Claim for monies spent recruiting
Item
Type
Autograph Draft Letter
Title
Claim for monies spent recruiting
Description
Discusses Roskrans' claim against the United States for certain monies paid out during recruiting service in the Revolutionary War
year created
1786
month created
01
day created
24
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in image
notable person/group
Major Roskrans
John Pierce
Congress
public
soldier
recruit
notable location
New York
notable item/thing
demand
1778
1779
1780
dollars
Continental money
claim
real value
discharge
transaction
depreciation
old money
document number
1786012421001
page start
1
transcription
N York Jany 24 1786
Sir,
If I understand the [undecipherable] of your demand, it consists in the
last place for yourself, that the promise of Congress to of
bounty to recruits being made in 1776 it ought to be consider'd
and that at [undecipherable] to the public. if the men [undecipherable], a [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] was given to the Soldier - and [undecipherable] you recruited 34 men in 1778, 1789 & 1780, that you ought to receive from me the full species [undecipherable] of twenty dollars for each recruit _ if you feel is thus your [undecipherable] determined to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] did not receive the full agreed amount of twenty dollars, that he has now a right to claim it. In these I have given a request to the [undecipherable] that as you prove the Continental money from your own Pockett whes- it was greatly appreciated that you can have no further claim upon the public. Then, the real value of the money at the time [undecipherable] when you paid it which I [undecipherable] allowed in your account willing to allow, and to the second I answer that this bounty given in an arrangement [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] by you to the men in the old [undecipherable] when you recruited them, thirty dollars [undecipherable with Old S[undecipherable] - that [undecipherable] have received their money must [undecipherable] operate as a full
satisfaction for the same â the money at that time being
considered as legal tender and received [undecipherable] full discharges
in every transaction- & that as the resolves of Congress what
have granted a compensation for the depreciation
in the old money in several instances do not include the bounty, of congress.
I have am to consider myself as having an authority that granting it - and [undecipherable] & cannot therefore without the discretion of Congress admit the your claim of [undecipherable] on your own [undecipherable] or that of your recruits should they apply personally for it on this subject.
To Major Roskrans
Jan: 24, 1786 [3 NY]
Copied [inscribed in an oval]
Sir,
If I understand the [undecipherable] of your demand, it consists in the
last place for yourself, that the promise of Congress to of
bounty to recruits being made in 1776 it ought to be consider'd
and that at [undecipherable] to the public. if the men [undecipherable], a [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] was given to the Soldier - and [undecipherable] you recruited 34 men in 1778, 1789 & 1780, that you ought to receive from me the full species [undecipherable] of twenty dollars for each recruit _ if you feel is thus your [undecipherable] determined to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] did not receive the full agreed amount of twenty dollars, that he has now a right to claim it. In these I have given a request to the [undecipherable] that as you prove the Continental money from your own Pockett whes- it was greatly appreciated that you can have no further claim upon the public. Then, the real value of the money at the time [undecipherable] when you paid it which I [undecipherable] allowed in your account willing to allow, and to the second I answer that this bounty given in an arrangement [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] by you to the men in the old [undecipherable] when you recruited them, thirty dollars [undecipherable with Old S[undecipherable] - that [undecipherable] have received their money must [undecipherable] operate as a full
satisfaction for the same â the money at that time being
considered as legal tender and received [undecipherable] full discharges
in every transaction- & that as the resolves of Congress what
have granted a compensation for the depreciation
in the old money in several instances do not include the bounty, of congress.
I have am to consider myself as having an authority that granting it - and [undecipherable] & cannot therefore without the discretion of Congress admit the your claim of [undecipherable] on your own [undecipherable] or that of your recruits should they apply personally for it on this subject.
To Major Roskrans
Jan: 24, 1786 [3 NY]
Copied [inscribed in an oval]
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | CFE09 (3 pages) | Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) | B:78 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | John Pierce | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Major Roskrans | [unknown] | [n/a] |