Response to the Petition of Tucker, Condy, Williams, & Armstrong
Document 1790Knox responds to the petitions of Joseph Tucker, Thomas Hollis Condy, Robert Williams, and Samuel Armstrong, late paymasters and agents of the Continental Army from the State of Massachusetts. He maintains that these men are not entitled to additional allowances unless the allowances are granted to them by the legislature of Massachusetts.
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The Secretary for the Department of War, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Tucker, Thomas Hollis Condy, Robert Williams, and Samuel Armstrong
Reports,
That the petitioners soon after the conclusion of the Late War, were appointed Agents to the Regiments of the Massachusetts line, to which they had been attached, for the purpose of receiving from the Paymaster General, the certificates of final settlement due the Officers and Soldiers of the Regiments and paying the same.
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Knox responds to the petitions of Joseph Tucker, Thomas Hollis Condy, Robert Williams, and Samuel Armstrong, late paymasters and agents of the Continental Army from the State of Massachusetts. He maintains that these men are not entitled to additional allowances unless the allowances are granted to them by the legislature of Massachusetts.
Date
05/25/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1790052500301
Page start
5
Note
Enclosed in Knox, 02/27/1793.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
petitioners
agents to the regiments of the Massachusetts line
Paymaster General
officers and soldiers of the regiment
Congress
legislatures of the respective states
Supreme Executive of the States
Board of Treasury
Commissioner of Army Accounts
Notable locations
War Office
Massachusetts
Notable items
conclusion of the late war
certificates of final settlement
allowance for their services
resolution of Congress of the 3rd of November 1783
value of services performed
rate of compensation