commissioner
officers
captains
governor
memorialists
commissioner of army accounts
legislature
lieutenants
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts
Connecticut
Notable items
depreciation
memorial
entitlements

