Autograph Letter Signed

Various Account Issues

Discusses various account issues with Charles Harrison for his service during the Revolutionary War.

Various account issues

1786

12

19

New York

unknown

Charles Harrison

John Pierce

Dunscomb

Colonel Carrington

Congress

Officers of Artillery

New York

pay and subsistence

examination

accounts

evidence

muster pay

artillery

resolution of July 18

money

depreciation

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New York Jany 23d 1787
Sir
A claim being presented to me for your pay & subsistence for the year 1783, [illegible] has occasioned an examination into your account as settled with Mr [illegible] _ and I find that he has omitted charging you with a sum of money received by you from Col Carrington in the year 1780 - probably because you had accounted for it in some other [illegible]; but as I have no evidence of it, the same account [illegible] charge against you, [illegible] you [illegible] [illegible] is sufficient [illegible] reason for the contrary. that I find also that he has allowed you 60 Dols & [illegible] pay as commanding the artillery probably under the Resolution of July 18, 1779, which being made in the old [illegible] is not more than considered [illegible] as opend. in the said for which reason [illegible] on the 12th of Jany 1781 stated the [illegible] pay of the commanding Officer of Artiley at 40 Dols monthly: but omitted any provision for the Officers in the other departments, which leaves them in the situation they were before, on the old money establishment. this money then being reduced to [illegible] about 10 for one by depreciation would [illegible] your allowance to be a very small sum. & I therefore omitted it in [illegible] of your amount here enclosed.
The last charge against you in that account is
sum which it appears that you have twice drawn. Your subsistence up to Aug [illegible] 1783 which you attested agreeable to your attestation is due you - has been drawn.
I am Sir your
Obedient
[illegible] Harrison