Certification of pay
Document 1786Certification of pay for Major Joseph Morris
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Certificate from Lieut Ashby of Col. Morgans Corps. & p.M. relative to the pay of Major Morris of s.d Corps —
No 1 1778
[Received [undecipherable], Auditor of the Interior Department, January [undecipherable] 1893. R.M.O. 408095.]
Received May 13: 1778. of Benjamin Ashbey pay Master to Colonel Morgans Corps full Satisfaction for my father Joseph Morris Major his Wages, for the Months of [strikethrough: October] July Aug.t Sept. October & Novem.t with the former ballance of Ninety dollars which the said Ashbey paid him at Albany being first Deducted. Signed Jon.a B.Morris
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I do hereby Certify that Major Morris did not draw any other Money in the Rifle Detachment either for pay or Rations except what is specified in the above Rect. being for his pay in the Year 1777 —
Signed Ben.j Ashbey late
paym.r to Morgans Corn.
July 26. 1786.
I Certify the above to be a true Copy from the Original filed in this Office with the Accounts of M.r Ashbey
Joseph Howell Jun.r M.Comm.r A.Accts
Office of Army Accts.
New York Aug. 25.t 1786
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Certification of pay for Major Joseph Morris
Date
07/26/1786
Author
Recipient
Document number
1786072675501
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Jonathan Ford Morris
Lieutenant Benjamin Ashbey
paymaster
Colonel Morgan
Major Joseph Morris
rifle detachment
assistant commissioner of army accounts
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts
Albany
New York
Notable items
certificate
13 May 1778
wages
July
August
September
October
November
balance
dollars
money
pay
rations
receipt
1777
accounts

