Account of Charles Burnham
Document 1795Certification of service and settlement of pay for Charles Burnham, late private in the 4th South Carolina Regiment, Artillery.
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The United States in Acct with Charles Burnham [Lieut?] 4th Reg Artillery [undecipherable] Co [undecipherable] Drs [undecipherable]
By [command?] pay of the [State?] of
South Carolina for [undecipherable] who [undecipherable] in 77. 62 [months?]
Ca 1 100 Dollars for one [annum?]
1 S[undecipherable] d[undecipherable] for 1773. 83 Dollars @ 3 [undecipherable] for one
[undecipherable] of S[undecipherable] Jany. [undecipherable] Mar[undecipherable] ~ 27 93
[undecipherable] of the United States from 1
Ap[ri]l 79 ½ 1 Jany. 80 ~ 9 Mo[nths] 78 ~
Ca 8¾ [undecipherable] M[onths] 24 ~
Pr Acct of the State for Sept Art[ille]r[y] 129.58
Nov 8 Feb[ruar]y 79
By balance [undecipherable] D[ollars] [undecipherable] 249.84
from the 1 August 1780 ~ ~ 15 to Dollars p[er] [annum?] 320.79
39.40
22.13
2.68
[seal: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
Department of War
Accountants Office
December 3, 1785
Settlement [undecipherable] of an [undecipherable]
the first [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
the United States for the 27 of June 1792
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Williams?]
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Dr The United States in [Acct?] with Charles Burnham [undecipherable]
For his Pay as [undecipherable] from 1 [undecipherable]
ff to 2d Feby 19. [undecipherable] M[onth]s 1 day 83.63
Ca 8/6 [undecipherable] p[er] Mo[nth]
to [undecipherable] Gunner from 2d Feby
[undecipherable] to 12 May 1790 inclusive 237.18
27 Months 11 days @ 8¾ [undecipherable] M[onths]
Dollars 320.79
Note: I have [undecipherable] only allowed [undecipherable] Captured
[undecipherable] to the time he was Captured
[undecipherable] [Summons?]
The Auditor of the Treasury
[seal: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Certification of service and settlement of pay for Charles Burnham, late private in the 4th
South Carolina Regiment, Artillery.
Date
12/03/1795
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1795120321010
Notable persons
Charles Burnham
William Simmons, Accountant
Richard Harrison, Auditor of the Treasury
Notable locations
Department of War Accountants Office
South Carolina
Treasury Office
United States
Notable items
Account
nominal pay
dollars
cents
balance to be certified on interest
settled in pursuance of an act of the First Session of the Second Congress of the United States
27 March 1792
mattross and gunner


