Certificate of Jonathan Haskell of the 4th Sub Legion regarding pay to deceased soldiers
Document 1795List of pay advanced to dead soldiers. Haskell notes that the men under his command who died were sick and there was no paymaster at the post; each of them had six months pay due from United States.
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[endorsement on outside of folded document:]
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Maj Jon Haskell
and [undecipherable] payment
6 from [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
dets A.D. [undecipherable]
R D [undecipherable] Jany 19, 179[undecipherable]
a Jany N 20 [undecipherable]
That [undecipherable] N [undecipherable] Eng[undecipherable]
9th [undecipherable] amount
Dal 23 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Haskell
Majr
[docket notation:]
Maj: Haskell,
& money
advance to his
Soldiers
The United States to Major Jon Haskell Dr
To pay advanced the following named Soldiers Nig [undecipherable]
Feby 26th 1792 Pierre Smith [undecipherable]
July 4th 1792 John [undecipherable] Gilman 8 9
August 2d 1792 Joshua Lock 6 42
Feby 1st 1793 James Robinson 3 25
February 28 1793 Isaac Hatch † 2
July 28th 1793 Michael Mahoney [now since] 9 25
Sept 12th 1793 Corpl Josiah Clark [have been [undecipherable]
deducted from]
[undecipherable] of all debts & Cl[ar]r & Capt Has[kell]
Bal in Settlement [undecipherable] & Turner [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 43 1
I certify on honor that the above account is just and true, and that the same charged to the above named soldiers who died in the company then under my command
[undecipherable] of me be paid of their arrears of pay, at a time they were sick, and no paymaster at the post and also each of them had six months pay or more due them from the United States
Philada March 14th 1795 [undecipherable] Haskell Major
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Lightor
It appears by the rolls that the above named men are deceased & that there is a sufficient balance of pay due to them respectively to cover the payments to each by Maj. Haskell the same is therefore allowed to him & be deducted from the arrears due the Soldiers on settlement of the Sub Legionary account — Dept of War
Accountants Office
March 18. 1795.
Joseph Howell Acct
Type
Document Signed
Description
List of pay advanced to dead soldiers. Haskell notes that the men under his command who died were sick and there was no paymaster at the post; each of them had six months pay due from United States.
Date
03/16/1795
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1795031690201
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Haskell
soldiers
pay master
Notable locations
Philadelphia

