Various claims
Document 1788Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts respecting various claims; mentions Richard Dullam and General Gates.
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Office of Army Account
New York April 16th 1784
Sir
As we have no agent to Colonel Baldwin's late regiment of officers, he has directed Timothy Coleman, so that part of the regiment belonging to Massachusetts to Col. Thomas Fallon of Boston: I have desired that you will receive of said Fallon the certificates he may get from you on hand and forward to this office a duplicate acknowledgement of his having received his accounts to all his funds charged with as p the enclosed list, that I may, on settlement with Mr King, take the same to his credit in this office —
I am Sir Yours &c
Pierce
John Henry Esqr
New York April 28. 1785
Sir
Finding that M. Noone by lodging his claim in this office prior to August 1784 was not [undecipherable] from his demands by the act foreclosing such claims, and at first supposed, I have therefore inquired into the merits of his claims against the Union and find that on the 21st January 1779 he drew from Richard Dallam a continental paymasters his own pay and that of nine more, who were detained in Philadelphia from Jany 1st. 1777 to the 21st of January following on an order from Genl Gates — who now charges his own pay again for the same time he is not only foreclosed by his former payment from the sum he demands on his own account, but it also leaves a disagreeable impression in respect to his other demands for his men —
Another circumstance deserves consideration, which is that in his letter to you, he says that he applied to Genl Gates for his pay who he insinuates, refused an allowance &c., whereas it appears by the account paid by Dallam, that he had it on Genl Gates' warrant, and the last incircumstance appears very material
Type
Letterbook
Description
Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts respecting various claims; mentions Richard Dullam and General Gates.
Date
04/23/1788
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1788042321055
Page start
354
Notable persons
Nathan Dane
John Pierce
Stevens
Richard Dullam
General Gates
Notable locations
New York
Philadelphia
Notable items
Claim
oath
evidence

