Troops Paid, Stoppages to Accounts, Accounts Current

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Troops Paid, Stoppages to Accounts, Accounts Current

Description

Paymaster accounts and activities.

short description

Ltr, des pay accounts and activities

year created

1794

month created

09

day created

01

sent from location

Fort Fidius

recipient

in image

note

Cited in Howell to Freeman 11/27/1794. Cited in Howell to Freeman 12/04/1794.

cited note

Cited document addressed to the War Office

notable person/group

Joseph Howell
Constant Freeman
Lieutenant Dalcho
Colonel Gaither
Captain Martin
Captain Dickinson
dead
discharged
agent war department
accountant

notable location

Fort Fidius
Georgia

notable item/thing

pay
paybook
settlements
list of dead
stoppages to pay
payrolls
credit
voucher
refund
travel expense

notable phrase

list of the dead and discharged who have not been paid and whose executors etc. are to apply to your office
balance due to the United States
payrolls
settlement
paymaster
monies
pay & forage of the troops in this country
November 1792
October 1793
account current and the payrolls now transmitted
stoppages
balances due to the United States
refund
voucher
credit of the United States
deductions
made from the rolls for the pay of the discharged men
amount due to the men entitled to their discharges within that period
enabled to pay the troops with greater regularity then heretofore
list of the discharged men paid
memorandum on the account current explained the cause of the deficiency
paybook
Debit
irregular
payments have been made at different posts emote from each other
traveling expenses
give me any instructions upon this subject
request they may very pointed
it would be impossible for a subaltern officer to support himself upon the additional pay of ten dollars
travelling in this country is very expensive and as the money must be sent to the posts, it is best that a person should be employed upon this business who would pay the Detachments
faithfully discharged his duty in this line and should therefore be reimbursed his extra expense

document number

1794090170201

page start

1

number of pages

3

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (3 pages) XFC15 (3 pages) Collection: General Information Index, 1794-1918. (RG94) B: 10; Fidius, Fort, Ga. A.D.W.
[view document] (3 pages) XFC15a (3 pages) Collection: General Information Index, 1794-1918. (RG94) B: 10; Fidius, Fort, Ga. A.D.W.
[view document] (0 pages) [no image] Collection: Citations [unknown]

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Constant Freeman Fort Fidius [n/a]
Recipient Joseph Howell [unknown] [n/a]