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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Philadelphia, 19 June, 1780 We do certify that Mordecai Sheftall, esquire, was appointed and acted as Commissary-General of Issues, in and for the State of Georgia, on and from the twenty eight day of July, one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-eight; And that he was in the execution of that office on the twenty-ninth day of December, in the same Year, when the British Troops
took Savannah in Georgia, and him prisoner.(1)
Geo Walton
Edwd Telfair
W Few
Page 349
JUNE 19, 1780
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RC (DNA: PCC, item 78). Written by Walton and signed by Walton, Few, and Telfair. Endorsed by Benjamin Lincoln: "June 27 1780. Mordecai Sheftall Esqr in the list of prisoners which was given me, after the surrender of Savannah was returned as Dy. Commissary Genl of Issues."
1 The Georgia delegates provided Sheftall, who was then in Philadelphia, with this certificate to help verify his service as deputy commissary general of issues for Georgia even though Congress had not confirmed his appointment in 1778. His claim for two years pay and subsistence was honored on July 28 when he received $7,682 from the paymaster general, but his far more complicated request for reimbursement for monies advanced to the army in the southern department in 1778 was delayed by confusion in his accounts. It was not until December 1, after Sheftall pleaded "distressed Circumstances" from "a Long and painful Captivity," that Congress voted an additional $20,000 as part of the "considerable balance due to him." For Sheftall's claims, see JCC, 12:1069-70, 17:572-73, 592, 749, 18:825, 846, 854, 955, 1069-70, 1074, 1079, 1112-13; and PCC, item 41, 9:117-18, item 78, 20:621-41.
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