Author's Letterbook Copy

Pay due and accounts

Discusses pay due and encloses an account. Includes memorandum of money received from states.

1785

02

05

Lancaster

Joseph Howell

Abraham Dehuffe

servant

George Weiss

assembly

house of assembly

Colonel Atlee

officers

Colonel Miles

Mr. Elias Boudenot

Colonel Joseph Howell

Lancaster

York

account

act of assembly

years

supernumerary pay

petition

entitled

mistake

accounts

manner

case

stated

settled

matter

knowledge

mistakes

pay

pounds

rations

amount

memorandum

states

memory

sum

depreciation

receipt

dollars

amounts

certificate

balance due

if it lay in your power to prevent it

land given to the officers

paying you for your trouble

method of righting myself in the whole

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Lancaster Feby 5. 1785 Dear Sir
My friend George Weifs will wait on you to whom you will be so kind as to inclose the account as you find it as I am well assured you would not see me wronged if it say in your powers to prevent it. I should also be very glad if you'd be so kind as peruse the act of Assembly concerning the years supernumerary pay as I think hard to be excluded from the best if nothing can be done for me I do intend to petition the house of Assembly about it. Col. Atlee inform'd me that I was instilled to the land given to the officers. I should if you would inform me how that was and I shall return you many thanks besides paying you for your trouble and I shall remain as Usual your very Humble Servt. Abraham Dehusse Jos. Howell Junr. Esquire
I cannot help thinking that you have made a mistake in settling my accounts if I should be mistaken I will be the more obliged to you if you will inform me on what manner or case so that I may point out a method of righting myself in the whole ~
I have stated and settled the matter according to the best of my knowledge as followeth and hope you will aright the mistakes any you find. [undecipherable]
My pay due to me is from the 1st September 1776 to the first of January 1777 in Ten Pounds [undecipherable] the rations a [symbol for pound] 3.15 [undecipherable} adding the whole together comes to ------------- {symbol for pounds] 55.0.0
My pay from the 1st of January 1777 to the 10th of May 1778 is sixteen moths of Ten days at fifteen pounds [undecipherable] the rations at 3/9 [undecipherable] days is in the whole]336.17.6
concluded to the amount of } [symbol for pounds] 391.7.6
25 Memorandom of what I have received from the States according to the best of my memory if wrong you will please to rectify.
Received of Col. Miles in Oct 1777 when it was 3 for one the sum of one hundred pound which accruing to depreciation amounts to -------------- [pound symbol] 33..6..8
Received from COl. Atlee in Sept. 1778 when five for one the sum of 250 [pound symbol] amounting to .. ] 50.0..0
Myself Dr. to the State in Your Mpney 9.2 [pound symbol] which is about [pound symbol] 37.6.8 our State Money ] 87.6..3
Gave Mr. Elias Boudenot a recept for 20 dollr in May 1778 when it was five for one amounts to ---------} 1.10.0
Rece.d of Col. Jos. Howell a certficiate for 128[undecipherable] 19/10 dolls. amounting to ------- } 48.0..9 [pound symbol] 220..3..0 Balance Due me