Concerns Related to Various Accounts
Item
Type
Draft Letter
Title
Concerns Related to Various Accounts
Description
The Commissioner of Army Accounts discusses various concerns related to the accounts of General Mifflin, Col. Brewer and Massachusetts. He wonders how any state can maintain accurate accounts without at least having abstracts of the musters.
short description
Concerns Related to Various Accounts
year created
1787
month created
02
day created
05
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in image
notable person/group
Royal Flint
John Pierce
soldiers
General Thomas Mifflin
officers
Committee
Colonel Samuel Brewer
creditors
Army
Commissioners
soldiers
notable location
New York
Watertown
Massachusetts
notable item/thing
deductions
regimental abstracts
pay
clothing
credit
accounts
money
balance
state
shirts
shoes
hose
receipts
deliveries
dollars
wages
musters
depreciation
document number
1787020537001
page start
1
transcription
New York February
5th 1787
[undecipherable]
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New York Feby 5 1787
Sir
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 23d instant.
I cannot find that any deductions have been made on the
regimental abstracts of 1786 from the pay of the Soldiers for
[undecipherable] received, in conformity [undecipherable]
General Miflin delivered the Men's clothing to the Officers [undecipherable]
man, and was paid for the same by then, but I cannot
and I find that he has given order in hos accounts of
clothing for the [undecipherable] for a quantity carried by them from the Committed
at Water town to the [undecipherable] of pound 6,992.12 5 and led
Marques thus Committed with clothing to the account of
pound 26168 having a ballance of pound 6732 59 [undecipherable].
received from this Committed and [undecipherable] who I suppose
acted for the State. but it appears on probable that
the [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] with that you mention,
because that was delivered in 1875 on [undecipherable] was
probably in 1786, because that it consited for in usually in
shorts shoes & Hose _ and [undecipherable] that Genl. Mifflon has
produced the Officers receipts for his deliveries, [undecipherable]
the [undecipherable] not do if they [undecipherable] with the States.
This information may however be of service
if the States be [undecipherable] this Committees acted for the State.
Cole Saml Brewer in an account settled by him
with the Auditors of the Main Army in Sept. 1778[undecipherable] the States
of Massachusetts with a [undecipherable] Debt from that State.
In the settlement of [undecipherable] of the pay of the Line from
the State of Massachusetts I took up the account only
from January 1781 only, and considered that as the state had
undertaken it, that the whole wages for the year 1780.
wanting what was paid by the State and to [undecipherable] the
[undecipherable - complete line blacked out]
accounts of the Officers fpr the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] without
a recurrance to this Muster, and as settlement
an now arrangement of the accounts from the first
principles [undecipherable] for you the ballance whicj
zje State was authorized to pay, on their answer as
well as how any of the State Commissioners can
determine the proüriety of the payments without
the Ministers or an [undecipherable] from them.
Royal Flint Esquire
5th 1787
[undecipherable]
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New York Feby 5 1787
Sir
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 23d instant.
I cannot find that any deductions have been made on the
regimental abstracts of 1786 from the pay of the Soldiers for
[undecipherable] received, in conformity [undecipherable]
General Miflin delivered the Men's clothing to the Officers [undecipherable]
man, and was paid for the same by then, but I cannot
and I find that he has given order in hos accounts of
clothing for the [undecipherable] for a quantity carried by them from the Committed
at Water town to the [undecipherable] of pound 6,992.12 5 and led
Marques thus Committed with clothing to the account of
pound 26168 having a ballance of pound 6732 59 [undecipherable].
received from this Committed and [undecipherable] who I suppose
acted for the State. but it appears on probable that
the [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] with that you mention,
because that was delivered in 1875 on [undecipherable] was
probably in 1786, because that it consited for in usually in
shorts shoes & Hose _ and [undecipherable] that Genl. Mifflon has
produced the Officers receipts for his deliveries, [undecipherable]
the [undecipherable] not do if they [undecipherable] with the States.
This information may however be of service
if the States be [undecipherable] this Committees acted for the State.
Cole Saml Brewer in an account settled by him
with the Auditors of the Main Army in Sept. 1778[undecipherable] the States
of Massachusetts with a [undecipherable] Debt from that State.
In the settlement of [undecipherable] of the pay of the Line from
the State of Massachusetts I took up the account only
from January 1781 only, and considered that as the state had
undertaken it, that the whole wages for the year 1780.
wanting what was paid by the State and to [undecipherable] the
[undecipherable - complete line blacked out]
accounts of the Officers fpr the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] without
a recurrance to this Muster, and as settlement
an now arrangement of the accounts from the first
principles [undecipherable] for you the ballance whicj
zje State was authorized to pay, on their answer as
well as how any of the State Commissioners can
determine the proüriety of the payments without
the Ministers or an [undecipherable] from them.
Royal Flint Esquire
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | XZM06 (3 pages) | Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) | B:369 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | John Pierce | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Royal Flint | [unknown] | [n/a] |