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Document 1786Letter from the Accountant at the Commissary of Army Accounts, or the Pay Office.
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We whose names are hereunto subscribed do hereby acknowledge that we have received from Joseph King Paymaster of the late Regiment of [undecipherable] securities for the several names before mentioned — amounting to ten thousand two hundred and Eighty three dollars and 76/90 all which we engage to deliver to the persons Respectively Named, if it can be conveniently done, — And also make Return of the Receipts of all [undecipherable] and Securities Remaining on Hand to the Pay Master General at his Office at Philadelphia or to the said Joseph King on or before the first day of September next As Witness our Hands at Hartford the 30th day of April 1784
Witness Present Note. before signing we will either Deliver
Moses Butler the Securities which may be left with the
John Dodd Receipts as aforesaid to the Treasurer for the
State of Connecticut at Hartford
Jonth. Phillips
John Thomas
Office of Army Accounts
New York November 29th 1786
I do hereby Certify that the foregoing Abstract and Receipts are true copies of the Originals sent this day enclosed in a Letter to Oliver Wolcott Junr Esquire [undecipherable] Hartford State of Connecticut from John Pierce Esq Pay. Master General Commissioner of Army Accounts — which letter was delivered by me to the Post master of New York —
Joseph Howell Junr [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Army Accounts
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Office of Army Accounts . November 22d 1786
Gentlemen
I take the liberty to inform the Board, that Mr. William S. Alexander who acted as D.M. at Charlotte in North Carolina; has in his hands the sum of fifty seven thousand six hundred dollars of the bills emitted by the States of Virginia & Maryland under the resolution of Congress of March 18th 1780 which sum he received in July 1781 and has not paid agreeably to his obligation or rendered any account of, to the Officers of the United States— copies of the vouchers which authenticate this information I do myself the honor to enclose and am with great Respect &c
J. Pierce
Honorable Board of Treasury
Charlotte July 27th 1781
67,600
Recd from John Pierce Paymaster General [undecipherable] by the hands of John White Escort from the Board of war, sixty seven thousand and six hundred dollars of the New Emission which I promise to deliver to Joseph Clay Esqr or General Green or either of their orders with three duplicates which I promise to deliver at the same time having signed two rects of the same Tenor & Date A.D. [undecipherable]
Wm. S. Alexander
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Type
Letterbook
Description
Letter from the Accountant at the Commissary of Army Accounts, or the Pay Office.
Date
11/29/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Office of Army Accounts, New York
Document number
1786112921055
Page start
192
Note
Enclosed in Pierce to Wolcott, 11/28/1786.
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
John Pierce
paymaster
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts, New York
Virginia
Notable items
Receipt

