Request for Account Information or Refund
Document 1797Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to John Colgin, late a Captain in Colonel Campbell's Regiment by Pressley Nevill for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in Pennsylvania 1794. Money was advanced to Captain Colgin by warrants, who then paid Colonel Campbell's regiment from Virginia. Simmons gave specific details on the appropriate manner to file account.
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advances. I have to request your immediate attention to render such as you actually possess or can obtain shortly, properly Stated, and in case of deficiency to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States.
I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your immediate attention to this object in consequence of a Resolution of Congress of the 3 March last directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for.
Coll. Neville the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts relative to that expedition and is to attend for that purpose on the 15th November next, before which time I hope your account & Vouchers will be regularly furnished and examined at this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account in the aforesaid abstract to be laid before Congress. I am &c.
Wm Simmons Acctr
Mr John Colgin
Late Capt. in Col. Campbells Regt.
Virginia Militia
Accountants Office
October 17th 1797
Sir Charles City County, City Point Post Office
In an abstract of monies advanced by Presley Nevill Paymaster General to the Militia called out to suppress an insurrection that took place in the western counties of Pennsylvania in the year 1794 you stand charged with money received from him pursuant to a warrant
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to John Colgin, late a Captain in Colonel Campbell's Regiment by Pressley Nevill for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in Pennsylvania 1794. Money was advanced to Captain Colgin by warrants, who then paid Colonel 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
1797101723155
Page start
362
Note
note in heading, "Charles City County City Point Post Office"
Notable persons
John Colgin
William Simmons
Colonel Campbell
Colonel Presley Neville
Virginia Militia
Congress
Treasurer of United States
paymaster general
Notable locations
Charles City County, City Point, Post Office
Accountant's Office
Virginia
Richmond
Notable items
abstract of monies
insurrection
warrant
pay
expedition
vouchers
refund
balance
abstract of names
public monies

