great difficulty) — will you once more interpose your kindness so far on the subject as to certify that Cap^t Thacher has lodged sufficient vouchers in your Office to authenticate his account for raising a Drum that Company & that he is entitled to the same Allowance as other Officers in the same establishment for the bounty, first months pay & providing gun & blanket &c. for his Company, or will you in some other way remove the difficulty which you will understand from M^r Wolcotts treatise better than myself — If the inclosed Vouchers are not sufficient prose be good enough to advise how I may for better compleat the testimony of your Office, for there aly am I to expect the buisiness finished — am & respect the buisiness finished Sam^s Thacher [The above letter was without date, rec. in Dec^r 1780] [Cap^t Sam^l Thacher, Stafford Fairfield County Connecticut] Office of Army Accounts New York Dec^r 26. 1780 Sir Your letter bearing no date was a few days since received — the money advanced Cap^t Thacher being entirely a State charge, it lies in the breast of the Comptroller of that State to admit or reject the evidence produced by Captain Thacher, and no officer under the United States can possibly have a controul over his opinion while acting under the authority of the State it would therefore be highly improper for me to interfere in the buisiness of M^r Wolcott or to give any directions in the buisiness now depending — To afsist Cap^t Thacher as far as it lays in my power, I have had a strict examination into into the papers of this office, but without the desired effect. I then next turned my attention to the papers of the late M^r Trumbull and found a muster & Recruiting Roll of Col^t Swifts regiment — a copy of which I now inclose — by a certificate from Col^t Swift adjoined to this I tell you will find that on the 28 of Sep^t 1776 Captain Thacher had 2 Lieut 1 Ensⁿ 4 Serg^t 16 Corp^l 2 Drums & Fifes 51 rank & file — it being the duty of the Colonel to enquire of each man if he had received the bounty & wages allowed & no complaints as far as has come to our knowledge being man of a non compliance on the part of Cap^t Thacher it may be presumed that those men received their full bounty & supposing this to be the case Cap^t Thackers account with the State (according to the Comptrollers estimate) would stand thus each man equipped himself with Arms &c. One months advance pay Viz 1 Captain . . . . . 28.0.0 2 Lieut . . . . . . 101.6.0 1 Ensign . . . . . . 4.0.0 4 Serjeants . . . . . 9.12.0 4 Corporals . . . . . 8.14.0 2 Musicians . . . . . 4.8.0 51 Rank & File . . . 102.0.0 147.12. 0 61 Bounties to non Commiss^d Off^rs and Privates @ 6— 366.0. Allowances to 61 men for equipping with Arms @£1 2/ 67.2.— 580.14.0 Committ. to the Cap^t [undecipherable] pay & already p^d 8.14.2 589.8.2 By this sum received of the State 352.— 262.11.10