Memorial of General Huntington
Document 1787Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts to the Secretary of Congress on the Memorial of General Huntington.
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Sir New York Sept. 22d 1787.
I have Inclosed draft dated 13 Instant drawn by the Board of Treasury on the Loan Office of your State for 2350.72 Dollars being for the pay, Subsi. & forage due the Officers Appointed by the State of New Hampshire agreeable to the Inclosed Estimate. you will Sign the Inclosed receipts & return them by the Post
[undecipherable] J.P.
Major Jonas. Case
New York Sept. 25th 1787
The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred the Memorial of Jedodiah Huntington Late a Brigadier General in the Army of the United States Begs Leave to report
That the difficulty attending the Petitioners and other Similar Cases has been the General Officers not being Confined to one daily ration as was the Case with the Regimental Officers, have drawn from the different Commissaries such quantitys of provisions on Accot, as they thought proper for the Supply of their respective tables; that but few of these Gentlemen have kept any regular Accot of their drafts upon the Commissaries and that the Accounts of Such Issues are so different that the Commissioner for the department cannot furnish from his Office such information as will probably include the whole quantity drawn by each Officer; your Commissioner therefore by reason of this uncertainty declined the Settlement of these Gentlemens Accounts, none of which have been closed excepting those of General Thompson under the resolution of October 3d 1786. and Genl. St. Clair under that of February 3d 1787.
Your Commissioner begs leave further to report that General Huntington has rendered such an Account of the rations he has received as that he is ready to Attest to their Amount, and that the above mentioned cases being precedents in his favor his demand has no farther Objections than what they were attended with.
All which is Humbly Submitted
The Secretary of J.P.
Congress.
Sirm New York Sept. 25. 1787.
I received your Letter of the 11th Instant and find that Mr. Bedlow the Post Master here did by your order on the 3d of July 1786. received from me a Certificate dated that day for 112 dollars on Interest, from the first
Type
Letterbook
Description
Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts to the Secretary of Congress on the Memorial of General Huntington.
Date
09/25/1787
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1787092521055
Page start
312
Notable persons
Secretary of Congress
John Pierce
Jedodiah Huntington
Memorialist
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
Commission
Memorial


