Incomplete vouchers
Document 1791Letter from Colonel Zebulon Butler, who had transmitted his vouchers to the office but they were incomplete.
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Wilkesbarre, Jany 28. 1791
Sir
I have transmitted my Vouchers to your office for a settlement but they were incomplete and did not fully account for the monies charged on the books against me.
The charge of May 1777. was duly paid to the 2 Regiments for which it was designed. The Receipts from the proper Officers I can show —
The charge of Septr [undecipherable] 1776. of monies designated [questioned] for the [undecipherable] companies also went to their use. I can show — and for their Subsistance — while here after the money expended. I have justly a ballance in my favor — which I can evidence by entries mad at the time —
I find there is a stoppAge 45 [undecipherable]
I know not for what [undecipherable] it be that hitherto I have not sufficiently shown how I disposed of the monies [just] mentioned.
I live at a distance and would request of you — information to what quarter I must go for a settlement — whether to your office or to the Office in [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Connecticut — would you be kind enough to do this by the Bearer — [undecipherable: probable reading Mr. Welles] — you would greatly oblige your very humbly Servant — Zebulon Butler
ate Col°
Jos Harwell Esquire
NB. [undecipherable] to your [undecipherable] — if there is not a Receipt [undecipherable] from one sign'd by [undecipherable] M[undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Regiment lodg'd in your Office —
[Address cover:
Jos. Harwell Esqre
Commissioner of Army Accounts
Philadelphia]
[Docket notations:
66 7/9
5
71 7/9
from Colo. Zebulon Butler
1495/1
from Col. Lt. Butler
Jany 23. 1791
4 Contema[undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter from Colonel Zebulon Butler, who had transmitted his vouchers to the office but they were incomplete.
Date
01/23/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Wilkes-Barre
Document number
1791012370001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Colonel Zebulon Butler
commissary army accounts
officers
regiment
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts, Philadelphia
Wilksbarre
Wilkes Barre
Connecticut
Notable items
vouchers
incomplete vouchers
settlement
books
balance
stoppage
receipt

