[N° 98 Jeremiah Putnam Ens^r Massachusetts Line February 12^th 94 Registers [undecipherable] blk] D^r The United States in account with Jeremiah Putnam Ensign Massachusetts Line For his Pay and travelling Expenses as [undecipherable] By Ebenezer Hancock by P. Mitchell 0.0 133.30 For his Subsistance from the 19^th January 1777 to the 10^th January 1778 Inclu. 51 Weeks @ 2 rills p Week 102 — Balance due the United States — 63.96 165.96 For one Years Supernumerary Pay as Supernumerary Officer, allowed by the Act of Congress of the 24^th November 1778 12 Months @ 20 drs p Month — 240 — Cr. By this sum rec. of Ebenezer Hancock 0.0 133.30 By P^r Gen^l [undecipherable] By last Office rec. of [Elias Boudinot?] 1 Commissary [Generals] Business in 165.96 By Contra Balance — 63.96 176.4 I balance to be Certified on Interest from the 24 Nov^r 1778 — [undecipherable] Dollars 240 War Department Accountants Office February 12^th 1794 Settled in pursuance of an Act of the first Session of the second Congress of the United States passed the 27^th March 1792 — (signed) Jo^s Howell Note — I have stated the within Account with a View of closing M^r Putnam's Account in the Books of the late Pay Office — I am not perfectly reconciled to the allowance of a Year's pay to those Officers who were exchanged previous to the Reform of the Army in 78 — and therefore submit this claim to your determination — See Acts of Congress Vol. 4. pages 20. 21. 118. 316 & 672 — (Signed) Jo^s Howell