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Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783
Guide to the materials for American history to 1783 Author:Charles McLean Andrews Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A. O. Accounts, etc., Various. AUDIT OFFICE PAPERS. The Audit Off1ce was in New Palace Yard, Westminster, and in 3 Whitehall Yard before it was removed... more » to Somerset House, whence its papers were transferred to the Public Record Office in December, 1859. In addition to the general series of " Declared Accounts ", a printed list of which was issued in 1893 and which are here entered separately, the Audit Office records include the following volumes and bundles containing material for colonial history. In a number of instances the accounts are but duplicates of the Declared Accounts. ACCOUNTS, VARIOUS. 10-11. Admiralty Court; Accounts of Prize Pro- ceeds: American. 1813-1816. 55. 1776-1784. Accounts of Payments to For- eign Troops, with Musters, Pay-Lists, and other subsidiary documents: Hes- sians. An account of the extraordinary expenses, to be made good by the British government, for the corps of Hessian troops from 1776 to 1784. The claim appears to have been presented in 1790 by P. and C. Van Notten, and amounted to £163,926 $s. 6d. The letter of the comptroller of the army is dated 1794. The reports, letters, and itemized accounts, all in English, deal with a great variety of interesting and valuable details, touching extraordinary expenses, including sickness and hospital charges, cost of repairs to guns, travelling expenses, postage, and the like. One of the most important schedules contains lists of the losses of the officers and others at the battle of Trenton, money, baggage, and personal effects. 126-128. 1711-1819. Miscellaneous Accounts of Governors and others in America, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc., with subsidiary documents. 126. (1). The Account of James Oglethorpe, general and commander- in-chief of His Majesty's forces in South Carolin...« less