Returns of Specie due to Virginia officers
Document 1787Pierce sends returns of specie due to the men who served on the Virginia line, with two abstracts detailing the accounts.
New York April 12, 1787
Gentlemen
I do myself the honor to transmit to you the returns of specie yet due the Officers, Non Commissioned Officers and Privates of the late line of Virginia. The abstract A will shew the amount due to the Officers on accounts properly sworn to and the abstract B contains the amount due on sundry accounts not attested to 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 in these two years at different posts
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posts in the southern department there is a probability that they have been supplied with rations for some part of this 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.
J Pierce
Honorable Board of Treasury
and Secretary at War
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