Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts
Document 1786Letter to Major Pendleton from the Commissioner of Army Accounts and Paymaster General. Pierce was appointed by Congress for settling the pay accounts of the Revolutionary War Army.
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Nov 4. [&] [July?] 19 1796
The annexed No 1 is a copy of your account current as setled with [undecipherable]. No 2 is the copy of a letter from Mr [undecipherable] regarding it. No 3 is a copy of [undecipherable] a statement made with [undecipherable], and No 4 is an account made out by me referring as any calculation will convince and stating the balance [undecipherable] due given from this [undecipherable] — in this case and I have credited to your credit 393 Dolls 110/— Dols [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — as I [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] 1000 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [Legislature?] of [Virginia?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and be the [undecipherable]
Claiming from [undecipherable] and the [first?] [second?] to be the States for Howard & [undecipherable] and the third to the United States for moneys received from Mr [undecipherable], which he has not charged [undecipherable] you — on the other side of the account I have debited you [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. From [undecipherable] apparent [undecipherable] your information on them I then [undecipherable] not in the lending what [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the subject that this always from [undecipherable] is for your private debt — but I cannot get hold of any evidence on this [undecipherable] except the in [undecipherable] that according to your [undecipherable] of No and it said not [undecipherable] probably amount to so large a sum as the always made [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
I see you are [charged?] with 1,000 Dols [undecipherable] you by [Thomson?] Dols 800 & 366[undecipherable] by Jos[eph?] [undecipherable] in Nov 1790 and that your [list?] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as having been setled by you in your settlement with the States, and I find that you setled 800 Dols 9 as [undecipherable] additional [undecipherable], which I suppose also includes [undecipherable] two [payments?] [undecipherable] some others now charged to you. as I am [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] and [undecipherable], you will [undecipherable] other and
by [undecipherable] in what manner you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [words?], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from when you received the money, you will be given to [undecipherable] for giving yourself much trouble, but unless it is done you ap-pear to need the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in [your?] interest
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Type
Draft Letter
Description
Letter to Major Pendleton from the Commissioner of Army Accounts and Paymaster General. Pierce was appointed by Congress for settling the pay accounts of the Revolutionary War Army.
Date
09/29/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1786092921001
Page start
1
Note
This letter is not signed, but is probably written by John Pierce.
Notable persons
Major Pendleton
John Pierce
Andrew Dunscomb
Joseph Carleton
Revolutionary War Army
Paymaster General
Commissioner of Army Accounts
congress
Notable locations
New York
Georgia
Virginia
United States
Notable items
settlement
pay
accounts
settlement
balance
debited
charge
payment

