Concerning various accounts and certificates
Document 1786Letter to the accountant of the Pay Office concerning various accounts and certificates.
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I am extremely sorry to have given you the [undecipherable] accounts, as to trouble you thus far. The first representation is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] made it my duty to attempt to determine whether [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] and from [undecipherable] Morgan Certificate it appears [undecipherable] that he had not drawn any of his [undecipherable] payments and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upon personal, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Certificates it appeared right for me to call on the [undecipherable] General for the whole for the last [undecipherable] [undecipherable] left upon [undecipherable]. I have called on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] State [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] opportunity of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] days [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] should be [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] pay — While appearing from the [undecipherable] Certificate [undecipherable] be due to him.
There was one Robert [undecipherable] M[undecipherable] at that time [undecipherable] will give me a certificate for [undecipherable] days of [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] not know where to find him — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all accounts that [undecipherable] charges [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] for the late charges in. The further payments [undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] my new [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in commission in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at that time I know [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] for the pay until the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] June 1780 after — which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] back to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Your [undecipherable] what can we do and [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Thanks for your [undecipherable] — I will let you know the whole [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] send me [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] any further [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter to the accountant of the Pay Office concerning various accounts and certificates.
Date
1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1786999970001
Page start
1
Note
From this document's location in the collection, it appears to be from 1786.
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Jonathan Ford Morris
surgeon
Morgan
Paymaster General
Captain Ogden
auditor
Ashby
servants
Reid
Colonel Morgan
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
certificate
draft
surgeon's certificate
pay

