Enclosure: Lafayette’s Revolutionary War Account, 24 December 1793
Enclosure
Lafayette’s Revolutionary War Account
[24 December 1793]
Marquis de la Fayette
| Dollars | ||||
| Received of Mr Trumbull1 the 31st March 1778 on his private account | 1700. | |||
| He paid in May 1778, to Capn Celeron2 | 80. | |||
| Leaving this sum to be accounted for, to be reduced at 5 for one, | 1620. | |||
| will equal specie | Dollars | 324. | ||
| His pay as Major General from the 31st July 1777 to the 31st | ||||
| December 1780, 41 months & 1 day a[t] 166 dollars p. Month | 6811. | 48 | ||
| Deduct as above stated | 324. | |||
| Balance on interest from the 1st Jany 1781 | 6487. | 48/90 | ||
| His pay for the year 1781 on interest 1st Jany 1782 | 1992. | |||
| His pay for the year 1782 interest 1st Jany 1783 | 1992. | |||
| His pay from the 1st Jany to the 3d Nov: 1783 | 1676. | 54 | ||
| Commutation of 5 years full pay in lieu of half during life | 9960. | |||
| Dollars | 11.636. | 54/90 | ||
| Summary | ||||
| Balance to the 1st Jany 1781 | 6487. | 48 | ||
| Pay of the year 1781 | 1992. | |||
| Pay of 1782 | 1992. | |||
| Ditto 1783 & commutn | 11,636. | 54 | ||
| To extra pay, while on separate command, suppose on year | ||||
| the precise time to be ascertained a future period | 1992. | |||
| Dollars | 24100. | 12/90 | ||
War Department Accountants office December 24th 1793
Signed Joseph Howell Accountant.
Copy, DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; copy, DNA: RG 46, Transcribed Reports and Communications Transmitted by the Executive Branch to the U.S. Senate, 1789–1819. War Department Chief Clerk John Stagg, Jr., certified that the account was a “Copy—Original on file in the war office.”
1. Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (1740–1809), served as Continental paymaster general for the northern department from 1775 to 1778. In 1793 he was a congressman from Connecticut, and he later became a senator and governor of that state.
2. Paul-Louis Céloron de Blainville (b. 1753) became a lieutenant in the Continental army in 1777 and was promoted to captain in 1778. He was captured at Charleston in 1780 and resigned his commission in 1782.