Account of General Clark
Document 1786Account of Colonel Clark's expenditures as commander of the North Carolina Brigade in the Revolutionary War
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[undecipherable] w. Acct. with the United States 6[undecipherable]
Dollars Shillings
1778 Aug [68] By [undecipherable] dollars to Capt. [undecipherable] & Ly. South for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 100
1779 Feb [66] By Do [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 500
By Do [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to Do 100
By Do to Lieut. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 226
[Mon?] 28 By Do to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [Officers?] of the 1st Regt. [undecipherable] 1650
23 By Do to Capt. [Mc?] Callender Do 300 18,750
Oct 27 By Do to Lieut. Aaron [undecipherable]
1779 Feb 3 By Do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Do 100
1779 [undecipherable] By Do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Officers of the [undecipherable] 6140
By Do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Do [undecipherable] 10,140 12,750
By [undecipherable] dollars to Capt. [Mc?] Callender Acting [Paymaster?] to the 1st Reg. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
for the Dollars charged on the Vouchers dated [Nov?] 1779 10,000
1781 April By [undecipherable] dollars to Capt. The Callender [Paymaster?] to the 1st [Reg?]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] & his Acct [undecipherable]
By Do to Capt. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capts.
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
By Do Capt. [undecipherable] [Paymaster?] to the 3d [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
By Do to Capt. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capts.
By Do to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 35
1778 Dec By [undecipherable] to Capt. John [Hunt?] [Purchasing?] Commissary to the [undecipherable]
Virginia [Brigade?] 2430
[undecipherable] of the said [Commissary?]
By dollars [undecipherable] to the Brig. Gen. Daniel [Morgan?] to his [Account?] for [charged?]
1779 July to the [Gen?] [Hunt?] David [Fleming?] [Commissary?] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 1070
to purchase [undecipherable] Brandy for [undecipherable] 286 10,519
1780 Sep By [undecipherable] papers [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [Petition?] [contained?] on the other side [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Col. Daniel [Morgan?] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] before a Judge [undecipherable] to the Company and also [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[Payment?] to his [plan?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Mrs. Duncan [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[dated?] [undecipherable] 1779 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Colonel [Clark?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Col. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 10,660[undecipherable]
Dollars 69,778 [undecipherable]
I swear that the above is a just and true account of the expenditure of all
Public Money received by me or by my order from the United States &
that I have vouchers for every article accounted. the last of 10 lb 7p Dollars
excepted
14,39[undecipherable] Sworn to before me this [undecipherable] Tho. Clark D.G.
22d Day of June 1786
Brunswick County Tho. Neale Sect. J.B.
Type
Document Signed
Description
Account of Colonel Clark's expenditures as commander of the North Carolina Brigade in the Revolutionary War
Date
06/24/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Brunswick County
Document number
1786062451101
Notable persons
Colonel Thomas Clark
North Carolina Brigade
United States
Captain-Lieutenant G. Scully
soldiers
Captain Howell Tatum
Captain McRee
Lieutenant Robert Hays
Major John B. Ashe
officers of the 1st Regiment
Captain Thomas Callender
Lieutenant Dixon Marshall
Lieutenant Evans of the 2nd Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel Harney
officers of the 2nd Regiment
Major Murfee [ Murfree ]
Lieutenant Thomas Callender
acting paymaster to the 1st Regiment
officers and staff
brigade staff
Captain Robert Fenner
paymaster to the 2nd regiment
Captain Ballard
paymaster of the 3rd regiment
Captain John Kingsbury
artillery corps
Captain Jesse Hunt
purchasing commissary to the North Carolina Brigade
Reverend Adam Boyd
Lieutenant Peter Bascot
issuing commissary
John Simpson
soldier and attendant
Mr. Duncan
officers and soldiers
paymaster general
Lieutenant Slade
Mr. Fisher
officers of the North Carolina Brigade prisoners at Haddrils Point
Congress
Cornelius Harnett
John Williams
state of north carolina
Captain Read
Captain Robert Duncan
paymaster to the 4th regiment
Notable locations
Hillsborough
Charleston
Brunswick County
Haddrils Point
north carolina
Notable items
account
dollars
1778
1779
1780
1781
September
February
March
April
October
December
enlist
regiment
specie dollars
pay
expenses
commissary
hogshead of rum
brandy
sealed paper
debit
trunk
baggage
sum
arrearage
1777
depreciation
money
expenditure
public monies
vouchers
article
continental dollars
general orders
November
order
cash
flag
supplying
necessaries
rum
sugar
arrears due
balance due
overpaid

