Request for List of Claims for Services Provided by Negroes in Rhode Island
Document 1794Request for list of all the claims depending for the service of Negroes in the late Rhode Island line of the army;
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Treasury Department
Comptrollers Office
26.th February 1794.
Sir,
I request you to transmit to this Office, as soon as may be, a list of all the claims depending for the service of Negroes, in the late Rhode Island line of the Army.
I am Sir,
very respectfully
Your Obedt Servant.
Oliv Wolcott Jr
[B. # 21 of M]
Joseph Howell [undecipherable]
[Comptrollers Office / Joseph Howell Esquire / Adjutment of the / Department of War]
[Buren Oliver / Feby 26th 1794 / March 1st 1794]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Request for list of all the claims depending for the service of Negroes in the late Rhode Island line of the army;
Date
02/26/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Comptroller's Office
Document number
1794022670001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Oliver Wolcott
Rhode Island Line
Army
Negroes
treasury department
Treasury Department
Notable locations
Rhode Island
Comptroller's Office
Notable items
services
Negroes
blacks
claims
list
Revolutionary War
War for Independence