Office of late 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 Mr. 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 Posey's) to the end of the War, Mr. Dunscomb made a statement of the pay due 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. --- [Enclosure: Account Statement] D^r The United States on account with Major Samuel Finley late of the Virginia Line C^r For his pay as lieutenant in Colo Rawlings Corps from the 1^st July to the 3^d October 1776, 3 Mos 6 days @ 18 Dols [per] month 65 54. For D^o D^o from 1^st October to 20^th Decem^r 1776 2 Mos 15 days @ 27 [undecipherable] 07 45 For D^o as Captain in the Virginia Line from 21 to 31 Decem^r 1776 11 days @ 20 Dols [per] mo 14.00 13000 [undecipherable] For one returned ration [per] day from 1^st July to the 15 Novem^b. 1776 the day of his Captivity 138 [rations] @ [undecipherable] 72 24[undecipherable] For like D^o p D^o as lieutenant from the 13^th of Novem^b to 20^th of Decem 1776 70 [undecipherable] @ 3[undecipherable] 11 00 For hire D^o p D^o as Captain from 21 Decem^r 1776 to the 31^st October 1780 the day of his exchange 1411 days = 1233 [rations] @ [undecipherable] 705 45 72939 For fourteen & a half days pay & rations allowed to travel 290 miles @ 1 [per] dollar [per] day 24 15 To Balance 94279 Dollars 113692 For pay as Major of Colonel Posey's Detachment from 1^st of January [undecipherable] beginning here 1782 12 months @ 50 Dollars [per] mo 600 " Dollars 600 " By Cash & Supplies of Elias Boudnot Esq. £ 69 [undecipherable] 157.11 " ditto of John Beatty £ 333.37 " ditto of Abram [Sumner?] £ 121 11 337 24 By this sum received of the State of Virginia for Rations while prisoner as [undecipherable] account of [Claims?] exhibited by said State against the United States £ [undecipherable] 1795 £ [undecipherable] 2.0 Virginia Currency 390 30 By Cash paid him to Joseph Carleton Paymaster [?] the Boards War 300 [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] received [undecipherable] on 15 Jan[undecipherable] 45 80 By this sum acknowledged to have been received by him in September 1776 of Colonel Rawlings on [account?] of Pay & Rations 29 58 Dollars 113692 By Balance [undecipherable] 319.57 By Cash paid [undecipherable] ditto by Major Gen^l Green in Belt[undecipherable] [undecipherable] ditto by [Lieutenant?] Charles [Steckley?] R 11 to the Virginia Line for Pay Jan[undecipherable] July [undecipherable] 100 " By one pair of [Holsters?] rec^d of the [undecipherable] 1 " By balance to be certified on Interest from the 1^st Jan^y 1783 105 13 Dollars 300 " [Submitted 13^th May 1791.] Joseph Howell [undecipherable] to bear Interest from Jan^y 1^st 1783 being a mean date Comptrollers Office 17 May 1791 [undecipherable] Comptroller Oliver Wolcott [Jun^r] Esquire Auditor of the Treasury --- [Enclosure: Colonel Febiger's Certificate] I do certify that when I took Command of the Troops at [undecipherable] Cumberland old Courthouse after the Surrender of York Town in Virginia I directed Major Finley, who was then posted at Penns Tavern, and he [was?] found [duty?] 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'd with a Battalion under Command of [Lt?] Col^o. 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