Army accounts and move of the pay office
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Army accounts and move of the pay office
Description
Discusses various army accounts and the movement of the pay office to New York.
year created
1784
month created
03
day created
26
author
sent from location
Newburgh
recipient
in collection
in image
notable person/group
John Pierce
Timothy Pickering
Paymaster General
Lieutenant Ebenezer Brown
quartermaster
Patterson's Brigade
General Patterson
Howe's detachment
Howe
Colonel Varick
Captain Palmer
notable location
Newburgh
New York
notable item/thing
forage account
demands
dollars
subsistence
June
paid
cash
General Patterson's receipt
orders
account
department
regiment
settled
office
schooner
effects
papers
damage
water
embark
vessel
movables
document number
1784032690001
page start
1
transcription
261
John Pierce Esqr. Pay Master General
Newburgh March 26. 1784
D Sir,
I have received your favour of the 24th with the inclosures. Your forage account will be adjusted in the way you propose. Among other demands of mine, in one for [8Â ?] dollars subsistence of lieut. Ebenezer Brown for June last. He was guar- ter master to Patterson's brigade, and I paid him is subsistence for that month in cash, and have General Patterson's receipt for it: but when I was transmitting the orders for the subsistence of Howe's detachment for that month, I deducted Brown's __ & Howe's detachment for that month. I deducted Brown's__
thinking his subsistence would be included in the account for my department: but it was not. I should imagine he would not afterwards receive the subsistence of you for the same month. If it be not very inconvenient to examine the account of his regiment, I will thank you to do it, and to inform me whether he received his subsistence there for June last__
Colonel Varick is in New York, where his forage account will be settled when I am in cash.
I shall wait to move my office to New York, forthwith. Whenthere I asked Capt. Palmer about the schooner, and con- cluded her unfit for the carriage of effects and papers liable to damage from Water. I had therefore determined to embark mine in some private vessel bound to New York. I will now engage one for both of us at the same time but for this end with you to give me some idea of the bulk of your moveables, that I may provide room for them.
I am, dear Sir,
with great regard
Your most obedt. Servt.
T Pickering QMG
John Pierce Esqr. Pay Master General
Newburgh March 26. 1784
D Sir,
I have received your favour of the 24th with the inclosures. Your forage account will be adjusted in the way you propose. Among other demands of mine, in one for [8Â ?] dollars subsistence of lieut. Ebenezer Brown for June last. He was guar- ter master to Patterson's brigade, and I paid him is subsistence for that month in cash, and have General Patterson's receipt for it: but when I was transmitting the orders for the subsistence of Howe's detachment for that month, I deducted Brown's __ & Howe's detachment for that month. I deducted Brown's__
thinking his subsistence would be included in the account for my department: but it was not. I should imagine he would not afterwards receive the subsistence of you for the same month. If it be not very inconvenient to examine the account of his regiment, I will thank you to do it, and to inform me whether he received his subsistence there for June last__
Colonel Varick is in New York, where his forage account will be settled when I am in cash.
I shall wait to move my office to New York, forthwith. Whenthere I asked Capt. Palmer about the schooner, and con- cluded her unfit for the carriage of effects and papers liable to damage from Water. I had therefore determined to embark mine in some private vessel bound to New York. I will now engage one for both of us at the same time but for this end with you to give me some idea of the bulk of your moveables, that I may provide room for them.
I am, dear Sir,
with great regard
Your most obedt. Servt.
T Pickering QMG
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | DFJ17 (1 pages) | Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) | V: 87, P: 246-247 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Timothy Pickering | Newburgh | [n/a] |
| Recipient | John Pierce | [unknown] | [n/a] |