John Wereat A.L.S., Mount Hope, 2 July 1789 : to an unidentified "General" [Lachlan McIntosh?], s.l.

John Wereat A.L.S., Mount Hope, 2 July 1789 : to an unidentified "General" [Lachlan McIntosh?], s.l.

Mount Hope, [Ga.] 1789

1 item ; 17 x 20 cm.

MSS L1988.190.138 M

"[I]f you can assist in making the estimate ... rqequired it may be of some service to the State in the final settlement of her accounts with the United States; perhaps Colonel Habersham may be able to give you some assistance.
"I have no knowledge of the business myself, but suppose an estimate of the number of men in the five regiments with the expences of raising, arming, marching and clothing them together with their pay & rations, ammunition, military stores, continencies && is what is wanted ...."
During the Revolution, Wereat had been Georgia's governor; afterwards, served as state auditor from 1782 until 1793.
For details about John Wereat and Georgia's finances, see George. R. Lamplugh, In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 2015.
In 1793, the final settlement of wartime accounts calculated that the balance due Georgia from the U.S. Treasury was just short of $20,000.
Habersham had been a colonel in the 1st Georgia Regiment of the Continental Army and an original member of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati.
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