Ralph Pomeroy A.D.S., Harford, 21st June 1781 : to [Pay Table Committee of Connecticut?]

Ralph Pomeroy A.D.S., Harford, 21st June 1781 : to [Pay Table Committee of Connecticut?]

Estimate of sums wanted by the dep. Quar. Master

Hartford 1781

[1] leaf ; 32 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1989.1.59 M

Ralph Pomeroy served as a Military Paymaster for wages, reimbursement for expenses or loss due to damages during the Revolutionary War. The military finances for the colony of Connecticut were handled by the Pay-Table; thus the assumption of the Committe as the recipient of this documet.|Items mentioned include forage, viz. hay and grain to be deposited at the posts of Hartford Waterbury Danbury Kent & Litchfield, 3,000 pounds; cash advanced for wages of persons employ'd "necessary articles for use at the several posts in this state, 900 punds; immediate expenditures in making the post at Bulls Falls proper for the reception of stores, for repairing boats at Middletown, for Ferriage of the army of France, 900 pounds; for accountring the cavalry of Col. Sheldons Regt. in addition to sums already granted, (no figure attached); and for the contingent expenses for services ... throughout the state (no figure attached)|"The above estimate in specie humbly submitted ...."|Watermark|Pomeroy was an original member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati

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