Statement of Claims of Major Samuel Finley
Document 1791The United States in account with Major Samuel Finley of the Virginia Line.
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[C N° 1292.]
[State of Sam: Finney Esq.]
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T° The United States in account with [Brevet?] Samuel Finney late of the Virginia line Cr.
For his pay as lieutenant in Col. Rawlings Corps
from the 1st July to the 1st October 1778 3 Mos
6 days @ 13 Doll p month 57.34
For D° 8° from 1st October to 1st Janu[ary]
1778 2 Mos 18 days @ 71 [cents?] 07.43
For D° D° as Captain in the Virginia line from D°
to 1st Janua 1779 11 days @ 30 Doll p mo 14.00 130.00
For an advance [made?] of pay from 1st July to 13 Janua
1779 16 days as Captain 38[?] Doll p [undecipherable] 12.46
For the D° 1° D° as lieutenant from the 13°
Janua to [M?] 1° p January 1779 18 [?] to at 0° 11.00
For D° D° 1° D° as Captain from 1° Janua
1779 to 1st [July?] [October?] 1780 [undecipherable]
[his exchange?] 1811 Days = 1935 Doll @ [undecipherable] 1788 720.56
For [postage?] [undecipherable] pay of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] cents to 1° dollars 61 [?] 74.13
To Balance 243/20
Dollars 1135.22
For pay as Major of Colonel [Porge's?] Detachment from
1° [January?] [undecipherable] Days [undecipherable] 1782
14 months @ 50 Dollars [undecipherable] p mo 600 ..
Dollars 600 ..
By Cash [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Ditto [undecipherable] John Beatty 533.33
Ditto [undecipherable] Gibson [undecipherable] 121.11 337.14
By [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The State [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] payment of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
by Said State [undecipherable] the United States 1° 1781
[undecipherable] Virginia [undecipherable] 300.50
By cash [undecipherable] now to Joseph [undecipherable] Samuel[?] &
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 333[?] Dollars old [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] 5 Janua [undecipherable] 1781 45.30
By the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or has been [undecipherable] by him
in September 1779 of [undecipherable] Rawlings on [undecipherable]
of the [undecipherable] 29.05
Dollars 1135.22
By Balance 243.37
By [undecipherable] paid [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Ditto by Major [undecipherable] Green in [undecipherable]
Ditto by 1° Charles [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Virginia
Line [undecipherable] Days [undecipherable] July[?] 140 ..
By one [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] October [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] October 1 ..
By balance to be credited in interest from the 1° [undecipherable] 1788 405.13
Dollars 800 ..
[States in account with Major Samuel Finney] [Virginia Line?]
[undecipherable amounts and calculations] 130 ..
323 ..
323 ..
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
By Balance [undecipherable] Carried [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [undecipherable] payment [undecipherable] 185
[undecipherable] 10 [undecipherable] payment [undecipherable]
[undecipherable calculations]
Dollars [undecipherable] 135.13 [?]
[undecipherable] 275
Balance [undecipherable]
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Balances to 13 May 1791.
Joseph [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] 1783
being a [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Comptrollers Office 1° May 1791
[undecipherable] Accountant
[signature]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Treasury
Auditor
[signature: undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Accountant [undecipherable]
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
The United States in account with Major Samuel Finley of the Virginia Line.
Date
05/13/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Office of Army Accounts
Document number
1791051321201
Page start
5
Note
Enclosed in Howell to Wolcott 05/13/1791
Notable persons
Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Auditory of the Treasury
Joseph Howell
Lt. Col. Stockley, Paymaster
Shoemaker
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Office of Army Accounts
Comptroller's Office
Notable items
interest

