General Correspondence (PA) 1776-1809

About This Collection

This series includes letters, reports, notes, drafts of letters and accounts, and copies of taxation acts dating from 1776-1809. The majority of the correspondence comes from county tax collectors, other county or militia officers, and state officers asking for the reimbursement of outstanding bills or explaining why their accounts are late or out of order. Also included is correspondence from the U.S. Congress, the Commonwealth Assembly, and the Council of Censors. These letters include requests for payments to various officials, bills for services provided by laborers, and requests for account books to be audited. Extracts from minutes of the Pennsylvania Assembly, Congress, and Council of Censors regarding expenditures, receipts, and orders of payment affecting the Comptroller General are also included. Miscellaneous letters from taxpayers regarding their inability to pay and questioning the rate at which they were taxed, as well as letters from soldier's widows who never received their husbands pay are also contained within this series. The General Correspondence has a rather complex arrangement. For the most part, it is arranged chronologically by the month, day and year letters were written. If there is no date for when they were written, letters are filed by the month, day and year they were received by the Comptroller General. Records that do not note the day they were written or received are filed at the end of the month and year they are dated. If only the year the record was written or received is known, it is filed after December 31 for that year. Copies of records are filed by the date they were copied. If there is no copy date, they are filed under the date of they were received. Correspondence lacking dates entirely is filed under "no date" [n.d.]. If the correspondence was addressed to a Comptroller General, they are filed at the end of his term(s) of office. Undated records without addresses are filed in the back of carton 15. This collection is part of the Office of the Comptroller General which was created in 1782.
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General Correspondence (Roll 4863)
General Correspondence (Roll 4863)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, March 1776-January 15, 1784. The original document scans at the end of this roll of microfilm are of the following: Power of Attorney John Johnson to James Steadman December 19, 1776; Report of Committee on Payments to Clement Biddle, possibly dated sometime around 1777-1783; 1784 Request for Pay; and a 1784 Affidavit Regarding Col. John Piper's Accounts (Bedford County). These documents were found after this collection had been microfilmed.
General Correspondence (Roll 4864)
General Correspondence (Roll 4864)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, January 16, 1784-April 15, 1785. The original document scans at the end of this roll of microfilm are of general correspondence dated April 8, 1785, and a Bill of Costs for 1785 Philadelphia Common Pleas Case; these documents were found after the collection had been microfilmed.
General Correspondence (Roll 4865)
General Correspondence (Roll 4865)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, April 16, 1785-March 31, 1786
General Correspondence (Roll 4866)
General Correspondence (Roll 4866)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, April 1786-October 5, 1786
General Correspondence (Roll 4867)
General Correspondence (Roll 4867)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, October 6, 1786-May 15, 1787
General Correspondence (Roll 4868)
General Correspondence (Roll 4868)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, May 16, 1787-December 31, 1787. The original document scan at the end of this roll of microfilm is a list of costs for 1787 court cases; it was found after the collection was microfilmed.
General Correspondence (Roll 4869)
General Correspondence (Roll 4869)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, December 16, 1787-September 1788
General Correspondence (Roll 4870)
General Correspondence (Roll 4870)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, October 1788-October 1789
General Correspondence (Roll 4871)
General Correspondence (Roll 4871)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, November 1789-August 1790
General Correspondence (Roll 4872)
General Correspondence (Roll 4872)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, September 1790-June 20, 1791
General Correspondence (Roll 4873)
General Correspondence (Roll 4873)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, June 21, 1791-March 1792
General Correspondence (Roll 4874)
General Correspondence (Roll 4874)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, April 1, 1792-December 1792
General Correspondence (Roll 4875)
General Correspondence (Roll 4875)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, January 1793-December 1794, Nicholson Correspondence (undated). The original document scans at the end of this roll of microfilm are of a 1794 request for payment from an estate administrator; it was found after the collection was microfilmed.
General Correspondence (Roll 4876)
General Correspondence (Roll 4876)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, January 1795-May 1798, Nicholson Correspondence (undated)
General Correspondence (Roll 4877)
General Correspondence (Roll 4877)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, June 1798-April 1801
General Correspondence (Roll 4878)
General Correspondence (Roll 4878)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, April 1801-April 1803
General Correspondence (Roll 4879)
General Correspondence (Roll 4879)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, May 1803-June 1804. The original document scans at the end of this roll of microfilm are of a document from the Treasury Department Register’s Office dated May 1804; it was found after the collection was microfilmed.
General Correspondence (Roll 4880)
General Correspondence (Roll 4880)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, July 1804-September 1806
General Correspondence (Roll 4881)
General Correspondence (Roll 4881)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, October 1806-December 1808
General Correspondence (Roll 4882)
General Correspondence (Roll 4882)
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office, Government correspondence, Military correspondence
General Correspondence, January-May 1809, and undated. The original document scans at the end of this roll of microfilm are of the following: Cumberland County Account fragment (date unknown); List of County Committeemen (Revolutionary War); List of Expenses (date unknown); Receipt for Expenses on Public Business (date unknown); and Stephen Duncan Account (County Treasurer). These documents were found after the collection was microfilmed.