Certificate to Mr. Bedlow
Document 1787Writes that Mr. Bedlow, postmaster, has received the certificate.
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their drafts when the Commissioners and that the Accounts of
such [undecipherable] are so different that the Commissioner for the
department cannot furnish from his Office such information
as was probably included 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 23d 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 case being
precedent in his favor his demand has no farther Objections
than what they were attended with.*
All which is Humbly Submitted
The Secretary of
Congress S.P.
Type
Letterbook
Description
Writes that Mr. Bedlow, postmaster, has received the certificate.
Date
09/25/1787
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1787092521155
Page start
313
Notable persons
Peter Edes
John Pierce
Bedlow
postmaster
Richard Walker
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
Subsistence
certificate

