Pay Office Business and Pay of Southern Army Officers
Item
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Title
Pay Office Business and Pay of Southern Army Officers
Description
Discusses various business of the Pay Office, including the payment of the Maryland Continental Army officers and other Southern officers. Writes of "so many instances of deceptions" in claims for pay.
short description
Pay Office Business and Pay of Southern Army Officers
year created
1786
month created
05
day created
06
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in collection
note
Also an ADrL
The draft letter is not signed but is in Pierce's hand
The draft letter is not signed but is in Pierce's hand
author note
John Pierce
recipient note
John White
notable person/group
John White
John Pierce
Maryland officers
Southern officers
Mr. Mifflin
Mrs. White
Forage Department
Quartermasters
Lieutenant Baker
notable location
New York
Maryland
South
Annapolis
notable item/thing
money
allowance
claims
attestation
papers
forage accounts
settled
settlements
advances
subsistence
instances of deceptions
some further check
document number
1786050621355
page start
12
transcription
New York May 6 1786
Dear Sir
Your favors of April 22d & 29th your letter 18th of
March with its inclosures is arrived â in respect to
the specie subsistence still due to the Maryland
and other Southern Officers, I am at at a loss
how to conduct myself, but as there is no money
or prospect of any I presume there is no necessity
at present either to admit the whole on the
attestation of the officers exclusively or totally
to refuse the allowance, we have met with
so many instances of deceptions that I should
rather wish not to admit claims which may
be made by so such considerable numbers without
some further check to their accounts than an attestation. I have
already informed you that Mr Mifflin will not
come on to Annapolis, I wish you therefore
to forward there by your Papers by Mrs.
White.
The Forage accounts are settled with the
Forage Officer Department or rather the Quarter
Masters that existed at the time & place [undecipherable] place where
it ought to have been drawn, as the knowledge
of the quantity drawn and of the settlements
made can only rest with them.
I have charged Lieut Baker with the
advance made by the state as you requested.
May 6th 1786
John White Esq
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John White Esqr
Dear Sir
Your favors of April 22d & 29th your letter 18th of
March with its inclosures is arrived â in respect to
the specie subsistence still due to the Maryland
and other Southern Officers, I am at at a loss
how to conduct myself, but as there is no money
or prospect of any I presume there is no necessity
at present either to admit the whole on the
attestation of the officers exclusively or totally
to refuse the allowance, we have met with
so many instances of deceptions that I should
rather wish not to admit claims which may
be made by so such considerable numbers without
some further check to their accounts than an attestation. I have
already informed you that Mr Mifflin will not
come on to Annapolis, I wish you therefore
to forward there by your Papers by Mrs.
White.
The Forage accounts are settled with the
Forage Officer Department or rather the Quarter
Masters that existed at the time & place [undecipherable] place where
it ought to have been drawn, as the knowledge
of the quantity drawn and of the settlements
made can only rest with them.
I have charged Lieut Baker with the
advance made by the state as you requested.
May 6th 1786
John White Esq
Copied
John White Esqr
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | DEL01 (361 pages) | Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) | V:134; P:12 |
| [view document] (2 pages) | XZM19 (2 pages) | Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) | B:369 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | John Pierce | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | John White | [unknown] | [n/a] |