Request for Money and Settlement of Accounts
Document 1794John Heth encloses the contractors certificate to the War Department Accountant, along with a muster roll of recruits. Requests money and a settlement of accounts. Money is needed for taking deserters.
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Winchester 13th Janu.y 1794
Sir
I have Reed your letter of the 27th Dec.r and herewith enclose you the Contractors [undecipherable] of [my] not having drawn any part of my Subsistence
also a muster Role of the Recruits at this place which I have qualified to
You wish me to [undecipherable] up and Certify [undecipherable] the pay Roles, is it to pay the men here or to [undecipherable] him furnish with money to pay them I will forward him Receipts.
I am equally desirous with you for a settlement of my accounts and wish for the Consent of Gen.l [undecipherable] to go to Philadelphia for that purpose [undecipherable] beg you to mention to him of how [undecipherable] claim [undecipherable] I will forward you a Roll of the whole of the men accounted for the Company, the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] paid each man with the money I have [undecipherable] for [paying?] [undecipherable] and other [undecipherable] also the Receipts of the [undecipherable] for a month's pay 13th Nov.r 1793
I am Sir your Humble Ser.t
[undecipherable: probable reading Jn.o Heth]
[Winchester / Jany 13 1794 / [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
John Heth encloses the contractors certificate to the War Department Accountant, along with a muster roll of recruits. Requests money and a settlement of accounts. Money is needed for taking deserters.
Date
11/19/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Winchester
Document number
1794011970101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
John Heth
contractor
recruits
Henry Knox
deserters
Notable locations
Winchester
Philadelphia
Notable items
certificate
subsistence
recruiting
pay rolls
muster roll

