Examination of accounts
Document 1788Reports on examining accounts of Major Croghan, Captain Francis Minnis, and Doctor Savage.
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Office of Army Accounts
New York September 25 1700—
Sir
The Officers of Colonel Moylan's Regiment citizens of Virginia having been settled with by that State and by me from the Virgi do to the 1st Jany 1702 makes it indispensably necessary, that a revision of their accounts should take place; I have therefore to request you will deliver Mr O Hara (one of the Gentlemen of this office) the Certificates which may remain in your hands Issued for Benjamin Temple, Lawrence Travis, Alex Trumbley, David Hopkins Erasmus Gill, Thomas Overton— Mr O'Hara will give you a receipt in my name for them—
I wish you to inform me if you have granted the depreciation of pay to St Abel Morris of the old second Regiment & a Supernumerary Officer— & if you deducted from him the sum of Ten 71⁄100 dolls which was due from him to the United States.—
I am Sir
yours &c
J Howell
Ino Nicholson Esqre
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Reports on examining accounts of Major Croghan, Captain Francis Minnis, and Doctor Savage.
Date
09/29/1788
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1788092921055
Page start
93
Notable persons
Colonel Carrington
Joseph Howell
Major Croghan
Captain Francis Minnis
Doctor Savage
late commissioner
War office
Virginia Line
board of officers
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
settlement
pay
commutation
account

