About This Collection
This series contains auditors accounts for the various state departments. Information in these files includes tax lists, receipts, vouchers, and accounts of money owed Pennsylvania by the federal government. Other notable items are an indentured servant contract and detailed records of judicial fees. Also included in this series are letter books and cash books regarding specific accounts which the auditors were attempting to settle. Depreciation interest books contain records of certificates issued to soldiers. The names, ranks, and regiments of the soldiers can be found therein. Other related files in this series include accounts of the Barrackmaster of Philadelphia, the Superintendent of the Salt Works in Dover, New Jersey, the General Assembly departmental accounts, accounts of the Secretary of the Supreme Executive Council, audits of public accounts, and state taxes cash book. Included in these volumes might be accounts collected and owed within the commonwealth, detailed accounts of expenditures, ledgers containing payment records to various individuals, and account vouchers and receipts. Images are unarranged. This collection is part of the Office of the Comptroller General which was created in 1782.
