Autograph Letter Signed

Concerning a Visit to Georgia

The Commissioner of Army Accounts writes the Georgian commander of three companies that when he visited Georgia, the state's auditor produced to him the payroll of these companies.

Concerning a visit to Georgia

1786

12

22

New York

Document partly illegible.

John Habersham

John Pierce

auditor

Congress

companies

Lieutenant Van Wagenner

soldiery

Wagnre

John Morrill

New York

Georgia

pay rolls

deliver

proof

receipts

credit

payment

discharge

claim

resolves of COngress

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New York December 22d 1786
Dear Sir
[undecipherable] of September last,
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] what appears to be [undecipherable] by [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] when I was on Georgia the Auditor of that State produced
to me the bery [undecipherable] of these companies, [undecipherable] it [undecipherable]
he had adjusted and had paid delivered the State [undecipherable] into
the hands of Leut Van Wagenner for [undecipherable] to delivery to the
soldierys had then no objection to the proof no hibited
for the performances of the services of these men, but
[undecipherable] may appear soon that the state ought present
the sane being passed to call Ltr Wagner to account
[undecipherable] me the receipts of discharges of the
men, for that reason, that the State ought not to
have a credit beyond its payment and that the
discharge [undecipherable] be lodged as a [undecipherable]
against another [undecipherable] from the soldier. I supposed
that at their [undecipherable] they claim of Mr. Morrill was a
subsequent to [undecipherable], in what he had [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
transaction with which the United States had an advance,
I on this opinion I still continue, and I suppore [undecipherable]
not authorized to consider the pay of these men as due to
any individual, but on the contrary apeared by the
State, and therefore according to the Resolves of Congress
already done the other advances [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] State it appears paid [undecipherable]
that your original return, [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] of the sum and as authority from this [undecipherable]
he [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] that
[several lines undecipherable]
[undecipherable] passed by now, to be considered as [undecipherable]-
J. Pierce


Habersham
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