Office of State Army Accounts 13 May 1791— Sir Enclosed is a statement of the Accounts of Major Samuel Finley of the late Line of Virginia — I have carefully examined the Books of the Pay Office, from which it appears that Colonel Rawlings received the pay of his Troops to the 1^st of July 1776, and in September following he received a sum of money on account, of which Major Finley, then a Lieutenant, acknowledges to have received the sum credited in this account. Major Finley was returned to M^r. Dunscomb the Assistant Commissioner of Army Accounts, for the State of Virginia, as retiring from service the 1^st of Jan 1782, Maj. Finley Certificates for his Commutation, but it afterwards appearing by the Muster Rolls that he was in actual service, and commanded a Detachment of the Virginia Line (commonly called Poseys) to the end of the War, M^r. Dunscomb made a statement of the pay due him him and transmitted the same in due season to the late Commissioner for settlement. — At first view of the claim I had my doubts relative to its validity, but on recurring to the Musters, the enclosed Certificate of Colonel Febiger, the pay & subsistence paid him in like manner with other Officers who continued to the end of the War induced me to be fully of opinion that Major Finley is entitled to the Pay now reported. I am most respectfully Sir Your obedient Servant Joseph Howell Oliver Wolcott Jun^r Esq^r Auditor of the Treasury. [C No 1292. State of Sam[uel] Finley [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] States] D^r. The United States on account with Major Samuel Finley late of the Virginia Line Cr. For his pay as Lieutenant in Col^o Rawlings Corps from the 1^st July to the 3^d October 1776, 3 Mos 6 days @ 18 Doll^rs p^er month $4 54 . For D^o D^o from 3^d October to 20^th Decem[ber] 1776 2 Mos 13 days @ [undecipherable] 07 45 For D^o as Captain in the Virginia Line from 21^st to 31 Decem[ber] 1776 11 days @ 20 Doll^rs p^er me 13 00 [undecipherable] For one returned ration p^er day from 1^st July to the 15 Novemb[er] 1776 the days in Captivity 138 Rations @ [undecipherable] p^er rati[on] 12 24[undecipherable] For the D^o p^er D^o as Lieutenant from the 13^th of Novem[ber] to 20^th of Decem[ber] 1775 70 [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] 11 00 For the D^o p^er D^o as Captain from 21 Decem[ber] 1776 to the 31^st of October 1780 the day of his exchange 1411 days = 1233 Rat[ions] @ 5[undecipherable] pence 705 45 72969 For fourteen & a half days pay & rations allowed to travel 295 miles @ 1[undecipherable] dollar [undecipherable] p^er da[y] 21 15 To Balan[ce] 91279 Dollars 113622 By Cash & Supplies of [undecipherable] Boudinot Esq. £ 68 $157.11 " Ditto of John Beatty [£] 333.09 " Ditto of Abram [undecipherable] [Sinner?] [£] 121.11 337 24 By this sum received of the State of Virginia for Rations while prisoner on Account of Compensation exhibited by said State against the United States £ 1951 $117.2.0 Virginia Currency —39030 By Cash paid him to Joseph Carlton Paymaster to the Board[s] War 300 [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Emissions received [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] 15 [undecipherable] = 45 80 By this sum acknowledged to have been received by him in September 1776 of Colonel Rawlings on [undecipherable] of Pay & Rations 2958 Dollars 113622 For pay as Major of Colonel Poseys Detachment from 1^st of [undecipherable] beginning 1782 12 months @ 50 Dollars p^er me 600 " Dollars 600 " By Balance [undecipherable: probable reading 219.67] By cash paid [undecipherable] Ditto by Major Gen[eral] Green in Belt[?] [undecipherable] Ditto by L^t Charles Stickley R 11 to the Virginia Line for Pay [undecipherable] July 100 " By one pair of Holsters rec[eive]d of the Q[uarte]r Artillery 1 " By balance to be credited on Interest from the 1^st Jan[uar]y 1783 105 13 Dollars 300 " [undecipherable] interest [undecipherable] By Balance [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading 106.13] [undecipherable] Nov 16 83 — 375 [undecipherable] Balance [undecipherable] Dolls 481.13 Submitted in [undecipherable] Philadelphia 13^th May 1791 Joseph Howell [signature] 131 [undecipherable] to bear Interest from [undecipherable] 1^st [undecipherable] 1783 being a [undecipherable] amount [undecipherable] Comptrollers Office 17 May 1791 [undecipherable signature] by [undecipherable signature] Oliver Wolcott Jun^r Esq[uire] Auditor of the Treasury [Colonel Febiger's Certificate relative to the Services of Major Finley] I do certify That when I took Command of the Troops at [undecipherable] in Berland old Courthouse after the Surrender of York Town in Virginia I directed Major Finley, who was then posted at Penns Tavern who I heartily found to join me with his Detachment, which he Did and continued with me doing Duty as Major at the Post untill the Month of March, 1782 — when he march with a Battalion under [Com]mand of Col^l. Posey to join the Southern Army under Major General Green and that he Continued in Actual Service a considerable time afterward and for ought I Know to the End of the War. Philadelphia May 11^th 1791. Christian Febiger