Settlement of account of Jones's brother

Item

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Title

Settlement of account of Jones's brother

Description

From the letter book of Joseph Howell, Assistant Commissioner of Army Accounts in the Board of Treasury's Office of Army Accounts.
Discusses the settlement of the account of Jones's brother.

year created

1788

month created

03

day created

28

author

sent from location

Office of Army Accounts, New York

recipient

in image

notable person/group

Captain James M Jones
Joseph Howell
Jones's brother
Captain Jones
recruiting sergeant
drummer
fifer
soldiers
recruits
men
main army
Mrs. Jones
public officer
state of Pennsylvania
Mr. Melcher
deputy barrack master in Philadelphia
Congress
officer
officers
Paymaster General
4th Regiment of Artillery
Captain Thomas Barr
Wiltbergire
Jones's sister
Jones's family

notable location

Office of Army Accounts, New York
Office of Army Accounts
New York
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge

notable item/thing

letters
papers
statement
account
precision
muster roll
company
May 1777
men
return
queries
certainty
opinion
recruiting
rations
recruiting service
headquarters
soldier
monies
cockades
provisions
detachments
march
memorandums
accounts
subsisting
memory
balance due
estate of Captain Jones
statement
balance
charged
United States
pay
August 1778
April 1780
specie
depreciation
company rolls
paid
act of Congress
rations
November 1776
April 1780
charge
rations
subsistence
acts of Congress
army settlements
June 1778
general orders
accounts
settlement
paid
dollars
sum
office
credited
pay
receipt
money
Wiltbergire's account
estate
official capacity
facts
existing acts of Congress
vouchers
application to Congress
claim
last summer

document number

1788032821055

page start

25

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) In image DEA01 (173 pages) In source Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) Location in source V: 138, P: 25-27

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Type Author Name Joseph Howell Location Office of Army Accounts, New York Notes [n/a]
Type Recipient Name James Morris Jones Location [unknown] Notes [n/a]