Report on Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Parnell's Claims

Item

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Title

Report on Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Parnell's Claims

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 investigation into the petition of the late Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Parnell and the support for making a settlement of his claim.

year created

1788

month created

06

day created

05

author

sent from location

Office of Army Accounts, New York

in image

notable person/group

Joseph Howell
Commissioner of Army Accounts
Joseph Pannel
Lieutenant Colonel in the Georgia Line
Major General McIntosh
Secretary at War
Lieutenant Colonel Pannel
Congress
Auditor of the state of Georgia
Colonel L. Egbert
Major John Habersham
Captain John Lucas
Lieutenant Edward Cowan
officers of the Georgia Line
officers
American Army
Colonel Elbert
continental officer
commanding officer
Lieutenant Thomas Glasscock
Georgia Line
Virginia Line
inferior officers
superiors
petitioner

notable location

Office of Army Accounts, New York
Office of Army Accounts
New York
Savannah
War Office

notable item/thing

petition
return
6 February 1784
deranged
resolve of Congress of October 1780
25 March 1785
evidence
return of the officers of the Georgia Line
certified
resigned
1 January 1781
6 July 1786
claim
copy
2 February 1788
knowledge
resignation
1781
report
officer
disbanding of the American Army
certificate
signature
return
commission
certificates
transferred
September 1780
prisoner
pay
belief
invalidate
contradictory evidence
opinion
settlement

document number

1788060521055

page start

21

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) DEA01 (173 pages) Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) V: 138, P: 21-22

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Joseph Howell Office of Army Accounts, New York [n/a]