Enclosed Receipts
Document 1796Receipt roll for McRea's company enclosed. Some representatives of deceased soldiers yet to make legal application for pay, McRea requests permission to close accounts.
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[#2
Griffith [undecipherable]
reciev'd 6 February 96
Answ'd Feb. 11. 96]
[William Simmons Esquire
Accountant War Dep't
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]]
[96=254]
Wilmington Jany 4. 1796.
With this you have enclos'd the receipt Role of the Detachment belonging to my Company at this place being for the amount of their Pay from the 1st Apr to the 1st August 1795. also Six receipts from the Representatives James Williams & Matthias [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] pay as [undecipherable] my hands, legal Application he not yet been made [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] orders [undecipherable] I think & Close that account.
I know not whether my Pay & that of the few soldiers here, is to be trans=mitted as Usual from your Office or from the Paymaster of the Corps, therefore enclose as heretofore duplicate Muster Rolls, from the 1st August, to the 1st January '96 being the time for which pay remains due. Please to transmit it as soon as convenient.
I am Sir, with high Esteem
Your Obt.
Hum Sert
[signature]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Receipt roll for McRea's company enclosed. Some representatives of deceased soldiers yet to make legal application for pay, McRea requests permission to close accounts.
Date
01/01/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Wilmington
Document number
1796010170201
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to McRea 02/11/1796
Notable persons
William Simmons
Griffith J McRee
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Wilmington

