Specie Due to Virginia officers

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Board of Treasury for General Knox April 12, 1787 Copied New York April 12, 1787 Gentlemen I do myself the honor to transmit to you the returns of specie yet due the officers, non-commiss Officers and privates of the late line of Virginia. The abstracts A and B will [undecipherable] the amount due to the [editor’s note: two undecipherable lines of text] for the years 1782 & 1783 this abstract has been made from the accounts of the Individuals lodged in My office – and as the Officers of the line were Stationed at these two years at different posts in the Southern department there may be is a probability that they have been supplied with rations for some part of the time from the public magazines. I have therefore been Obliged to depend on the oath or certified account of the Officer for the Justice of his Claim.

The Board of Treasury of the Secretary at War

Type

Letter

Description

Transmits to the Board of Treasury and Secretary at War the returns of specie due to officers of the late line of Virginia.

Date

04/12/1787

Sent from

New York

Document number

1787041221001

Page start

1

Note

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Notable persons

John Pierce
Henry Knox
Board of Treasury
officers
non-commissioned officers
privates

Notable locations

New York
Virginia
posts

Notable items

Specie
returns of specie
late line of Virginia
abstract
amounts
Southern department
rations
claim