Payment of Troops and Number of Desertions
Document 1794Letter from Bezaleel Howe to Joseph Howell, accountant at the War Department, regarding receipt, muster, and pay rolls. Addresses payment of troops and desertions. Howe a few months prior fought in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
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Sir
I have with inclosed you a Rect [undecipherable: probable reading "Rolls"] of the [undecipherable: probable reading "men"] under my Command for the month of May last. Conformably with the money I received agreeable to the muster Roll. by accident I lost the Capt Roll of my [undecipherable: probable reading "Muster"] at New Brunswick you will [undecipherable: probable reading "be"] able to Compare These Rolls with There. I forwarded to your office in June I think Them. Exactly Copied. I have received no money for the Deputies as you will See by my Rolls. all the the Expeditions depend in [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] and Only Rolls are lodge with their Corps. are unfunded [undecipherable] yet for want of money. I have left my Rolls out of the Pay Rolls, so many and [undecipherable] have acknowledged the receipt of them months Pay from you. M[undecipherable] They will be left out of the Pay Rolls for three months after his appointment. as to remind Those months [undecipherable] pay in advances at New York I wish you would acknowledge my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] little any account on the march and and every other Charge you have against me, after which my accounts may be easily [undecipherable] at any moment. I have received money on the Rolls since last New Brunswick and on arrival to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the work before the [undecipherable: probable reading "scene"] of action Comes on here. But [undecipherable] large army [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] have they will have [undecipherable] money to fight with. They [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter from Bezaleel Howe to Joseph Howell, accountant at the War Department, regarding receipt, muster, and pay rolls. Addresses payment of troops and desertions. Howe a few months prior fought in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
Date
10/03/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Fayette
Document number
1794100370001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Howell to Howe 10/14/1794
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Bezaleel Howe
army
deserter
Notable locations
Fort Fayette
New Brunswick
Notable items
receipt roll
muster roll
muster
money
pay rolls
desertion

