Request for Account Information or Refund
Document 1797Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to Pendleton by Presley Neville, Paymaster General to the militia, for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, 1794. Money was advanced to Pendleton by warrants, who then paid Col. Campbell's regiment from Virginia. Simmons gave specific details on the appropriate manner to file account.
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which are to accompany the account current — A list of the sums remaining unpaid accounting for any balance remaining in your hands unappropriated is also to be furnished —
Your particular attention is required to these several objects as Col. Nevill, the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of the accounts relative to that expedition; and is to attend on the 15th Nov. next for that purpose: before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will all be regularly furnished and examined in this Office, and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. I am &c
Wm Simmons acctr
Mr Henry Pendleton accountants Office
late P.M. to Colo Campbells Regt October 17th 1797
Virginia Militia — Culpeper County
Sir
In an abstract of monies advanced by Prefly Nevill, paymastergeneral to the militia called out to suppress an insurrection in the western Counties of Pennsylvania in the year 1794, you stand charged with monies received from him, pursuant to warrants in your favor, for the pay of Colo Campbells Regiment of Virginia Militia employed in said expedition; and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from these advances, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you possess, or can obtain in a short time, properly stated, — and in case of deficiency to refund the balance to the Treasurer of the United States. I am under the necessity of being the more
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Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to Pendleton by Presley Neville, Paymaster General to the militia, for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, 1794. Money was advanced to Pendleton by warrants, who then paid Col. Campbell's regiment from Virginia. Simmons gave specific details on the appropriate manner to file account.
Date
10/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797101721755
Page start
344
Notable persons
William Henry Pendleton
William Simmons
Colonel Campbell
Virginia Militia
Paymaster General
Treasurer of the United States
Congress
Presley Nevill
congress
regiment
Notable locations
Culpeper County
Accountant's Office
Western Counties of Pennsylvania
Virginia
Notable items
monies
advance
pay
insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania
pay of militia
warrant
account
sums
vouchers
abstract

