Pay of a Regiment's Officers

Item

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Title

Pay of a Regiment's Officers

Description

Pierce discusses the documentation necessary for certain gentlemen to claim their pay as officers of a Revolutionary War regiment

year created

1786

month created

05

day created

18

author

sent from location

New York

recipient

in image

note

The manuscript letter is not signed but is in Pierce's hand

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author note

John Pierce

recipient note

Henry Godwin

notable person/group

Henry Godwin
John Pierce
gentlemen
Secretary at War
magistrate
late Army

notable location

New York
Office of Army Accounts

notable item/thing

musters
regiment
service
depreciation
subsistence
certificate
deranged
resolutions of Congress of 3 and 21 October 1780
claim
commutation
power of attorney
certificates

document number

1786051821255

page start

23

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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:23
[view document] (2 pages) XZL10 (3 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 Henry Godwin [unknown] [n/a]