Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed

Pay of Three Georgian Companies

Concerning the pay of three Georgian companies commanded by John Habersham.

1786

12

22

New York

Partially illegible due do copying/microfilming

Jonathan Morrill

John Pierce

John Habersham

Congress

soldiers

Wercat

Wercut

New York

Georgia

claim

pay

certificates

confiscated property

receipts

account

resolutions of Congress

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Decem 22d 17[?]
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New York December 22d 1786
Sir
As I understand the nature of your claim for the pay of these
Companies commanded by Mes. Habersham, it carried
from your purdues any from the Soldiers their pay,
[undecipherable]
certificate that as Lines of the State [undecipherable]
in order that he should be considered as payment for
confiscated property, that I should pass the same there
my Office. _ Mr. Wercat made an application to me
for that purpose when I was in Georgia, but on
objection as one that the receipts of the men were
[undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the payment _ As Mr. Wercat
will deliver these with the other originals [undecipherable]
into your or any other persons hands, with an [undecipherable]
from the [undecipherable] of the State to deliver the certificate
I will adjust the account and place the amount
of the same to the credit of the State in the same
manner as I have done the other advances [undecipherable]
to the line. but I cannot now [undecipherable] consider this as
the demand of an individual, for the State [undecipherable]
assumed it, the resolutions of Congress as they now
sland will not admit of an alteration.
I am sir
J. Pierce


Jhn. Morrill Esquire