This site deals with surnames of the wars of the United States, up to the Civil War, and the civilians of the same era. It will also cover the surnames of the Colonial era. This site is to help all searchers find a lead to their family lines (including Native American ancestors). This site will cover the years from 1700’s to the early 1900’s.
There is one thing That both military services could not do without that was money for pay and other reasons. Being a paymaster sounds like a easy job, not so, and as you read about them you will find it was a hard and some times a dangers job. Some paymasters would be killed for their money, many would be robbed. The paymaster was always accountable for any money that was assigned to him and if for some reason something happen to the money he would have to make it good. Some would never recover from the loss, some even went to prison because of the loss and a few would kill them self for the shame it brought on the family and the loss of everything he owned trying to make good on his loss. Some would turn to Congress and ask for help, some would receive it will others would not.
Note. This information comes from the many department of the Library of Congress.
Note. This information will be in no order so if you are looking for a ancestor, you may want to do a name search.
John Miller, 1810.
This petition was read on January 10, 1823.
John Miller was a paymaster for the District of Augusta, Georgia, in 1810, he received a draft from a man in Savannah, exceeding $15, 000, dollars to pay the troops in the District of Augusta. On his return and within a mile of Augusta his trunk was cut from behind his carriage, and has been unable to regain it back. The trunk was found broken open the morning after the alleged robbery, he is asking Congress for relief.
The finding of the committed: Although the committee have no reason to suspect any fraud, they cannot recommend the case of the petitioner to the favorable consideration of the House. They are satisfied it would lead to the most dangerous consequences to rely upon the general good character of any man in trusted with public money to prove its loss. The committee are also of opinion that relief should not be granted in any case of this kind, without the most ample proof not only of the actual loss of the money, but also that it was lost without any fault or neglect on the part of the claimant. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be not granted.
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Note. I will name all the Paymasters I have, but I will not post all the information I have on some of them. Those that have names only will have information and can be received by asking, my address can be found in my profile.
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Joseph Henderson was a paymaster for the navy in 1778, I will not put his info here, however if you would like I will send it to you.
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Charles T. Larned.
Charles T. Larned,, of Missouri; age 26; born in Michigan, appointment paymaster, in 1861.
Major Charles T. Larned, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
No. other info.
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John Palmer Cox, 1815.
MONEY LOST BY A PAYMASTER OF MILITIA.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEBRUARY 10, 1815.
Mr. YANCEY, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Palmer Cox, of the State of New York, made the following report:
That the petitioner is a paymaster to a regiment of New York militia, commanded by Colonel Anthony P. Lameter, and which, in the month of August last, was stationed at Harlem Heights, in the city of New York; that he had received of the United States several thousand dollars, to pay off the militia, which he had deposited in a small trunk about eighteen inches in length, and which he usually kept locked up in a closet in his bed-chamber, until, by indisposition, he was confined to his bed, when lie had the same brought and placed on the floor of the room, near the side of his bed; that, on the evening of the 31st of October last, the petitioner, and some other officers who lived in the room with him, went to a neighboring house to take tea, leaving the trunk in the room; and, when they returned, it was gone.
It appears from the depositions of Maria and Sophia Grenzeback, which were referred to the committee, that, on the 24th of December last they saw the trunk lying in the bushes, some distance from their father’s house on Harlem Heights; and that, as soon as they saw it, they knew it at a distance to be the trunk of the petitioner. They gave information to their father, who carried the trunk to his house, and sent for a Mr. Henry Post to come and open it, and view its contents. He opened the trunk, and found it contained $137 37-, and many papers belonging to the petitioner.
The petitioner states that he had in the trunk, at the time it was stolen, $2,587. One deponent swears that verily believes that sum was in the trunk when it was taken; and another states that, on the evening the trunk was stolen, he saw the petitioner count the money, and, from the appearance of the bundles of the bills, he believes there was that amount. The petitioner asks relief of Congress.
The committee are of opinion that to the prayer of the petitioner there are several objections:
1. That the loss of the money, and the amount thereof, are not dearly and satisfactorily shown.
2. That the loss, if it actually did take place, was under such circumstances as would constitute negligence on the part of the petitioner.
3. That if the money actually was stolen from the petitioner, without any negligence on his part, the United States would not be liable for it. It is believed they should not be considered the insurers of money in cases of description; the same principle has often been established at the present and last session of Congress. They therefore recommend to the House the following resolution:
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be allowed.
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Washington City, 14th March, 1870.
Passed Assistant Paymaster to be Paymasters.
1. Danforth P. Wight, from Iowa.
2. Henry T. Wright, from Wisconsin.
3. S. D. Hurlbut.
4. George W. Long.
Added info : George W. Long, of Missouri, to be an assistant paymaster in the Navy, from the 22d October, 1868.
Assistant Paymaster George W. Long, to be a passed assistant paymaster in the Navy, from the 10th March, 1870.
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Washington, D. C., March 16, 1869.
Passed Assistant Paymaster to be paymaster in the Navy.
1. Leonard A. Frailey, 29th January, 1869.
2. John H. Stevenson, from New York, 17th February, 1869.
Added info : Washington City, April 11, 1870.
To the Senate of the United States:
In accordance with the provisions of the first section of the act of Congress, approved 24th January, 1865, I nominate Paymaster John H. Stevenson to be advanced fifteen numbers in his grade for extraordinary heroism during the war of the rebellion, as particularly set forth in the accompanying report from Capt. M. B. Woolsey, United States Navy, so as to take rank from the 4th of May, 1866.
3. George E. Hendee, from Massachusetts, 27th February, 1869.
4. J. P. Loomis, 29th January, 1869.
5. H. T. B. Harris, From New York, 17th February, 1869.
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John T. David, 1814.
John T. David, was of the 15th, regiment infantry and was being sued by the United States for $29,003.55, dollars which he claimed was lost in a fire in his room in Philadelphia, on March 7, 1814.
Note. This info is too long for this page, but the info, will be sent to any one who would like a copy.
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Zachariah Schoonmaker, 1813.
MONEY LOST BY AN ARMY PAYMASTER.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY
29, 1816.
Mr. YANCEY, from the Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the petition and documents of Zachariah Schoonmaker, of the State of New York reported:
That the petitioner was a paymaster to the second regiment of volunteer militia of the State of New York, a part of which was stationed at Fort Richmond, on Staten island and a part at Sandy Hook, in the month of October, 1813; that, on the 8th day of that month, the petitioner received of the district paymaster a check on the Bank of America for the sum of $9,000, which was paid him at the bank in three and ten dollar notes; that he paid to the troops stationed at Fort Richmond the sum of $4,159 95, and immediately proceeded to Sandy Hook, for the purpose of paying the troops at that place; that,’ before he left the fort, he had put the money which remained in his possession into a small trunk, which, for safe-keeping, he deposited in a large trunk, and kept the keys of the same himself. When he arrived at Sandy Hook, he discovered that he had lost from his trunk the sum of $2,256, in which were included all the ten dollar notes and a part of the three dollar notes.. Of that sum, $810, all in ten dollar notes, was afterwards found in a pile of sand in Fort Hudson; but the petitioner states that the balance,- to wit, $1,436, he has entirely lost. The petitioner prays of Congress to be remunerated for the loss.
This case was presented at the second session of the last (thirteenth) Congress, and the committee were then of the opinion that the petitioner was not entitled to relief: [report 10th March, 1814, which was burnt at the destruction of the Capitol on the 24th August, 1814.] The principle has often been adopted, and which this committee are persuaded is correct, that, when a paymaster has received money from the United States, to discharge a debt which the Government owes to its soldiery, and for which he receives an adequate compensation, he must be considered liable for the risk of the money, as well as its faithful and honest application. If the loss were produced by some inevitable accident, such as capture by an enemy, or some other unforeseen event, and which it would not be in the power of human diligence and wisdom to prevent or control, it would present a fit case for the equitable consideration and interference of Congress; but, in a case situated like the present, it is believed that sound policy and correct principles require that the party should abide by the contract he has made with the Government, and be held accountable for the money. The committee, therefore, recommend to the House the following resolution: Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted.
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James Johnson, 1813.
In 1813, James Johnson was made a paymaster, by Colonel Richard M Johnson, who command a regiment of mounted infantry. James Johnson performed his service during the summer and fall of 1813, on the frontier of the State of Ohio, including Fort Wayne, Fort Meige, Lower Sandusky, Brownstown and Detroit; that, during this service, which lasted six months, the regiment had to furnish themselves with rations, a portion of the time, at their own expense, on account of the impracticability of furnishing the rations on the part of the Government.
Note. What this petition is about is that the Johnson paid a estimate of 25 cents per ration and forage per day for 1,000, men which the regiment was made of, However if the rations had been under contractors or the agents of the Government the cost would have been 22, cents per man, Johnson was asking Congress to make up the deferent’s so he could be pay back.
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Joseph C. Boyd, 1813.
Joseph C. Boyd, was District paymaster for the United States Army, station at Portland in the State of Maine.
Washington City, 18 July, 1868.
Assistant Paymaster to be -Passed Assistant Paymaster and Passed Assistant Paymaster to be Paymasters, Navy.
1. R. W. Allen, 1st February, 1868.
2. Henry M. Meade, 9th April, 1868, dismissed in 1872
3. Frank Clark, 5th June, 1868.
4. A. D. Bache, 11th June, 1868.
5. John MacMahon, of Massachusetts, 11th December 1868.
6. Theodore S. Thompson, of Massachusetts 1st February 1868.
7. Wm. J. Thomson, 20 March, 1868.
8. Henry G. Colby, of Vermont, 9 April, 1868.
9. John R. Carmody, 5 June, 1868.
10. J. Bayard Redfield, of Michigan, 11 June 1868.
The Men they replaced.
1. Raymaster H. Bridge, transferred to the retired list.
2. R. H. Douglas, deceased, had been paymaster, 24th August, 1862.
3. Charles C. Upham.
Added info . Washington, 26th July, 1852, Charles C. Upham, of Vermont, to be a purser in the Navy. Upham died between 1852 and 1868.
4. R. P. Lisle, promoted.
5. S. S. Wood, jr., resigned.
6. Charles S. Perley, of Massachusetts, resigned.
Note. The last four are on the above list.
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John P. Carey and Edward Carey, 1813.
DEFALCATION OF AN ARMY PAYMASTER.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON THE 31st OF JANUARY, 1823.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of North Carolina, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Carey, of Georgia, reported:
That the petitioner represents that his brother, John P. Carey, was appointed in 1813 paymaster to part of a detachment of Georgia militia in the service of the United States, under the command of General John Floyd; that, before the settlement of his accounts at the Treasury, the said paymaster died. It devolved on the petitioner to endeavor to bring the accounts of the deceased to a close. After much trouble and expense, he has succeeded in procuring a settlement of the accounts, except $923 86, which has been disallowed. This amount, exclusive of about $100, consists of payments made to officers for the use and risk of their horses, and for the hire of servants, which has been disallowed as payments made contrary to law.
The petitioner produces affidavits from officers of the first respectability to show the grounds upon which these payments were made. General Floyd certifies that Mr. Carey, the paymaster, was directed to be governed by the advice of Major Hamlin Cook, then a district paymaster in the service of the United States, and who was present at the time the payments were made; that the payments were in conformity to the construction given to the law by Major Cook, and the other officers present on the occasion. To the same effect, also, is the rest of the evidence exhibited in this case. The petitioner therefore asks Congress to pass a law, directing the allowance of such payments as were made to the ,troops then in service, and which have been since suspended in consequence of their illegality.
The committee think this claim ought not to be allowed. Paymasters are bound to know the law under which they act. If ignorance of its provisions could be pleaded as an excuse or justification for a violation of the law, there would be no rule obligatory on any portion of the community that might be disposed to commit transgressions either of a civil or criminal nature. By a reference to the list of suspended items1 it will be seen that, in some instances, payments have been made twice to the same person; in others, by errors in addition, greater amounts were paid to officers and soldiers than they were entitled to receive. It seems to the committee as reasonable to allow the petitioner for his blunders in arithmetic, his inaccurate calculations, as to grant him indemnity against payments he made in violation of the law. The following resolution is submitted to the House:
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted.
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Lieutenant Simeon Knight 1809.
Lieutenant Simeon Knight, was a District paymaster to a detachment of the army, and claims credit for the sum of $1,454.40, dollars, which he pay to Brigadier General Wilkinson for additional rations, which was disallowed by the accounting office on the grounds that the payment had been unauthorized by law. Because of a missunderstanding between the Secretary of War and Wilkinson and the President of the United States. A Bill, was made for the credit of Lituetenant Knight.
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Major Abram Beeler.
A BILL.
March 4, 1872.
For the settlement of the accounts of Major Abram Beeler, late paymaster of United States Volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting-officers in the Third Auditor’s office of the
Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the account of Major Abram Beeler, late paymaster of United States Volunteers, and credit him with such amount and items as stand charged against him, and which they may reasonably believe he could have accounted for and had credited to his account had he not been suddenly killed by guerrillas, while in the discharge of his duty, on the twenty-seventh of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
I am the direct descendant of Major Abram Beeler, who you outlined in your webpage. He was killed on the Mississippi River, at Randolph Landing, Tennessee by Confederate Soldiers commanded by Jesse Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s brother, on October 27, 1864. Thanks for posting the info about the U.S. Senate and House of Rep. forgiving his debt since he was killed in action. FYI, he fought at Shilo, second day, Union Center, and at Stones River, Right Wing of the Union Army.
F. A. Cunningham.
AN ACT.
July 19, 1856
For the relief of F. A. Cunningham, paymaster United States army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of .1merica in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of F. A. Cunningham, paymaster of the United States army, to allow him a credit in the sum of thirty-six thousand and eighty-five dollars, of which sum of public money he was robbed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
Passed the Senate April 11, 1856.
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Adjutant-General's Office,
Washington, 7 May, 1834.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES.
1. Nathan Towson, paymaster-general, to be reappointed, to take effect the 8th May, 1834.
2. David S. Townsend, paymaster, to be reappointed, to take effect the 29th April, 1834.
Added info . Was paymaster to the 5th, Battalion of artillery, Wife’s name Eliza Gerry Townsend.
3. William Piatt, paymaster, to be re-appointed, to take effect 20th May, 1834.
4. Timothy P. Andrews, paymaster, to be reappointed, to take effect 22d May, 1834.
5. Thomas Wright, paymaster, to be reappointed, to take effect 22d June, 1834.
6. Daniel Randall, paymaster, to be reappointed, to take effect 21st July, 1834.
7. Lewis G. De Russey, paymaster, to be reappointed, to take effect 21st September, 1834.
Note. There is a lot of info on these men, but it will be up to you to decided if the info gose with the above names. If there is a name here you would like to know more about you can find my address in my profile.
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November 15th, 18th, 1814.
Agreeably to the provisions of the of the act of the 18th of April, 1814, authorizing the appointment of Assistant District Paymasters, the Paymaster of the Army has the honor of laying before the President of the United States, for his nomination to the Senate, the names, to be Assistant District Paymasters in the Army.
1. Henry Robinson of the State of Vermont.
2. Charles B. Talmadge, of the State of New York. In 1818, paymaster of Light Artillery. In 1830 was appointed for four more years.
3. Archibald Dobbin, of Maryland.
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Paymasters of the Civil War.
1. Major Rodney Smith, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
2. Major William A. Rucker, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
3. Major Robert C. Walker, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
4. Major George Pomeroy, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
4. Major Justus Steinberger, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
5. Major William R. Gibson, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
6. Major Thomas H. Halsey, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
7. Major William B. Rochester, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
8. Major Henry B. Reese, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
9. Major John L. Hodge, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
10. Major Charles J. Sprague, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
11. Major Nicholas Vedder, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
12. Major Edwin D. Judd, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
13. Major Valentine C. Hanna, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
14. Major William Smith, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
15. Major John W. Smith, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services daring the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
16. Major Charles M. Terrell, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
17. Major Thaddeus H. Stanton, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the wart to date from March 2, 1867.
18. Major George E. Glenn, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
19. Major Jacob E. Burbank, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
20. Major Brautz Mayer, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
21. Major James W. Nicholls, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
22. Major Robert D. Clarke, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
23. Major James H. Nelson, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
24. Major John S. Walker, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
25. Major Charles W. Wingard, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
26. Major James P. Canby, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
27. Major Peter P. G. Hall, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
28. Major George W. Candee, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
29. Major Edmund H. Brooke, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
30. Major Israel O. Dewey, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
31. Major Samuel A. Pearce, jr., paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 9, 1867.
32. Major James R. Mears paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1867.
33. Major Thomas S. Allison, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from April 1, 1867.
34. Major Frank M. Etting, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from April 13, 1867.
35. Major Robert Morrow paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from May 9, 1867.
36. Major Isaac S. Stewart, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from October 18, 1867.
37. Major Dwight Bannister, paymaster United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 3, 1868.
38. Brevet Major Sumner H. Lincoln, first lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
39. Brevet Major Andrew P. Caraher, first lieutenant in the Forty-third Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
40. Brevet Major William J. L. Nicodemus, captain in the Twelfth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in New Mexico in 1862, and with the Army of the Potomac in 1863, to date from March 13, 1865.
41. Brevet Major Charles McClure, captain and commissary of subsistence United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services in the field with the Army of the Potomac in 1862, to date from August 17, 1866.
42. Brevet Major John M. Duffy, captain in the Twenty-second Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn., to date from March 13, 1865.
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Civil War.
Here are the Names of 17, Paymasters that have Photographs.
If you would like a photo let me know, you can find my address in my profile.
There may be some added information to go along with the photo.
1. Major F. Brown.
2. Major D. McClure.
3. Major J. Howard.
4. Major L. E. Johnson.
5. Major W. J. Martin.
6. S. U. Holliday.
7. Major G. B. Ely.
8. Z. K. Pangborn
9. Major W. S. Stryker.
10. Major Edward C. Morse.
11. Paymaster M. Howland, 7th, N. Y. S. M.
12. Major O. Holman.
13. F. W. Crane.
14. Major W. P. Could.
15. A. W. Fletcher
16, Major M. F. Webb
17. Major J. W. Beazell.
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1779.
1. William Palfrey, paymaster general.
2. Benjamin Harrison, Jun. deputy paymaster general in Virginia.
3. Joseph Clay, deputy paymaster general in South Carolina
4. John Pierce, Esq. deputy paymaster general
No info.
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F. F. Stevens
AN ACT
June 27, 1868.
For the relief of Major F. F. Stevens, assistant paymaster United States army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Paymaster General’s office and the Treasury Department in. the settlement of the accounts of Major F. F. Stevens, late an assistant pay-master of the United States army, credit to him the sum
three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents as of the first April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, for the cause that that amount of public money
in his hands on that day was lost by the burning of the steamer Alabama, on the Mississippi river: Provided, That in the opinion of said accounting officers the said allowance should be made.
Passed the House of Representatives June 27, 1868.
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James G. Holland.
AN ACT
March 27, 1866.
For the relief of James G. Holland, late acting assistant paymaster United States navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State$ of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to credit James G. Holland, late acting assistant paymaster of the navy of the United States, with the sum of five hundred dollars, in the settlement of the accounts of said Holland with the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury; such credit to be given to said Holland for the sum of five hundred dollars in treasury notes of the United States lost and destroyed without any fault or neglect on the part of said Holland: Provided, That the final order for the allowance of the said credit shall not be made until the whole subject connected with the said alleged loss shall be fully investigated by the Fourth Auditor, and he shall certify thereto.
Passed the House of Representatives March 23, 1866.
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George Plunkett was reappointed paymaster of the navy in 1871.
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Rufus C. Spalding
AN ACT
January 19, 1867.
For the relief of Rufus C. Spalding, paymaster in the United
States navy.
Be it enacted bi1 the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, in adjusting the accounts of Rufus C. Spalding, as paymaster in the navy of the United States, to cause the said Spalding to be credited with the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-three cents, being the sum of money stolen from the government safe at the naval station at Mound City, Illinois, on the night of the twenty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, which sum stands charged to his account as United States paymaster at said naval station: Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to exempt from official or personal liability, or upon his bond, Assistant Paymaster J. S. Harvey.
Passed the House of Representatives January 19, 1867.
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Conrnelius B. Gold was a acting assistant paymaster of the navy, he was asking for credit for $510.9 dollars, the amount of the clothing abstracted from a store room in his charge at Mobile Bay in the summer of 1865.
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Horace M. Hieskell
AN ACT
May 2, 1862,
For the relief of Horace M. Hieskell, a paymaster in the United States navy.
Whereas Horace M. Hieskell was attached as paymaster to the United States receiving ship “Pennsylvania,” at Norfolk, Virginia, at the time, to wit, on the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, when said ship was burned by order of the government or the commander of the station; whereas said Horace M. Hieskell, as paymaster aforesaid, is charged by the department with sundry items for provisions, clothing, and small stores, which goods were destroyed when said ship was burned: Therefore:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Horace M. Hieskell be credited on the books of the department with the amount of such goods charged against him.
Passed the House of Representatives May 2, 1862.
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Henry M. Hyde was a assistant paymaster for the navy after his death his wife Margaret A Hyde ask for a pension, her pension was the same as her husbands pay.
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Stephen Baxter.
A BILL
FEBRUARY 4, 1820.
For the relief of Stephen Baxter, late Paymaster of the Third Regiment of New York Volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to settle the accounts of Stephen Baxter, late paymaster of the third regiment of New York volunteers, upon the principles of justice and equity; and to allow him such credits as may appear due for moneys advanced to the troops in the service of the United States: Provided, however, That the allowance as aforesaid shall not exceed the amount advanced to him by the government of the United States.
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Richard Washington.
A BILL.
APRIL 3, 1871.
For the relief of Richard Washington, a paymaster in the United States Navy.
Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of Richard Washington, a paymaster in the United States Navy, with such debits now standing against him on the books of the Treasury Department as he may show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy have not been used for his personal benefit.
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William H. Jameson
A BILL.
JUNE 23, 1864.
For the relief of William H. Jameson, a paymaster in the United States army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, required to allow Major William H. Jameson, on settlement of his accounts, a credit of nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fourteen cents, for
money in his hands as paymaster in the army, on board the steamer Ruth, and destroyed by fire on the night of the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
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I can’t put up all the Bills and Acts of all the Paymasters I have so I will list those that have one or the other, if you see a name and would like to see the Bill or act, you can write to me and I will be happy to send you a copy.
1. Major John A. Whitall
2. Major Benjamin Alvord
3. George F. Cutter
4. E. C. Doran
5. J. B. Rittenhouse
6. Major N. S. Brenton
7. Adam D. Stuart
8, William Gibbes
9. Major Jeremiah Y. Dashield
10. J. George Harris
11. Elisha W. Dunn
12. McKean Buchanan
13. Joseph McClure
14. Major J. W. Nichols
15. Benjamin F. Browne
16. Major D. P. Heap
17. Thomas Phenix Jr.
18. N. Towson
19. Major Jeremiah T. Dashiell
20. Colonel Daniel Randall
21. William Estis
22. George Plunkett
23. George B. Way
24. Henry Etting
25. James Fulton
26. George E. Glenn
27. Lewis B. Willis
28. James V. Boughner
29. Major A. L. Brewer