Irregularities in account
Item
Type
Autograph Draft Document Signed
Title
Irregularities in account
Description
The Commissioner of Army Accounts informs Dunscomb of irregularities in his account and requests that all documentation be sent to him forthwith.
year created
1787
month created
01
day created
03
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in collection
note
Largely illegible handwriting.
notable person/group
Andrew Dunscomb
John Pierce
Treasury
Board
Carrington
Samuel Hodgdon
notable location
New York
notable item/thing
books
receipt
certificates
payment
document number
1787010321001
page start
1
transcription
New York
January 3 1787
Dear Sir
You letter of (undecipherable) has come to hand - the (undecipherable) of your receipt books in to account for the certificate paper and to keep an official acknowledgement from the officer H soldier of the receipt of his pay - as there was a receipt of the certificates placed in your hands instead I wish you to make (undecipehrable) an allistation of the (undecipherable) of this misfortune and to (undecipherble) that the same was so defaced that it cannot answer any purpose to the person who should have found it if that was the only discharge I expect and the only one that any of the commissioners can obtain is either a return of their receipts for the paper on a discharge from it which I shall do to you on the arrival of your receipt book and attestation above mentioned the blanks are aready received---By Colonel Carrington is sent to the Loan Office. The specie pay still due the line and also an account the duplicate of which I transmitted you last week ---I have requested Mr Hopkins previous (undecipherable) to require or certificate that this money which I suppose is the case has been accounted for.
I am yo P Pierce
Andrew Duscomb Esquire
N B
The Board of Treasury have thought proper that the residue of your papers should be fowarded me by the stage under the case of someone coming this way it being the safest conveyance
January 3 1787
Dear Sir
You letter of (undecipherable) has come to hand - the (undecipherable) of your receipt books in to account for the certificate paper and to keep an official acknowledgement from the officer H soldier of the receipt of his pay - as there was a receipt of the certificates placed in your hands instead I wish you to make (undecipehrable) an allistation of the (undecipherable) of this misfortune and to (undecipherble) that the same was so defaced that it cannot answer any purpose to the person who should have found it if that was the only discharge I expect and the only one that any of the commissioners can obtain is either a return of their receipts for the paper on a discharge from it which I shall do to you on the arrival of your receipt book and attestation above mentioned the blanks are aready received---By Colonel Carrington is sent to the Loan Office. The specie pay still due the line and also an account the duplicate of which I transmitted you last week ---I have requested Mr Hopkins previous (undecipherable) to require or certificate that this money which I suppose is the case has been accounted for.
I am yo P Pierce
Andrew Duscomb Esquire
N B
The Board of Treasury have thought proper that the residue of your papers should be fowarded me by the stage under the case of someone coming this way it being the safest conveyance
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (2 pages) | XZO16 (2 pages) | Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) | B: 370 |
| [view document] (1 pages) | DEL01 (361 pages) | Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) | V134: P. 212 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | John Pierce | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | A.W. Dunscomb | [unknown] | [n/a] |