Enclosed vouchers
Item
Type
Letterbook
Title
Enclosed vouchers
Description
The Commissioner of Army Accounts encloses vouchers and information on Colonel White's account.
year created
1786
month created
12
day created
15
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in collection
in image
author note
John Pierce
recipient note
Andrew Dunscomb
notable person/group
Andrew Dunscomb
John Pierce
Colonel White
Captain Francis Mills
prisoner
notable location
New York
notable item/thing
Vouchers
aid-de-camp
pay
appointment
document number
1786121521255
page start
198
transcription
New York, December 15t,h 1786
Dear Sir
Enclosed are the vouchers you transmitted me to authenticate the charges in Col White's account - they are returned because his accounts ought to be settles by him with the state - the letter to him I will thank you to deliver on his arrival at Richmond. It contains his accounts and vouchers - Cap Francis Muir having settled his account of old monies with you and not accounted for the whole he received into a considerable sum I have copied and send his account as it stands in my books and also in your settlement - I observe also that he charges his extra pay as did de Camp while prisone. You know that the pay of an Officers Commission never ceases until he is Congressionally discharged but the extra pay of a staff appointment is only given for certain temporary services performed which ceases with the services and an Officer as soon as made a prisoner being incapacitated from service cannot therefore be entitled to and extra pay hs place was therefore immediately filled by some other Officer where the service was still necessary where no tthe office and its appendages consequently (undecipherable). I wish you therefore to inform one of the reasons of this change and the propriety of its admittance. I am (undecipherable) L Pierce
Andrew Dunscomb Esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed are the vouchers you transmitted me to authenticate the charges in Col White's account - they are returned because his accounts ought to be settles by him with the state - the letter to him I will thank you to deliver on his arrival at Richmond. It contains his accounts and vouchers - Cap Francis Muir having settled his account of old monies with you and not accounted for the whole he received into a considerable sum I have copied and send his account as it stands in my books and also in your settlement - I observe also that he charges his extra pay as did de Camp while prisone. You know that the pay of an Officers Commission never ceases until he is Congressionally discharged but the extra pay of a staff appointment is only given for certain temporary services performed which ceases with the services and an Officer as soon as made a prisoner being incapacitated from service cannot therefore be entitled to and extra pay hs place was therefore immediately filled by some other Officer where the service was still necessary where no tthe office and its appendages consequently (undecipherable). I wish you therefore to inform one of the reasons of this change and the propriety of its admittance. I am (undecipherable) L Pierce
Andrew Dunscomb Esq
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:198 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | John Pierce | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Andrew Dunscomb | [unknown] | [n/a] |