Settling accounts
Document 1789Writes the Commissioner of Army Accounts concerning his own account from his experience in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Muhlenberg had wrongly assumed his account to already be settled.
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[From
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P. Muhlenberg 29.
Sepr 12. 1789
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Major Anwell [undecipherable: probable reading] E. W. O.]
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed
Description
Writes the Commissioner of Army Accounts concerning his own account from his experience in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Muhlenberg had wrongly assumed his account to already be settled.
Date
09/12/1789
Author
Recipient
Repository
Document number
1789091237001
Page start
1
Note
Howell addressed as "Commissioner of Army Accounts"
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Peter Muhlenberg
family
Commissioner of Army Accounts
General Peter Muhlenberg
Major Howell
auditors
officer
Lukeman
Line
public
Notable locations
New York
Virginia
Yorktown
Notable items
Revolutionary War
account
settlement
books
clothing
depreciation