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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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 1st 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 his account.
Major Finley was returned to Mr. Dunscomb the Assistant Commissioner of Army Accounts, for the State of Virginia, as retiring from service the 1st of Jany 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
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 Hebiger, the pay of subsistence had 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. Esq.
Auditor of the Treasury.
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the United States]
Dr. The United States on account with Major Samuel Finley late of the Virginia Line Cr.
For his pay as Lieutenant in Col. Rawlings Corps from the 1st July to the 3rd October 1776, 3 Mos
6 days @ 18 Dolls per month 65 54.
For Do Do from 3rd October to 20th Decem[ber]
1776 2 Mos 13 days @ 27 [undecipherable] 07 45
For Do as Captain in the Virginia Line from 21st
to 31 Decem 1776 11 days @ 20 Dol. pr me 14 00 13000 [undecipherable]
For one returned ration pr day from 1st July to the 15 Novem[ber]
1776 the days in Captivity 138 rations @ [undecipherable] 12 24[undecipherable]
For like Do pr Do as Lieutenant from the 13th of
Novem to 20th of Decem 1775 70 d[ays] @ 3/4 11 00
For his Do pr Do as Captain from 21 Decem[ber]
1776 to the 31st of October 1780 the days of
his exchange 1411 days = 1233 Rat[ions] @ [undecipherable] Sp[ecie] 70 [undecipherable] 15 72969[undecipherable]
For fourteen & a half days pay of rations allowed to travel
390 miles to 1 90 dollars pr day 24 15
To Balance 214 79
Dollars 113692
For pay as Major of Colonel Posey's Detachment from
1st of January [undecipherable] beginning from 1782
12 months @ 50 Dollars pr me 600 "
Dollars 600 "
By Cash & Supplies of Elas Boudinot Esq. £ 68 157 11
" ditto of John Beatly £ 333[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
" ditto of Abram Sumner £ 121 11 337 24
By this sum received [by] the State of Virginia for Rations
[undecipherable] present [undecipherable] account of [undecipherable] submitted
by said State against the United States £ 1 79[undecipherable]
$117[undecipherable] 2:0 Virginia currency 3903 0
By Cash paid him to Joseph Carlton Paymaster to
the Brigade [undecipherable]
received [undecipherable] = 45 80
By [undecipherable] sum [undecipherable] to have been advanced to him
in September 1776 of Colonel Rawlings on [undecipherable]
of Pay [&] Rations 29 68
Dollars [undecipherable]
By Balance [undecipherable]
By Cash paid [undecipherable]
ditto by Major Gen. Green in Bel[t?] [undecipherable]
ditto by Lt Charles Stickley [undecipherable] to the Virginia
Line for Pay [undecipherable] 100 "
By one pair of [undecipherable] rec'd [undecipherable] 1 "
By balance to be certified on Interest from the 1st Jany 1783 105 13
Dollars 300 "
[Major Samuel Finley Virginia Line]
[undecipherable]
Philadelphia 13th May 1791
Joseph Howell
131 [undecipherable] To bear Interest from [undecipherable] 1st 1783
being a mean date[undecipherable]
Comptrollers Office 17 May 1791
[undecipherable]
Oliver Wolcott Junr Esquire
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 Hagerstown old Courthouse after the Surrender of York Town in Virginia I directed Major Finley, who was then posted at Penn's Tavern in [undecipherable: probable reading Amelia], [undecipherable] 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 marched with a Battalion under Command of [undecipherable] Col. 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 11th 1791.
Christian Febiger
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

