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Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts

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Decem 19. 1786 Doctor Wm. Eustice Copied Offices of Army Accounts NYork December 19 1786 Sir

That Sercices are not probably out of compiling after these as the [undecipherbale] merely complicated and as [undecipherbale] pay the commanding Officer of the [?]ment did not pay them, until April 1778. when his [undecipherable] that he went a Volunteer to [?] and he [?] pay from April 1778 to Aug. 1779. [undecipherable] from a volunteer controlled & [undecipherable] to determine, as he [undecipherable] but on the return to Boston, he was either not [undecipherable] by the public or the courtmatial [undecipherable] thought [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] in paying him, as it was considered that he was to be [undecipherable] by then [undecipherable] service as codially ment to [undecipherable] as he recognised [undecipherable] was contraty to the established [line crossed out] [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] Officers in the he then produced from the commander in Chief only [undecipherable] paymaster of his [undecipherable] confess [undecipherable] as the continental [undecipherable] only paid him when actually imployed [undecipherable] as Congressmen never recognised him.or any arrangements according as the public Officer of the Paymaster Offices. I am of opinion he considered as a regualr Officers of the UStates or that he cares not been [undecipherable] by him received any [undecipherable] compensation there is but he has already, unless he app[?] to send obtains the approbation of Congress for it.

Doct. Eustis

Type

Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed

Description

Largely illegible letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts

Date

12/19/1786

Author

John Pierce

Recipient

William Eustis

Sent from

Office of Army Accounts

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859)

Document number

1786121921201

Page start

1

Note

Largely illegible

Notable persons

Doctor William Eustis
Doctor William Eustice
John Pierce
Congress
Commander in Chief
commanding officer
volunteers

Notable locations

Office of Army Accounts
New York
works near Boston
Boston

Notable items

works
certificates
pay
public offices