Enclosed Certificates for Compensation Due Officers and Soldiers
Document 1790Bounty due, settlements, and account information from the Comptroller's office in Connecticut.
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Hartford 27th Novem 1790.
Sir,
Inclosed herewith is transmitted to you two Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. No 1 dated last May directing the Settlements to be made and compensations allowed to the Agents for paying Final Settlements Certificates to the Officers and Soldiers of the late Connecticut Line It—
No 2. directing me to inform [you] of the Balance due from Capt. John Sherman one of the [undecipherable] to
No 3. is an abstract shewing the settlements made by the Agents &. No 4. Contains the sums paid to the Agents and charge the United States.——
No 5. contains a list of [undecipherable] Officers and Soldiers with the sums of Certificates to their names amounting to Sixteen Thousand seven Hundred ninety Dollars and twenty three ninetieth parts of a Dollar now in the hands of Capt John Sherman unaccounted for and for which he Stands indebted to the United States.
Messer. [undecipherable] who have his claims for compensation on account of his agency accompanied with your letter dated 22nd April 1790 to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Certificate dated 30th June 1790 that he has [undecipherable] nothing which is wantingly allowed [and] paid and charged to the United States; not a doubt existing that the same is as clearly within the provision of [our] Assembly No 1 alluded to. An account No 2 [undecipherable] Capt [undecipherable] Prout, I have written to him but hereafter [have had] no answer, it is [hoped: probable reading] he soon will render any. the[n]
I am Sir with much esteem your
State of Connecticut }
Comptrollers Office } very Obedient [Servant] and friend
Joseph [undecipherable: probable reading Trumbull] [undecipherable]
Joseph Nourse Esq. P. M. G.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Bounty due, settlements, and account information from the Comptroller's office in Connecticut.
Date
11/27/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Hartford, Comptrollers Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790112770001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Ralph Pomeroy
Notable locations
Hartford, Comptrollers Office

