Enclosed settled account
Document 1790Encloses a captain's settled account with John Yeates, the late Paymaster of the Delaware Regiment.
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[Letter 14th Jany to Ebrazer McComb Auditor of Delaware — Copied]
Office of Army Accots
New York
14th January 1790
Sir:
The inclosed is a Copy of Capt [undecipherable]'s account as settled in the [undecipherable] Pay M[undecipherable] of the Delaware Regiment on the 1st May 1777 — In the settlement you have to [undecipherable] you will be careful not to admit any charges of Bounties &c previous to that date — and will please to debit him on acct of the United States with One hundred [undecipherable] over drawn of Mr [undecipherable] owing to an error in his accounts for Subsistance — The Two hundd & Ninety two Dollars he states to have recd of George Read Esq. will be placed to the credit of Delaware on the acct of Recruiting —
I am with great Respect
Your Obt Sert
Erazer McComb Esq.
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Encloses a captain's settled account with John Yeates, the late Paymaster of the Delaware Regiment.
Date
01/14/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Office of Army Accounts, New York
Document number
1790011421101
Page start
1
Note
This letter is not signed but is probably written by Joseph Howell.
Notable persons
Eleazer McComb
Joseph Howell
John Yates
Yeates
George Read
auditor Delaware
paymaster Delaware Regiment
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts
New York
Delaware
United States
Notable items
settlement
bounties
provisions
accounts
subsistence
recruiting
pounds
dollars

