[PDF] Records Of Revolutionary War Pay Certificates Issued By John Pierce And Benjamin Thompson eBook

Author : New Jersey. Treasury Department
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File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1785
Category : New Jersey
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Documents relating to pay certificates (referred to as "continental certificates" or "final settlement notes", used as currency which often changed hands), issued by John Pierce, U.S. Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts and Benjamin Thompson, Commissioner of Accounts in New Jersey who had the authority by resolution of the Continental Congress to settle accounts with New Jersey citizens who served in the U.S. Army during the American Revolution. Includes booklet containing returns of certificates, issued by Pierce, recording certificate number, check letter, soldiers' name, interest commencement date and amount, etc.; account labeled "A List of Certificates Left at the Treasury Office by John Peck and John Blair, Agents Appointed to Deliver the Said Certificates to the New Jersey Line" containing list of recipients of Pierce's certificates which were either claimed by the soldier or his representative; registry (1786) of Pierce's certificates, with corrections (1789); accounts of yearly interest payments made by the state treasurer on Pierce's notes; and abstracts of accounts of interest paid on PIerce's and Thompson's notes (1785-1791).

Author : United States. War Department. Pay Department
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9780806305271

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Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

Author : New Jersey. Treasury Department
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File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Finance, Public
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Old Loan Office accounts (1776-1780), recording transactions with county loan offices resulting from legislation passed in 1774 authorizing the loan of 1776; register of notes and certificates received of sundry persons, consisting of lists of Revolutionary War payment notes received by the state treasurer (1786-1796), including depreciation notes, militia indents, and list of certificates left at the treasurer's office by John Peck and John Blair, agents appointed to deliver said certificates to the New Jersey line, containing the amount of soldier's pay claimed by either the soldier or his representative during the period 1786-1799, including regiment, certificate, number, etc., together with an account of certificates given to invalids (disabled soldiers) of New Jersey. Also includes "Pierce's, Thompson's, and Loan Office Certificates", documenting interest payments made by State Treasurer James Mott on John Pierce's soldiers' pay notes, Benjamin Thompson's contractors' certificates, and U.S. Continental Loan Office certificates (1790-1791); and register of payments on contractors' certificates, reflecting interest paid by state treasurer Mott on county contractors' certificates (payment notes given to suppliers of military goods and services, 1783-1785).

Author : New Jersey. Treasury Department
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File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Finance, Public
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Old Loan Office accounts (1776-1780), recording transactions with county loan offices resulting from legislation passed in 1774 authorizing the loan of 1776; register of notes and certificates received of sundry persons, consisting of lists of Revolutionary War payment notes received by the state treasurer (1786-1796), including depreciation notes, militia indents, and list of certificates left at the treasurer's office by John Peck and John Blair, agents appointed to deliver said certificates to the New Jersey line, containing the amount of soldier's pay claimed by either the soldier or his representative during the period 1786-1799, including regiment, certificate, number, etc., together with an account of certificates given to invalids (disabled soldiers) of New Jersey. Also includes "Pierce's, Thompson's, and Loan Office Certificates", documenting interest payments made by State Treasurer James Mott on John Pierce's soldiers' pay notes, Benjamin Thompson's contractors' certificates, and U.S. Continental Loan Office certificates (1790-1791); and register of payments on contractors' certificates, reflecting interest paid by state treasurer Mott on county contractors' certificates (payment notes given to suppliers of military goods and services, 1783-1785).

Author : Richard Dwight Prall
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Reference
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Arendt Jansen Prall (ca. 1647-1725) was living at Wiltwyck, New Netherlands (Kingston, New York) by 1663. He married Maria Billiou, niece of Louis DuBois of Wiltwyck, there in 1670. They had eight children. The family moved to Staten Island in 1675, probably to be near Maria's father, Peter Billiou. He died on Staten Island, New York. Known descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, and elsewhere.

Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
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A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.