Draft Letter

Letter to the Secretary at War

Letter to the Secretary at War from the Commissioner of Army Accounts and Paymaster General. Pierce was appointed by Congress for settling the pay accounts of the Revolutionary War Army. Letter concerns possible discrepancies between the recorded and actual pay of 1782 and 1783.

Letter to the Secretary at War

1786

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Office of Army Accounts New York

Partially illegible, poor microform/copy

Henry Knox

John Pierce

Andrew Dunscomb

Office of Army Accounts

New York

Virginia line

return

account

certificate

pay

settlement

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December 16 1786
[undecipherable] Secy of War


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Office of Army Accounts
New York December 16th 1786
Sir
On the 10th day of January last, I made out did myself the honor to lay before you as compleat a return of [undecipherable] in my possession would permit that [undecipherable] founded on a principle that Mr. Dunscombe who settled well the Virga Line had Marqu' to
the Offices [?] account his own [?] the Officer was to [?] certificates that
spree & any of 1782 & 1783 [?] it was actually received
[?] or not ant that many advances had also been deducted; but
having [?] served I made this [?] the account of the
on [?] the settlements of the line were actually made and entered
[?] in the Books at this offices, I find ome [?]
careful reasons that the ballances are special differ
very considerably when ascertained ffrom the [?]
settlements. I have therefore made a ´[?]
[?] but will do [?] better to the public and the cordi[?]
and Sums what will show the real soon to be paid
to the Lines & the a retains a [?] this the same
[?] Officers have received beyond the pay that
was due to them, and [?] ought to be refunded
unless their demands for subsistances and suffeting
to sevrves them.