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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

American State Papers --INDEX TO CLAIMS.

American State Papers [Claims: Volume 1] : Index
INDEX TO CLAIMS.

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• Abbot, Samuel, claim of, for arrears of pay, report of committee in favor of the ... 199
• Abel, Cuthbert, claim of allowed ... 392
• Accounts of an army contractor, statement of the ... 781, 791
• Ackerman, David, claim of inadmissible ... 180
• Adams, John Carel, claim of allowed ... 403
• Adams, Jonas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Adams, Nathan, seven years' half pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Adams, Samuel, report of committee against the claim of for a balance due to a company of militia ... 676
• Adams, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Adams, Winborn, Lieutenant Colonel, seven years' half pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Adamson, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 403
• Adamson, George, claim of allowed ... 403
• Adlington, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Admiralty, High Court of in England, minutes of the judgment on the claim of R. Elwell, in the case of the ship Huntress ... 364
• Admiralty and navy boards, resolve of Congress appointing an agent of the marine in lieu of the ... 705
• Adoms, James, claim of allowed ... 388
• Adoms, Richard, claim of allowed ... 400
• Advances to a regiment of militia, report of committee against the claim of R. Hill for ... 538

  Report of committee of Senate in favor of said claim ... 671

  To pay off discharged soldiers. Report of committee in favor of the claim of the Planters'

  Bank of New Orleans for ... 816

  To a deputy commissary general. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of J. Morrison for ... 821

  Report of committee in favor of allowing interest to Daniel D. Tompkins on certain ... 884

  And disbursements. Report of committee against the claim of a deputy commissary of purchases for ... 886

  Made by a deputy commissary of purchases, statement of certain ... 887

• Agent for negotiating a commercial treaty with Morocco, compensation made to the ... 24
• Aiken, Andrew, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Airs, George, claim of for an invalid pension ... 86
• Albro, Clarke, an invalid pensioner ... 60, 118, 152
• Alcock, Martin, claim of allowed ... 404
• Alden, Judah, captain, half-pay not allowed to the heirs of ... 72
• Aldrich, Caleb, applicant for a pension ... 159
• Aldrick, Elisha, claim of allowed ... 398
• Aldridge Esek, claim of for an invalid pension ... 118
• Alexander, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 397
• Alexander, Hugh, and others, report of committee in favor of the claim of to be relieved from a second payment of certain moneys to an unauthorized agent ... 273
• Alexander, John, claim of allowed ... 392, 395
• Alexander, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 396
• Alexander, Thomas, an invalid pensioner ... 58, 109, 150
• Allen, Andrew, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Allen, George, claim of allowed ... 400
• Allen, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 395
• Allen, Jacob, seven years' half pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Allen, Jeremiah, claim for depreciation on certain "new emission bills," report of committee against the ... 215
• Allen, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 393
• Allen, Walley, claim of allowed ... 391
• Allen, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Allen, Zeno, claim of for materials, &c. for the erection of barracks, report of committee against the ... 839
• Alliance, claim for advances made on the frigate, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on a ... 342
• Allis, Henry, claim of allowed ... 404
• Allison, Amey, claim of inadmissible ... 180
• Allison, Joseph, claim of inadmissible ... 180
• Ally, Moses, claim of for indemnity for the loss of a horse, report of committee against the ... 439
• Almond, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• Alricks, William, clerk, claim of for further compensation, report of committee against the ... 79
• Alshouse, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103
• Alverson, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Ames, Spafford, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110, 150
• Ammonds, Joshua, claim of allowed ... 396
• Amonet, Charles, claim of allowed ... 393
• Amsden, Silas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 87
• Anderson, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 390
• Anderson, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Anderson, John, claim for expenses in calling out the militia inadmissible ... 428
• Anderson, John, claim of for a house burnt while occupied by the troops of the United States, report of committee in favor of the ... 535

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• Anderson, Thomas, claim of allowed 399
• Anderson, William, claim of allowed ... 391
• Anderson, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• André, John, major, report of committee against increasing the annuities of the captors of ... 500
• Andrews, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 390
• Andrews, Joseph, seven years' half pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Andrews, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112
• Andrus, Clement, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Andrus, Samuel, applicant for a pension ... 153
• Andrus, Theodore, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Anguish, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 400
• Annuity, claim of J. Paulding for an increase of, report of committee against the ... 500

  Claim of the widow and children of A. H. Dohrman for an, report of committee in favor of the ... 508

• Anspach, Peter, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate not allowed ... 177
• Anthony, Charles, claim of allowed ... 397
• Apperson, Richard, claim of allowed ... 397
• Applebee, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Appleton, John, assessor of direct taxes, claim of for an increase of compensation, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the ... 442
• Appleton, Nathan, commissioner of loans, claim of for office rent and loss of a horse, report of committee in favor of the ... 147
• Apply, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 405
• Appling, Rebecca C., claim of for prize money due to her late husband, report of committee in favor of the ... 678
• Arbitration, claim of the representatives of Comfort Sands recommended for ... 669
• Archer, Francis, claim of allowed ... 405
• Archer, Samuel, claim of for forage disallowed ... 429
• Arms, report of committee on the claim of a contractor for the delivery of ... 594

  Lost in the service, report of committee against paying for ... 734

• Armstrong, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 395
• Armstrong, Robert, claim of allowed ... 400
• Armstrong, Samuel, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against receiving in payment of his balance as army paymaster, public securities ... 7
• Army commissioners' certificates. (See certificates.)
• Arnold, William, claim of for the renewal of a lost loan office certificate, rejected by the Auditor of the Treasury ... 258

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of ... 441

• Arrears of pay, claims of Thomas Hunt, John Fox, and Henry Bacon for, report of the Secretary of War on the ... 68

  Mode for preventing abuse in settling future claims for, submitted by the Secretary of War ... 69

  Officers of the late army and navy entitled to, report of committee on a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for a list of all the ... 182

  Claim of Michael Van Kleek for, report of the Secretary of War against the ... 194

  Claim of Samuel Abbot and others for, report of committee against the ... 199

  Claim of S. Brown for, report of committee granting leave to withdraw the ... 235

  Claim of H. Foster for, report of committee against the ... 368

  Claim of E. Brooke for, report of committee against the ... 410

  Claim of a British officer for, report of committee rejecting the ... 584

  Claim of Asa Turney for, report of committee against the ... 640

  Claim of J. Polhemus for, report of committee against the ... 651

  Claim of H. Bedinger for, report of committee against the ... 701

  Claim of the heirs of the Baron de Kalb for, reports of committee against the ... 702, 758

  Claim of the heirs of a deputy quartermaster general for, report of committee against the ... 706

  Claim of S. Tucker for, report of committee in favor of the ... 760

  Claim of T. White for, barred by the statute of limitation ... 845

  Claim of C. Childs, report of committee against the ... 874

• Arrears of pension, report of the Secretary of War of the entire number of claimants, and the amount of claims for ... 56

  Report of committee suggesting measures to be adopted previous to placing claimants for on the pension list ... 78

  Not allowed except to officers who have first returned their commutation ... 134

  Report of committee against granting in any case when the applicant has been placed on the pension list by virtue of the act of February 28, 1793

  Overpaid to J. Snowden, report of committee granting him leave to retain ... 334

  Claim of Susannah Machin for, report of committee against the ... 497

• Artificers, (artillery,) report of the Secretary of War against allowing the commutation of half pay to the officers of the regiment of ... 9
• Artis, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 405
• Artis, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Atkinson, John, claim of for expenses in calling out the militia inadmissible ... 428
• Atkinson, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Attorney General, letter of the on the subject of an agreement between J. Swan and the Secretary of the Treasury ... 271

  Opinion of the on the claim of the representatives of Caron de Beaumarchais for supplies furnished to the United States ... 344, 434

  Opinion of the on the claim of Robert Elwell for damage to a vessel chartered by the United States, and captured for want of necessary documents ... 363

  Opinion of the on the claim of J. Shattuck for illegal capture and loss of a vessel and cargo ... 419

  Opinion of the on the claim of T. Cutts for loss on the purchase of a vessel illegally sold for the benefit of the United States ... 433

  Opinion of the on the accounts of James Thomas, a quartermaster general ... 649

  Opinion of the on the claim of Caze and Richard, for property lost by the burning of a United States vessel ... 666

  Opinion of the in relation to acts of Congress, touching the claims of commissioned officers to be placed on the pension list ... 75

  Opinion of the on the claim of Peter Perrit for commutation ... 184

  Opinion of the on the construction of the second section of the act of May, 1820, in relation to pensions ... 893

• Attwater, Reuben, claim of for extra services as Secretary of the Michigan Territory, report of committee in favor of the ... 420
• Atwood, Francis, claim of allowed ... 397
• Audebert Philip, report of committee in favor of the claim of for extra pay for services as a clerk ... 124
• Audy, Charles, claim of allowed ... 398

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• Aunable, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Austin, Caleb, claim of for a pension ... 138
• Austin, Daniel, claim of for depreciation of certain new emission bills. Inadmissible. ... 179, 215
• Austin, James, claim of allowed ... 393, 400
• Austin, Joseph, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Austin, Loring, a major in the army, claim of for indemnity against certain judicial proceedings, report of committee in favor of the ... 545
• Award of arbitrators. (See Comfort Sands and others.)
• Ayott, Louis, claim of for supplies furnished the army at Quebec, report of committee in favor of the ... 83
• Ayres, Frederick, claim of allowed ... 392
• B.
• Babcock, Phineas, claim of for supplies furnished to the army, report of committee against the ... 760
• Babcock, Primus, claim of allowed ... 403
• Bacon, Henry, claim of for arrears of pay, report of the Secretary of War on the ... 68
• Baggs, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 60, 118, 152
• Bagley, Azor, claim of allowed ... 406
• Bagley, Azor. claim of for indemnity for loss by fraud on two final settlement certificates ... 203
• Bailey, Ephraim, claim of for an invalid pension ... 151
• Bailey, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• Bailey, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 402
• Bailey, Joseph, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 387, 396
• Bailey, Nathaniel, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 399
• Bailey, Reuben, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 402
• Bailey, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 389
• Baker, Jane, widow of Captain Thomas Baker, report of committee against granting a pension to ... 755
• Baker, Joseph, claim of for property destroyed by the troops in 1799 ... 361
• Baker, Joseph, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 395
• Baker & Miller, claim of for a house burnt while occupied by the troops of the United States, report of a committee in favor of the ... 547
• Baker Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Baker William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 404
• Balances against public officers, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against receiving public securities in payment thereof ... 7

  Credits on the books of the Treasury, barred by limitation acts, recommended to be provided for by law ... 333

  Claim of S. Q. Adams for, due to a company of militia, report of committee against the ... 676

• Balch, Benjamin, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 388, 390
• Baldwin, Silas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 112
• Baldwin, William J., claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 404
• Ball, Joseph, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bill, not allowed ... 180, 215
• Ball, Mottrom, claim of for property destroyed by the enemy, report of committee in favor of the ... 589
• Ball, Samuel. claim of for a pension ... 61, 119, 155
• Ballard, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 388
• Ballinger, Amariah, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 391
• Balsle, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144
• Baltimore, report of committee in favor of granting indemnity for loss of vessels sunk for the defence of ... 741
• Bancroft, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 87, 165
• Bancroft, Robert, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 401
• Banister, Artener, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792, 403
• Bankson, Benjamin, claim of for extra pay as a clerk, report of committee in favor of the ... 124
• Baptist, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 398
• Barbee, Elijah, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 396
• Barber, David, half-pay not allowed to heirs of ... 72
• Barclay, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 400
• Barclay, Thomas, claim of for consular and other services, report of committee H. R. on the ... 24
• Barclay, Mary, claim of for consular and other services of her late husband, report of committee in favor of the ... 347
• Barhyt, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 97
• Barker, Jacob, claim of for the difference between the prices of certain loans under the act of March, 1814, reports of committee against the ... 771, 824

  Petition of claiming the said difference ... 825, 827, 828

• Barker, John, claim of allowed under, the act of March, 1792 ... 392
• Barnes, Charles, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 399
• Barnes, Daniel, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 387
• Barnes, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 153
• Barnes, Elijah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 166
• Barnes, Lemuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110
• Barnett, William, claim of the estate of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 387
• Barney, Israel, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 399
• Barney, Nathaniel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 109
• Barns, Amos, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Barns, Daniel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Barns, Harchwell, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Barns, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 391
• Barnum, Stephen, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90, 92
• Barnwell, Luke, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 389
• Barr, Jacob, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 404
• Barr, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 389, 399
• Barracks, report of committee against the claim of Hoel Lawrence and others, for materials, &c. furnished for the erection of on Staten Island ... 839
• Barret, Oliver, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 398
• Barron, William A., claim of for certain travelling expenses, report of committee recommending a postponement of the ... 308
• Barry & Hodge, claim of for property destroyed by order of Government, report of committee against the ... 537
• Barry, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 394
• Bartlett, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 110
• Barton, William, claim of for further compensation as a clerk, report of committee against the ... 79
• Bartram, Job, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113, 141
• Bass, Andrew, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office certificates not allowed ... 258
• Bass and Martin, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office certificates not allowed ... 258
• Bassett, James, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 401
• Batchelder, Archelaus, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136

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• Batchelder, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 140
• Bate, John, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of for relief as lessee of the salt works on the Wabash, from loss by the inundation of the Ohio ... 533
• Bateman, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 405
• Bates, Joseph, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110
• Baxter, Francis, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Beach, Nathaniel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114, 167
• Beach, Samuel, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 398
• Beall, Zachariah, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Bean, Charles, claim of for services and expenses in aiding to enforce the embargo laws in Massachusetts in 1809, report of committee in favor of the ... 382
• Bean, James, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1820 ... 402
• Bean, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 86, 104
• Bean, John, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 402
• Bean, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 402
• Bears, Daniel, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 392
• Bears, James, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Beaulieu, L. J., Captain, claim of for commutation, report of committee in favor of the ... 676
• Beaumarchais, Caron de, claim of the representatives of for indemnity for supplies furnished to the United States, report of committee on the ... 314, 319

  Brief statement of the account of ... 316

  Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of ... 318

  Report of a committee on the claim of ... 332

  Message of the President in relation to the claim of ... 334

  Note of the French Minister Plenipotentiary to the Secretary of State on the claim of ... 335

  Objection to the claim of ... 335

  Report of a committee on the message of the President in relation to the claim of ... 341

  Report of the Secretary of State, transmitting the opinion of the Attorney General on the question, whether the sum of 1,000,000 livres, received by M. Beaumarchais from the French Government, should be regarded as payment of so much on the part of the United States ... 343

  Report of a committee against the claim of the heirs of ... 433

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the claim of ... 434

  Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a new representatation of the claim of ... 538

  Report of a committee bringing in a bill for the relief of the heirs of ... 559

  Correspondence on the claim of ... 563--581

  Message from President of the United States, furnishing further information on the claim of ... 859

  Beaumont, Isaiah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90

• Bedinger, Henry, claim of for arrears of pay and loss on a commutation certificate, report of a committee against the ... 701
• Beebe, Thaddeus, claim of for an invalid pension ... 114
• Beekwith, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 388
• Belew, Robert, claim of for property destroyed by the troops in 1799, report of a committee in favor of the ... 361
• Belknap, William, claim of allowed under the act of March, 1792 ... 391
• Bell, Frederick M., Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Bell, James, claim of allowed ... 393
• Bell, John, claim of for a pension ... 122, 164
• Bell, William, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 176
• Bell, William, claim of allowed ... 391
• Bellows, Ezra, claim of allowed ... 156
• Bellows, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 150
• Bement, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110
• Bemus, Elisha, claim of allowed ... 400
• Bennet, Isaac, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96
• Bennet, John, claim of for arrears of pay, report of a committee in favor of the ... 199
• Bennet, Richard, claim of allowed ... 390
• Bennet, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 167
• Bennett, Elijah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119, 144
• Bennett, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 398
• Bennett, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 167
• Benneville, Daniel de, claim of allowed ... 401
• Benson, Henry, claim of allowed ... 387
• Bent, Prince, pension granted to him ... 403
• Benton, John, claim of for a pension ... 106
• Benton, Shelah, claim of for a pension, report of a committee in favor of the ... 414
• Berbage, William, pension granted to him ... 392
• Berdein, Elnathan, pension granted to him ... 396
• Berdue, Eli, pension granted to him ... 398
• Bergmeyer, Daniel, pension granted to him ... 391
• Berrins, William, pension granted to him ... 397
• Berry, Abigail, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 179
• Berry, Benjamin, claim of for the fulfilment of a contract with a collector for rescuing goods from a wreck, report of a committee in favor of the ... 546
• Beth, Archibald, pension granted to him ... 387
• Betterton, Benjamin, claim of for extra pay as a clerk, report of a committee in favor of the ... 124
• Betto, Peter, pension granted to him ... 398
• Bevier, Fr. S. D., pension granted to him ... 387
• Bevins, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Bezedone, Laurent, claim of for the use of his property by a military force, report of a committee against the ... 499
• Biddle and Tellier, claim of allowed ... 396
• Bienvenue, Antoine, claim of for indemnity for the destruction of his property during the defence of New Orleans, report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of the ... 521

  Claim of for a number of slaves taken by the British, report of a committee against the ... 531

  Claim of for property destroyed in the defence of New Orleans, report of a committee of the Senate against the ... 836

• Bill, David, claim of allowed ... 388
• Bill of exchange, report of a committee against allowing a claim for damages on a protested ... 823
• Bills. (See New Emission Bills.)
• Bird, Benjamin, claim of for the renewal of certain lost certificates, report against the ... 241, 258
• Bird, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• Bishop, Charles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95

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• Bishop, Squire, jun., report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Blackman, David, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113, 154
• Blackmore, George, claim of allowed ... 401
• Blackwell, claim of allowed ... 392
• Blades, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Blair, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Blair, Wade, claim of allowed ... 403
• Blake, Increase, claim of allowed ... 394
• Blakeley, Enos, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 153
• Bland, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Blauvelt, Abraham, claim of for a pension ... 126
• Bledsoe, George, claim of for a pension ... 164
• Blevin, Samuel, claim of for a pension ... 91
• Bliss, Luke, claim of allowed ... 405
• Blivin, James, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 118
• Blockade of the part of Tripoli, report of a committee against the claim of J. McCauley, a prize agent, for vessels captured for a breach of the, in 1804 ... 479
• Blodget, Rufus, claim of allowed ... 401
• Blossom, Peter, claim of allowed ... 392
• Blunt, William, claim of allowed ... 390
• Boan, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Boardman, Elijah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Boardman, Elijah, an army officer, claim of for indemnity for the loss of his clothing and furniture, report of a committee against the ... 757
• Boardman, Moses, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Body, Robert, claim of allowed ... 391
• Bogart, James N., claim of allowed ... 390
• Bogert, John G., claim of for the return of a part of the money paid for lands which proved deficient in quantity, report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the ... 549

  Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of the claim of ... 597

• Boilevin, Nicholas, claim of for losses occasioned by the enemy in the late war, report of a committee against the ... 461
• Bollington, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Bolton, Richard, claim of allowed ... 394
• Bolton, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 401
• Bond, George, clerk, report of a committee against the claim of for further compensation ... 79
• Bond, Phineas, claim of allowed ... 389
• Bond, William, late colonel, claim of the widow of, for seven years' half-pay, admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30
• Bosher, John, claim of admitted ... 402
• Bostwick, John, claim of admitted ... 402
• Bostwick, Oliver, claim of for a pension ... 89
• Bouce, Henry, claim of for a pension ... 92
• Bounty land, reports of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claim of a quartermaster general to ... 16, 18

  Claim of Mary Hibbon for, report of the Secretary of War against the ... 194

  Claim of E. Brooke for, reports of committees against the ... 410, 532

  Claim of Abigail O'Fling for, report of a committee against the ... 469

  To certain Canadian volunteers, report of a committee in favor of amending the act granting ... 498

  Claim of a deserter for, report of a committee in favor of the ... 607

  Claim of Major John Clark for, report of a committee in favor of the ... 664

  Report of a committee against allowing to the heirs of a deputy quartermaster general ... 706

  Claim of J. McHatton for, report of a committee against the ... 803

  Claim of Charles Swift for, report of a committee against the ... 832

  Claim of Samuel Corliss for, report of a committee against the ... 835

  Claim of Stephen Howard for, report of a committee in favor of the ... 847

  Promised to soldiers who enlisted for five years, under the act of January 14, 1812 ... 847

  Claim of D. and S. Storer, heirs of Colonel R. H. Harrison for, report of committee against the ... 847

• Bounty on prisoners, claim of Gooding and Williams for, report of a committee in favor of ... 655, 757

  Act granting to the owners of private armed vessels of the United States army ... 656

• Bower, Mary, report of a committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the American army in 1776 ... 608
• Bowers, George, claim of allowed ... 401
• Bowers, Ishmael, claim of allowed ... 397
• Bowers, Jonathan, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Bowie & Kurts, and others, claim of for indemnity for the loss of a ship engaged in public service, reports of committees in favor of the ... 435, 476

  Reports of committees of the House of Representatives against the claim of ... 500, 615

  Objections to the petition of ... 618

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the claim of ... 625

  Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of the claim of ... 699

• Boyd, Joseph C., an army paymaster, report of a committee of the Senate against allowing credit to on his accounts for certain money advanced and lost ... 525

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of the claim of ... 844

• Boyer, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 400
• Boyle, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Boyles, Charles, claim of admitted ... 394
• Boyles, David, claim of admitted ... 394
• Boylston, Edward, claim of admitted ... 401
• Bozeman, Peter, claim of allowed ... 392
• Braddock, John, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Bradley, Abner, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88, 165
• Bradley, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 393
• Bradley, Daniel, claim of for a horse killed in the military service, report of a committee against the ... 371
• Bradley, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Bradley, Nathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Bradstreet, Dudley, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Bradt, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 92
• Bragdon, Josiah, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Bramble, Silas, claim of allowed ... 400
• Brandt, Joachim, claim of for a pension ... 101
• Brannon, Caleb, claim of allowed ... 395
• Brannon, John, claim of allowed ... 391

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• Bransfield, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Brawn, Daniel, claim of for a pension ... 135
• Breach of contract. (See Indemnity.)
• Breach of the revenue laws, report of a committee against the claim of a collector of customs for goods forfeited for a ... 689
• Bready, Luke, claim of allowed ... 405
• Breck, William, claim of for expenses in bringing to the United States a mutineer at sea, report of a committee in favor of the ... 287
• Breuster, Caleb, claim of allowed ... 406
• Brewster, Caleb, a lieutenant, report of the Secretary of War in favor of reimbursing his expenses, with interest, incurred in consequence of wounds received in action, and allowing him a pension ... 23
• Brewster, Joshua, claim of allowed ... 401
• Briggs, Adam, claim of allowed ... 393
• Briggs, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 405
• Briggs, Burton, claim of for a pension ... 118
• Briggs, Isaac, a surveyor of public lands, claim of for compensation for exploring a post route from the city of Washington to New Orleans ... 362

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of ... 544

  Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of ... 544

• Brigland, James, claim of allowed ... 405
• Brimmer, Andrus, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 180
• Brimmer, Herman, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Brinsfield, William, claim of for a pension ... 163
• Briscoe, Reuben, claim of allowed ... 387
• Briscoe, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393
• Britigny, Marquis de, claim of allowed ... 388
• Britton, Job, claim of for a pension ... 159
• Britton, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Broker, Edward, claim of allowed ... 399
• Bromell, Robert, claim of allowed ... 404
• Bronson, Alvin, claim of for indemnity for the loss of a vessel employed to transport guns and other equipments for the navy, reports of a committee against the ... 732, 761

  Payments made to, for transportation of guns, &c., by Commodore Chauncey ... 763

• Brooke, Edmund, report of a committee against the claim of, for revolutionary services ... 410

  Claim of for depreciation, commutation, and bounty land, report of a committee against the ... 532

• Brooks, Charles, claim of allowed ... 389
• Brooks, Ebenezer, claim of for a pension ... 155
• Brooks, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 401
• Brooks & Reed, claim of for costs of prosecuting a suit for a supposed violation of the law against importing negroes, report of a committee against the ... 307
• Brooks, Thomas, claim of for a pension ... 126
• Browder, William, claim of allowed ... 390
• Brown, Clement, claim of for further compensation for doing his duty as a clerk, while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia, report of a committee in favor of the ... 79
• Brown, Edward, claim of allowed ... 405
• Brown, Frederick, Captain, claim of for credit on his account for certain lost vouchers, report of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the ... 639
• Brown, George, claim of allowed ... 403
• Brown, Jacob, Major General, report of a committee allowing indemnity to, against certain judicial proceedings, ... 551
• Brown, James, claim of for a pension, report of a committee in favor of the ... 792
• Brown, Jedediah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 153
• Brown, John, claim of for property destroyed by the troops in 1799, report of a committee in favor of the ... 361
• Brown, John, claim of allowed ... 390, 396, 397, 399
• Brown, John, Captain, half-pay not allowed to the representatives of ... 506
• Brown, Mrs., claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Brown, Noah, and others, reports of committee against allowing indemnity to, for the embezzlement of certain prize money, by a clerk of a district court of New York ... 582, 679
• Brown, Obadiah, claim of for a pension ... 144
• Brown, Sampson, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110
• Brown, Samuel, report against the claim of for arrears of pay ... 235
• Brown, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 401, 406
• Brown, Scipio, claim of allowed ... 403
• Brown, Stephen, Captain, half-pay not allowed to the heirs of ... 72
• Brown, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397
• Brown, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• Brownlee, William, claim of allowed ... 387
• Brownson, Galen, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Brownson, Gideon, Major, pension allowed to ... 125, 172, 398
• Brushears, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 403
• Bryant, David, Captain, seven years' half-pay granted to representatives of ... 72
• Bryant, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Bryant, Philip, claim of for property destroyed by the enemy, rejected ... 558
• Brydia, David, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119
• Bube, Thaddeus, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Buchanan, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 402
• Buchanan, George, claim of allowed ... 402
• Buchanan, James, claim of allowed ... 400, 402
• Buckley, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Buel, Samuel, collector of customs, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to, from a judgment at law ... 880
• Buell, Isaac, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 90, 113
• Buffalo and Niagara frontier, memorial of the inhabitants of, for indemnity for losses by the enemy in 1813, report of a committee in favor of the ... 507
• Bughardt, Adolphus, Lieutenant, claim of for indemnity for clothes lost, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the ... 640
• Bull, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 387
• Bullock, David, claim of allowed ... 400
• Bulsam, Alexander, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 180
• Bunce, Asa, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Bunce, Isaiah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 89, 114
• Bunch, John, claim of allowed ... 402

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• Bunker's Hill, report of the Secretary of War, in favor of granting seven years' half-pay to the widows and children of officers killed, or who died of wounds received at ... 70
• Burbridge, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 401
• Burbridge, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 401
• Burceil, James, claim of for a pension, rejected ... 534
• Burchite, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Burd, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Burdin, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Burdin, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 400
• Burdwin, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Burkett, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Burnes, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 395
• Burnett, John, Lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Burnett, Moses, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Burney, James, claim of allowed ... 399
• Burnham, Charles, claim of allowed ... 405
• Burnham, Oliver, claim of for a pension ... 167
• Burns, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Burr, Aaron, report of a committee allowing further compensation to the witnesses attending the trial of ... 364
• Burr, Salmon, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 113
• Burr, Thaddeus, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 176
• Burritt, William, claim of for a pension ... 167
• Burroughs, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 388
• Burrows, Joseph, claim of for a pension ... 102
• Burton, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 122, 164
• Burwell, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Busby, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 396
• Bush, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Bush, John, late Lieutenant, claim of his children to seven years' half-pay, admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30
• Bush, Philip, claim of for certain lost certificates, report of a committee against allowing the ... 216, 241
• Bush, Philip, claim of the executors of for supplies furnished the army in the Revolution, report of a committee against the ... 687
• Butler, Daniel, claim of for a pension ... 169
• Butler, Lord, claim of allowed ... 397, 401
• Butler, Norman, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 177
• Butler, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• Butman, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 388
• Butterfield, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 398
• Buttery, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Buttolph, George, claim of for a pension ... 142
• Byington, Abraham, report of a committee against the petition of to be released from the suretyship of a defaulting postmaster ... 534
• Byrnon, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• C.
• Cable, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 405
• Cades, Edward E., claim of allowed ... 388
• Cady, Abijah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114
• Cæesar, Elisha, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cahill, David, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cahoon, Samuel, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 180
• Cain, Adam, claim of allowed ... 399
• Caise, Philip, claim of allowed ... 405
• Caldenood, James, Captain, half-pay not allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Calder, William, claim of allowed ... 403
• Caldwell, Andrew, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 177
• Callahan, Daniel, claim of for a pension ... 102
• Callis, William O., claim of allowed ... 391
• Calvard, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 399
• Calvinist Church, in Vincent township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, claim of the trustees of for injury done to said church by the troops of the United States, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of the ... 198
• Cammack, William, commissary of forage, claim of disallowed ... 429
• Camp, Amos, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Camp, Joel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89
• Campbell, Duncan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144, 172
• Campbell, Ezekiel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Campbell, James, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 388, 400
• Campbell, John, claim of allowed ... 392, 397
• Campbell, Robert, claim of allowed ... 401
• Campbell, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Campbell, Thomas, claim of for expenses incurred by wounds received in the Revolution, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the ... 408
• Campbell, William, claim of allowed ... 388
• Campfield, James, claim of allowed ... 394
• Canadian refugees, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to S. Thompson and John Dailey ... 502

  Report of a committee against the petition of Abraham Markle and Gideon Frisbee ... 457

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing indemnity to certain, for loss of their property in aiding the American cause ... 608

• Canadian volunteers, report of a committee in favor of amending the act granting bounties in land, and extra pay to certain ... 498
• Canady, Seth, claim of allowed ... 388
• Camington, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Cannon, new method of mounting on fortifications ... 320

  Statement of the expense of mounting on fortifications according to a new method ... 321

• Cannon, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 404
• Cardiff, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 145
• Carey, Edward, an army paymaster, report of committee against the claim of for the admission of certain charges in his accounts ... 881
• Carey, James, claim of allowed ... 393

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• Carey, Richard, claim of allowed ... 390
• Carhart, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96
• Carleton, Ebenezer, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Carlisle, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Carman, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Carman, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Carmichael, William, claim of the widow of the late, for his diplomatic services and expenses as charge des affaires of the United States at Spain, report of the Secretary of State in favor of the ... 200
• Carnachan, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Carnaghan, John, claim of barred by statute of limitation ... 49
• Carnes, Edward, claim of for supplies furnished, and work done, for sundry vessels during the late war, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the ... 50, 392
• Carney, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 404
• Carpenter, Benajah, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Carpenter, Comfort, claim of allowed ... 390
• Carr, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 128
• Carr, Robert, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 60, 118
• Carr, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 400
• Carrico, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Carril, James, claim of allowed ... 397
• Carrman, Willet, claim of allowed ... 406
• Carrol, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 395
• Carroll, Daniel, claim of for property destroyed by the enemy, not within the act providing for the payment of the same ... 486
• Carroll, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Cars, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 152
• Carter, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 397
• Carter, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 396
• Carter, George, claim of allowed ... 403
• Carter, James, claim of allowed ... 391, 402
• Carter, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Carter, Timothy, claim of allowed ... 394
• Cartwright, Timothy, claim of allowed ... 388
• Carty, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Cary, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Case, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Caskins, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 403
• Cass, Moses, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Castando, John de, claim of for property destroyed during the defence of New Orleans in 1814,--'15, report of committee in favor of the ... 522
• Castello, James, claim of allowed ... 400
• Catlett, Hanson, claim of for a slave lost in the public service, report of committee against the ... 776
• Cato, William, claim of allowed ... 392
• Causin, Nathaniel P. and wife, heirs of Col. J. H. Stone, claim of for commutation, report of committee against the ... 643
• Cavanaugh, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103
• Cavender, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 395
• Cavenner, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 391
• Caze & Richaud, claim of for property destroyed by the burning of the United States vessel "Adams," report of committee in favor of the ... 498

  Claim of for a ship taken by the British after the treaty of peace, report of the Secretary of State on the ... 551

  Claim of for property destroyed by the burning of the United States ship "Adams," report of committee against the ... 665

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the claim of ... 666

• Cazeau, Francis, claim of for supplies furnished the United States during the Revolution, report of committee in favor of the ... 515

  Resolutions of Congress in relation to the claim of ... 517, 518

  Statements of the claim of ... 518, 520

• Census, claim of the assistant marshals for compensation for taking the third, in South Carolina, allowed ... 472

  Report of committee against the claim of an assistant marshal for extra pay for taking the fourth, in Virginia ... 822

• Certificates, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, suggesting the mode of proceeding in the renewal of lost ... 51, 52

  Of invalid pensioners, list of transmitted by the judges of the district court--

  For the district of Maine ... 85, 135

  Massachusetts ... 87, 109, 140, 150, 162

  Connecticut ... 88, 112, 125, 141, 153

  Rhode Island ... 91, 152

  Vermont ... 92, 125, 144, 157

  New York ... 92, 126, 144, 157

  New Jersey ... 96

  Pennsylvania ... 98, 128, 145

  Maryland ... 104, 127, 163

  Virginia ... 105, 164

  Kentucky ... 106, 171

  North Carolina ... 106, 127, 164, 168, 171

  South Carolina ... 106

  New Hampshire ... 108, 135, 159

  Delaware ... 128, 163

  Georgia ... 169

  Final settlement, claim of the State of Georgia for, in lieu of one heretofore issued and not deemed final by the officers of the Government ... 185

  Final settlement, report of committee against a claim for indemnity for a counterfeit ... 189

  Report of committee against making further provision for the renewal of lost ... 196

  Loan Office, or final settlement, lost or destroyed, provided for by acts of Congress ... 196

  Final settlement, report of committee against the claim of A. Bagley for indemnity againstloss by certain counterfeit ... 203

  Final settlement, report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the amount of outstanding, barred by the act of 3d March, 1795 ... 209

  Loan Office, amount of outstanding barred by the act of 3d March, 1795 ... 209

  Loan Office and final settlement, claim of G. P. Frost and others for the renewal of, or compensation for certain, report of committee against the ... 216

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• Certificates, quartermaster's lost or destroyed, report of committee against certain claims for the renewal of or compensation for ... 216

  Loan Office and final settlement, report of committee against the claims of sundry persons for, alleged to have been lost or destroyed ... 241

  Loan Office and final settlement, report of committee against the expediency of providing by law for the payment of such as may have been lost, and for the payment or renewal of which application was made prior to the 12th June, 1799 ... 256

  Loan Office and final settlement, list of the claims for the renewal of under the act of 21st April, 1794 ... 258

  Loan Office and final settlement, barred by acts of limitation, recommended by committee to be paid ... 533

  Loan Office, report of committee against the claim of J. Murray for the payment of sundry, barred by act of limitation ... 369

  Loan Office and final settlement, amount of barred by acts of limitation ... 384

  Commissioners' and army commissioners', amount of barred by acts of limitation ... 384

  Loan Office and final settlement, lost or destroyed, claims for the renewal of, limited to the 1st day of June, 1795 ... 407

  Report of a committee in favor of the renewal of lost or destroyed loan office or final settlement ... 411

  Loan Office, final settlement, commissioners' and army, report of committee in favor of providing by law for the payment of ... 411

  Loan Office and final settlement, report of committee against the expediency of repealing or suspending the acts of limitation barring ... 414

  Commissioners', report of committee against repealing or suspending the acts of limitation barring ... 414

  Army, report of committee against repealing or suspending the acts of limitation barring ... 414

  Lost or destroyed, report of committee against repealing or suspending acts of limitation barring the payment or renewal of ... 414

  Final settlement, claim of J. Dixon for a, barred by act of limitation ... 416

  Loan Office, report of committee in favor of the claim of William Arnold for the renewal of a certificate destroyed by fire ... 441

  Loan Office, report of committee in favor of the claim of the administrator of Mary Rappelya for the renewal of certain destroyed by fire ... 446

  Loan Office, report of committee in favor of the claim of John Delafield, for the funding of sundry ... 463, 496, 598

  Loan Office, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of the claim of J. Holker for the renewal of certain lost ... 470

  Lost or destroyed, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing the regulations for the renewal of ... 470, 471

  Claim of J. M. Godfrey for the payment of a deputy quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 548

  Loan Office, report of committee granting relief to S. Gibbs, for the loss of certain ... 637

  Quartermaster's, report of committee against the claim of a foragemaster for the payment of a ... 644

  Final settlement, report of committee against the claim of Christopher Fowler, for sundry ... 672

  Report of committee against the claim of Edward Smith for a lost certificate ... 687

  Final settlement certificate, report of committee against the claim of S. Ward for the renewal of a lost ... 700

  Report of committee against the claim of H. Bedinger, for loss on a commutation certificate ... 701

  Quartermaster General's, report of committee against the claim of R. G. Morris for certain ... 816

  Final settlement, report of committee against the claim of McKewan for sundry, barred by statute of limitations ... 838

• Chadbourn, Levi, claim of for an invalid pension ... 86
• Chadwick, Caleb, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 109
• Chadwick, John, claim of allowed ... 387
• Chalmers, John, claim of for loss by the destruction of the ropewalks in Baltimore by military order, report of committee in favor of the ... 441
• Chambliss, Peter, claim of allowed ... 396
• Champenois, William, claim of for a pension ... 126
• Champlin, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 396
• Champlin, Stephen, a lieutenant in the navy, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for property lost by the capture of his vessel ... 526
• Champlin, York, claim of allowed ... 403
• Chandler, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 391, 401
• Chandler, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114, 397
• Chandler, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 397
• Chapell, Russel, claim of for a pension ... 168
• Chapin, John E. and Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• Chaplin, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Chapman, Barnabas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110
• Chapman, Enoch, claim of allowed ... 399
• Chapman, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 389
• Chapman, Reuben, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112
• Chapman, Shadrach, claim of allowed ... 399
• Chapman, Thomas, a collector of customs, claim of for a portion of certain goods forfeited for a breach of the revenue laws, report of committee against the ... 699
• Chapman, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Chappel, John, claim of for a pension ... 141
• Chapple, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Chark, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Charlesworth, John M., claim of for a pension ... 92
• Charlont, Peter, certificate of the judges of the circuit court of the United States for Massachusetts in favor of granting him a pension with arrears of pay ... 68, 109
• Chase, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Cheeke, Thomas L., claim of allowed ... 394
• Chew, James, claim of allowed ... 402
• Childers, Nathaniel, claim of for extra pay for taking the fourth census in Virginia, report of committee against the ... 822
• Childs, Caleb, claim of for a pension and arrears of pay, report of committee against the ... 874
• Chitty, Charles K., claim of allowed ... 388
• Christian, James, claim of for a pension ... 164
• Chubbuck, Levi, certificate of for a pension ... 137
• Claggette, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 398

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• Claims, report of Secretary of the Treasury of the proceedings of the accounting officers of the Treasury on certain, deemed inadmissible, but which have been presented pursuant to an act of Congress ... 172
• Claims not acted on by the commissioner, recommended by committee to be transferred for adjudicationto the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury ... 590
• Claims Georgia militia, see Georgia militia claims.
• Clark, Ashel, report of a committee granting indemnity to, against a judgment obtained against him,while acting as a judge advocate ... 591
• Clark, David, claim of allowed ... 404
• Clark, Edward, claim of for a pension ... 160
• Clark, Elisha, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 153
• Clark, Gersham, claim of to an invalid pension ... 92
• Clark, Isaac, Colonel, claim of for certain horses and arms captured from the enemy, report of committee in favor of allowing the ... 613
• Clark, James H., a purser in the navy, report of committee of the House of Representatives recommending the postponement of the bill from the Senate granting indemnity to for certain money stolen from him ... 674

  Report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for money lost ... 778

• Clark, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• Clark, John, report of committee in favor of granting bounty land to ... 664
• Clark, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Clark, Lucy, widow of Thomas Clark, claim of for the services of her late husband as director of artificers, report of committee against the ... 210
• Clark, Lucy, report granting her indemnity against the execution of a judgment on the bond of her late husband for the hire of a negro man ... 210
• Clark, Oliver, claim of allowed ... 393
• Clark, Samuel, claim of for clothing for the militia, &c. disallowed ... 427
• Clark, Thaddeus, claim of for materials, &c. for the erection of barracks, report of committee against the ... 839
• Clarke & Connor, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 176
• Clarke, John, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 179
• Clarkson, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 389
• Clary, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Clatterbook, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 389
• Clements, William, claim of for damage done to his property by the troops of the United States, report of committee against the ... 530
• Clemons, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Clerks, see Compensation.
• Clever, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Cleves, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 397
• Clickley, Charles, claim of allowed ... 399
• Cline, Michael, claim of allowed ... 404
• Clinton, Charles, claim of allowed ... 405
• Clossey, Miles F., a clerk, claim of for further compensation for doing duty while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia, report of committee in favor of the ... 79
• Clough, Gibson, claim of allowed ... 392
• Clough, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108
• Clough, Noah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 85
• Clymer & Meredith, claim of allowed ... 396
• Coates, Frederick, claim of for a horse lost in public service, report of committee against the ... 779
• Coates, John, a captain, certificate of ... 121
• Coats, John, claim of for a pension ... 170
• Coats, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 397
• Coburn, Morrel, claim of for a pension ... 159
• Cochran, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Cochran, William, amount of the loss of by insurgents in 1794 ... 238
• Cockley, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Cockrell, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Cockshott, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cofer, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 398
• Coffee lost at Algiers, report of a committee against allowing a claim for indemnity for ... 514
• Coffee, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 404
• Cogswell, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 391
• Cogswell, William, certificate of for a pension ... 139
• Cogswell, William, a British deserter, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss of his property by deserting to the United States ... 704
• Coit, Thomas, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of to be discharged from the payment of a sum of money lost by fire while in his hands as a collector ... 148
• Colbath, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Colbert, George, claim of for supplies furnished to an expedition against the Creek Indians, report of committee against the ... 196
• Colburn, Andrew, a lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Colburn, John, claim of for a pension ... 160
• Colburn, Reuben, claim of for boats and other supplies furnished to Arnold's expedition, report of committeeagainst the ... 667
• Coldwell, Robert, claim of for a pension ... 164
• Cole, James, claim of for a pension ... 92
• Cole, Levi, claim of allowed ... 399
• Coleman, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 397
• Coleman, Prince, claim of allowed ... 404
• Coleman, R., Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Colgin, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Colley, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Collins, Edward, claim of allowed ... 403
• Collins, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 388
• Collins, James, claim allowed ... 404
• Collins, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Collins, Michael, claim of allowed ... 404
• Collins, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 389
• Collins, Zachariah, claim of allowed ... 896
• Colony, Richard, claim of for a pension ... 137

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• Colter, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Comegys, Cornelius, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 178
• Commissioner's certificates. (See Certificates.)
• Commissioner of Claims, proceedings of the, under the act for the payment of claims for property taken or destroyed by the enemy during the war with Great Britain ... 490--'6

  Report of a committee recommending claims unsettled by the to be transferred for settlement to the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury ... 590

  Regulations for the government of the ... 690

• Commissioner of Loans for New Hampshire, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on increasing the compensation of the ... 147
• Commissioners of land claims west of Pearl river, report of committee deeming it inexpedient to allow additional compensation to the ... 355

  Compensation and duties of the, fixed by act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1803 ... 356

• Commissions allowed on commercial transactions in Europe for the United States ... 24

  Of collectors of revenue, accrue only on moneys accounted for ... 489

  On disbursements, report of committee in favor of the claim of Daniel D. Tompkins for ... 884

• Commutation of half-pay, report of the Secretary of War against allowing to the officers of the regiment of artillery (artificers) ... 9

  Report of the Secretary of War against the claim of a deputy quartermaster general to ... 18

  Report of the Secretary of War against allowing to the heirs of an officer who died before the end of the war ... 21

  Report of the Secretary of War against the claim of the officers of a troop of State cavalry raised in Virginia to ... 22

  By a resolve of Congress of June 7, 1785, a bar to claims of commissioned officers to invalid pensions until first returned ... 75, 78, 84, 134, 218, 558

  Officers exchanged between the 25th October and the 31st December, 1780, entitled to ... 129

  Officers deranged under the acts of 1780 not entitled to, without necessary certificate from the Secretary of War or State ... 129

  Opinion of the Attorney General against the claim of Captain Peter Perrit for ... 184

  Claim of the executrix of George Hurlbut for, report of a committee against the ... 196--'7

  Claim of the widow of Colonel Alexander Hamilton for, report of committee against the ... 370

  Report of a committee in favor of said claim ... 467

  Report of a committee in favor of exchanging commutation of five years' full-pay for half-pay for life to sundry officers of the Revolutionary army ... 372

  Claim of E. Brooke for, report of committee against the ... 410, 532

  Claims for half-pay for life, not allowed after it has been commuted ... 456

  Claim of W. Wilson for, report of committee against allowing the ... 557

  Report of committee against the claim of the representatives of Colonel J. H. Stone for ... 643

  Claim of J. Polhemus for, report of committee against the ... 651

  Claim of J. McHatton for, report of committee against the ... 803

  Claim of the heirs of Colonel R. H. Harrison for, report of committee against the ... 847

  Allowed to officers who served to the end of the war ... 847

• Commutation of a pension, report of committee against the claim of J. Hoxie for the ... 249
• Compensation, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against claims of public officers for the time spent in settling their accounts ... 7

  Report of committee in favor of allowing further, to Leighton Wood and others, for performing the duties of clerks in the Treasury Department, while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79

  Report of committee against the claim of Aaron Lawrence and others, clerks, for further ... 79

  Claim of Stephen Sayre for diplomatic services, report of the Secretary of State in favor of granting the ... 81

  Report of committee in favor of granting to S. Sayre for his diplomatic services ... 123

  Report of committee in favor of allowing extra pay to certain clerks of the War Department, for services while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 124

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of granting an increase of to a commissioner of loans ... 147

  Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury recommending in all cases where the property of religious or literary institutions has been used or injured by the troops of the United States ... 198

  Claim of Thomas Lewis for, as a supernumerary aid to General Wayne, report of committee against the ... 214

  Report of committee against allowing additional to the commissioners on land claim west of Pearl river ... 355

  To an assistant marshal for taking the fourth census in Virginia, report of a committee against allowing extra ... 822

  For extra services performed by a deputy commissary of purchases, report of committee against granting ... 886

• Composition of a debt, report of the Secretary of War in favor of making a ... 73
• Compton, Ignatius, claim of allowed ... 390
• Condemnation, illegal, and sale of a vessel, report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity for the ... 421
• Cone, Henry, claim of for a pension ... 125, 165
• Confiscation of a vessel at Santa Martha, report of committee against the claim of Ward and Riker for indemnity for the ... 472

  Report of committee in favor of indemnifying William Haslett for a ship yielded up to save from confiscation American property by the Dey of Algiers ... 484

  Of property by the British Government after the declaration of war, report of committtee against allowing indemnity for the ... 696, 861

  Of a quantity of coffee by the Dey of Algiers, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on a claim for indemnity for ... 435

  Reports of a committee against said claim ... 514, 853

• Congress, the Secretary of War recommends a more liberal construction of the resolve of 7th June, 1785, in favor of certain invalid officers ... 6

  Report of the Secretary of War recommending a relaxation of the resolve of 11th June, 1788, in favor of certain invalid soldiers ... 8, 20

  Report of the Secretary of War suggesting the limitations contained in the resolve of the 2d November, 1785, ought not to prejudice the claims of the children of officers who died in the service to seven years' half pay ... 20

  Construction given to said resolve ... 25

  Construction given to the resolve of 24th August, 1778, ... 22

  Construction given by the Secretary of War to the resolve of 23d July, 1787 ... 25

  Construction given to the resolve of 11th June, 1788 ... 25

  Resolves of 3d June, 1784, making provision for reimbursing the damage or destruction of property by the army of the United States ... 55

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• Congress, opinion of the Attorney General in relation to the acts of, establishing rules for placing commissioned officers on the pension list of the United States ... 75

  Act of 23d March, 1792, in relation to placing commissioned officers on the pension list, repealed by act of 28th February, 1793 ... 78

  Resolve of, of June 7th, 1785, a bar to claims of officers to invalid pensions, who have received their commutation of half-pay ... 84

  Resolve of, of 16th September, 1776, report of committee against extenting the benefit of the, to the representatives of officers and soldiers of the late army who died in service ... 192

  Acts or resolves of, in relation to invalid pensions, report of a committee against the expediency of altering or amending the ... 216

  Resolve of, of 7th June, 1785, designating the principles on which grants to invalid pensioners are made ... 217

  Acts and resolves of, regulating the calling of the militia of the States into service for supressing Indian hostilities ... 229

  Resolve of, of 10th May, 1780, providing for the renewal of loan office certificates lost by accident, held to extend to such as were thrown overboard to avoid capture by the enemy ... 256

  Act of, of 21st April, 1794, limiting the time for presenting claims for certificates lost or destroyed to the 1st day of June, 1795 ... 256

  Act of, of 3d March, 1795, limiting the presentment of loan office or final settlement certificates, to the 12th June, 1799 ... 256

  Act of, of 1st May, 1802, authorizing the formation of a State Government of the territory northwest of the Ohio ... 311

  Resolve of, prescribing the limit within which certain claims shall be admitted ... 380

  Acts and resolves of, in relation to the limitation of claims against the United States ... 406, 407

  Resolve of, rewarding the services of Arnold H. Dorhman ... 512

  Resolves of, in relation to the claim of Francis Cazeau ... 517, 518

  Act of, allowing a bounty on prisoners taken by the private armed vessels of the United States ... 656

  Act of, of 18th March, 1818, providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, report of committee against repealing the ... 682

  Report of the Secretary of War of the description of persons entitled to the benefit of said act ... 683

  Construction given to said act ... 682

  Resolve of, abolishing the admiralty and navy boards ... 705

  Construction given to the act of, for the relief of John H. Piatt, an army contractor ... 791

  Resolves of in relation to half-pay ... 758, 777, 804

  Resolves of in relation to prisoners of war ... 805

• Conklin, Ezekiel, claim of for depreciation of certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 180
• Conklin, Isaac, claim of for depreciation of certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 180
• Conklin, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Conklin, William, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 180
• Conkling, Josiah, claim of for a pension ... 166
• Conner, Edward, claim of allowed ... 393
• Conner, George, claim of allowed ... 404
• Conner, Hugh, claim of allowed ... 405
• Connery, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Connolly, Robert, claim of for a pension ... 145
• Constable, William and James, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, not allowed ... 179, 215
• Consul General to France, salary and commissions allowed to the ... 24
• Consular services at Tunis, report of committee against the claim of William Eaton for ... 299

  Report of committee recommending a settlement of said claim ... 323

  At Madrid, report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of Moses Young for ... 307

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of the widow of Thomas Barclay ... 347, 354

• Continental army, list of officers belonging to the, who died in service or were killed in action previous to the 28th May, 1778, and to whose widows and orpans seven years' half-pay was granted, taken from the returns of the respective States ... 72
• Continental loan office, claim of the administratrix of Lemuel Thorowgood, for certain deposites in a, barred by statute of limitation ... 638
• Contract, report of committee against allowing indemnity to Flannagain and Parsons for loss on a ... 585

  Report of committee in favor of the fulfilment of a, for rescuing merchandise from a wreck ... 546

  Report of committee against indemnifying Jenks and sons for loss on a ... 684

• Cook, Aaron, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 142
• Cook, David, allowed to retain his commutation and pension ... 84
• Cook, James, claim of allowed ... 387
• Cook, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Cook, Jonah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 142
• Cook, Nathaniel, claim of for a pension ... 102
• Cook, Rudolph, claim of for a pension ... 92
• Cook, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110
• Cook, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Coomb, Griffith, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 178
• Coombs, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Coomes, Solomon, claim of allowed ... 397
• Coon, James, claim of allowed ... 387
• Coon, James, Lieutenant, half-pay not granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Cooney, James, claim of for a pension ... 101
• Cooper, John, claim of for a pension ... 96, 165
• Cooper, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 389
• Copelind, William, claim of allowed ... 390
• Coplan, Reuben, claim of allowed ... 398
• Copp, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrears due on his pension ... 58, 108
• Coran, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 403
• Corker, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Corlis, Samuel, claim of for extra pay and bounty land, report of committee against the ... 835
• Corry, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cottle, Dide, claim of allowed ... 392
• Cotton, Daniel, claim of for indemnity for loss by the impressment of a vessel by the Bey of Tunis, report of committee against the ... 322

  Report of committee in favor of adjusting the claim of, for detention and use of his ship by the Bey of Tunis ... 337

• Charter-parties and other documents accompanying the claim of 338, ... 341
• Coulon, Paul, petition of for indemnity for losses sustained by the alleged misconduct of the revenue officers, in relation to two prizes brought into the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, by a French privateer, report of committee against the ... 251

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• Coulon, Paul, report of the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a statement of facts in relation to the claim of ... 251
• Coulter, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Coulter, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Counterfeiters, report of a committee against the claim of J. Doyle for pursuing and apprehending certain ... 452, 664
• Couper, Edward, claim of allowed ... 388
• Court-house at Cincinnati, report of a committee in favor of paying for the damages sustained by the burning of the, while occupied as barracks ... 474

  Of Clinton county, New York, report of a committee in favor of making compensation for the destruction of the ... 477

• Courtney, Francis, claim of for a pension ... 92
• Courtney, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Covenah, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 404
• Covenhoven, Peter, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing him, besides his half-pay, his expenses incurred in consequence of severe wounds ... 71
• Covington, Henry, claim of allowed ... 406
• Cowen, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Cowen, John, report of a committee against the claim of for shoes and forage furnished to a company of volunteers ... 582
• Cox, Barney, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cox, Isaac, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 180
• Cox, John, claim of allowed ... 387
• Cox, John P., a paymaster of militia, report of a committee against granting him indemnity for money lost ... 449
• Cox, Joseph, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 110, 140, 389
• Cox, Phineas, claim of for a pension ... 92
• Cox, Samuel S., claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 180
• Cox, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Cozzens, Richard, claim of allowed ... 403
• Craddock, Robert, claim of allowed ... 400
• Craig, James, claim of allowed ... 398
• Craig, John, report of a committee in favor of remunerating him for his revolutionary sufferings ... 410
• Craig, Michael, claim of allowed ... 404
• Cranbury, Francis. (See Mary Hibbon.)
• Crane, Albert, report of a committee against the claim of for materials, &c. for the erection of barracks ... 839
• Crane, John, Colonel, claim of for a pension ... 87
• Crane, William, Lieutenant, claim of for a pension ... 97, 172
• Cranston, Abner, Major, seven years' half-pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Crawford, Henry, claim of for a pension ... 95
• Crawford, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 393
• Crawford, Robert, claim of allowed ... 404
• Crawford, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Creamer, John, claim of for a pension ... 92, 165
• Credit for lost vouchers, report of a committee in favor of allowing to S. King, in his accounts ... 598
• Credits given in lieu of army commissioners' certificates cancelled, amount of barred by acts of limitation ... 384

  Report of a committee in favor of providing for the payment of, by law ... 411

  Report of a committee against suspending the acts of limitation barring claims for ... 414

• Credits for the pay of the army, for which no certificates were issued, amount of, barred by acts of limitation ... 384

  Report of a committee in favor of providing for the payment of, by law ... 411

  Report of a committee against suspending the acts of limitation barring claims for ... 414

• Crim, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Crocker, Benjamin, claim of for a pension ... 140
• Crombie, James, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 161
• Crook, Henry, claim of allowed ... 406
• Crosby, John, and John, jun., report of a committee granting compensation to, for loss of a wharf and storehouse ... 478
• Crosby, Simon, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 114
• Crosley, George, claim of allowed ... 395
• Cross, Robert, claim of allowed ... 396
• Crosson, Robert, claim of allowed ... 392
• Crothell, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 405
• Crow, Adam, claim of allowed ... 397
• Crow, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Crowder, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Crowell, Thomas, claim of for a pension ... 151
• Crozier, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Crummet, James, claim of for a pension ... 85
• Cullen, James, claim of allowed ... 396
• Cummings, James, claim of allowed ... 389
• Cummins, Stewart, a clerk, claim of for further compensation, report of a committee against the ... 79
• Currier, Henry, claim of for a pension ... 137
• Curtis, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114
• Curtis, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 392
• Curtis, William, claim of for a pension ... 160
• Curwell, Peter, claim of allowed ... 403
• Cushman, George, claim of allowed ... 390
• Cutler, Jervis, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of, for pay, &c. after his commission in the army had expired ... 411
• Cutts, Thomas, reports of committee against the claim of, for loss on the purchase of a vessel illegally sold for the benefit of the United States ... 432, 436, 467

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the claim of ... 433

• D.
• Daggs, Hezekiah, claim of for retained rations, report of a committee against the ... 417
• Dailey and Thompson, Canadian refugees, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to ... 502, 608
• Dalby, William, claim of for a pension ... 122
• Dale, Richard, Commodore, claim of sea stores while in command of the ship Ganges, report of a committee in favor of the ... 424

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• Dale, Richard, Lieutenant, claim of allowed ... 388
• Damages, See indemnity.
• Dana, Edmund, claim of for the wages due to soldiers who deserted, died, or were discharged while in his debt, report of a committee against the ... 462
• Dana, William, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 215
• Danforth, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Dangerfield, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Daniels, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 389
• Darborrow, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Dardin, Amey, report of a committee in favor of the claim of, for a horse impressed into the military service ... 377
• Darling, Oliver, claim of for a pension ... 156
• Darlington, Joseph, and others, representatives of George Wilson, report of committee against the claim of for a pension ... 276
• Darrah, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Darrow, Peter, claim of allowed ... 389
• Davenport, Addington, claim of allowed ... 390
• Davenport, Hezekiah, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Davenport, Jonathan, claim of for a pension ... 91, 172
• David, John T., a defaulting paymaster, report of a committee investigating the evidence on which a suit between the United States and him was decided ... 866
• Davidson, George, claim of allowed ... 397
• Davidson, Joshua, claim of for a pension ... 122, 164
• Davidson, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Davis, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Davis, Edmund, claim of allowed ... 403
• Davis, Edward, claim of allowed ... 403
• Davis, Evan, claim of allowed ... 403
• Davis, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 404
• Davis, Henry, claim of allowed ... 400
• Davis, Isaac, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93, 165, 401
• Davis, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Davis, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 404
• Davis, John, claim of allowed ... 391, 395, 398, 402, 404
• Davis, Nathan, claim of for a pension ... 93
• Davis & Smith, claim of allowed ... 400
• Davis, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 389, 401
• Dawson, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Dawson, Joshua, claim of for further compensation for doing his duty as a clerk, while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia, report of a committee in favor of ... 79
• Dawson, William, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Dayton, Elias, claim of allowed ... 398
• Dean, James, claim of for a pension ... 160
• Dean, Lemuel, claim of for a pension ... 159
• Dean, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 396
• De Beaumarchais, Caron. (See Beaumarchais, Caron de.)
• Debenture bonds, report of a committee against a claim for interest on certain ... 582
• Debevier, Francis S., claim of allowed ... 406
• De Britigny, Marquis, claim of allowed ... 388
• Debt, unfunded or registered, amount of ... 209
• Debtors, public, report of a committee recommending provision to be made for securing the interest of the United States in suits against ... 867
• Decamps, P., claim of the estate of for the renewal of certain certificates disallowed ... 258
• Decastando, John, claim of for indemnity for injury to his property allowed ... 522
• Decision of a district court in the case of a defaulting paymaster, report of a committee of the grounds of a ... 866
• Decree of the Supreme Court in a case of illegal capture and loss of a vessel and cargo ... 360
• Defalcation, report of a committee in favor of tho petition of Theodore Fowler, an army contractor, to be relieved from a suit commenced against him for certain moneys advanced by the Government ... 259

  Report of a committee against releasing a defaulting collector of revenue from the payment of a judgment against him ... 313

  Report of the Secretary of War, in favor of relieving D. Henley, a paymaster general and general agent for the territory southwest of the Ohio, from a balance found against him in settling his accounts ... 418

  Report of committee in favor of releasing the sureties of a defaulting collector of revenue ... 449

  Report of a committee against releasing the surety of a defaulting postmaster ... 534, 795

  Of the clerk of the district court of New York, report of a committee disclosing the ... 587

  Report of a committee in favor of relieving a defaulting postmaster and his surety ... 830

  Of a deputy paymaster, report of a committee of the grounds on which a decision of court was rendered, a case of ... 866

  Report of a committee in favor of granting relief in the case of the defalcation of a collector of customs ... 880

  Of an army paymaster, report of a committee against granting relief in a case of ... 881

• Defective title to a lot sold for the benefit of the United States, report of a committee against the claim of a purchaser for indemnity against a ... 678
• Defence of Baltimore, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of Taylor & McNeal, for scows sunk for the ... 466

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing indemnity for vessels sunk for the ... 741, 892

• De Grasse, Count, report of committee in favor of making provision for the children of the, in consideration of his revolutionary services ... 206
• De Haas, John P., claim of allowed ... 390
• De Kalb, Baron, report of committee against granting arrears of pay to the heirs of the ... 702, 758
• De Klyn, Barnt, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office and final settlement certificates, not allowed 258
• Delafield, John, reports of committee in favor of the claim of for the funding, with interest, of sundry loan office certificates ... 463, 496, 598

  Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the claim of ... 465

• Delano, Seth, claim of for an invalid pension ... 86
• De la Ronde, Pierre Denis, report of committee allowing in part the claim of for property destroyed during the invasion of Louisiana ... 759
• Delassize, John, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for losses by the enemy during the late war ... 461

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• Demarest Joan, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 180
• Demsey, Luke, claim of allowed ... 395
• Demurrage and expense, report of the Secretary of the Navy on the claim of Robert Elwell for ... 363

  Opinion of the Attorney General against said claim ... 363

• Dench Gilbert, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity against loss by depreciation ... 193
• Dennis, Levi, claim of allowed ... 395
• Dennison, Fortune, claim of allowed ... 390
• Dennison, Prince, claim of for a pension ... 141
• Deposites in a continental loan office, claim of S. Ingram for, barred by statute of limitation ... 638
• Depreciation, report of committee against the claim of Gilbert Dench, for loss by ... 193

  Claim of J. Jay for indemnity against loss by, allowed ... 421

  See Indemnity.

• Depreciation of pay not provided for by law, reports against claims for ... 29

  Report of committee against the claim of E. Brooke for ... 410, 532

• Depredation by the Indians, claims for indemnity for loss by, not to be taken out of the course prescribed by treaties ... 193, 222
• Deputy Quartermaster General, report of committee on the state of the accounts of a ... 480

  Report of a committee against the claim of the heirs of a, for arrears of pay, depreciation, and bounty land ... 706

• Deserters, report of the Secretary of State on a claim for the rewards promised by the resolve of the 27th August, 1776 ... 27

  Bounty land and arrears of pay allowed to a deserter ... 607

  Report of committee against allowing compensation to a British deserter ... 704

• Deslondes, Rosalie P., report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to for property destroyed by the British in 1814,--'15 ... 752
• Detroit, report of the Secretary of State on the petition of sundry inhabitants of for indemnity for losses sustained by the surrender of Michigan Territory to the enemy in 1812 ... 529
• Devaughn, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Devens, Richard, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Deviennes, M., report of committee in favor of his claim for payment for his military services ... 614
• De Villiers, Jumonville, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for losses by the enemy in the late war ... 461

  Report of committee in favor of allowing indemnity to for damage done to his plantation by the troops of the United States in the defence of New Orleans ... 521

• Devilliers, Jumonville, report of a committee against the claim of for property destroyed during the invasion of Louisiana by the enemy ... 835
• Dewees, Sarah, claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy in 1777, allowed ... 522
• Dewees, William, report of committee in favor of the claim of for property destroyed by the enemy at Valley Forge ... 74

  Report of a committee against the claim of for further indemnity ... 754

• Dewley, Robert, claim of allowed ... 396
• Dexter, Samuel, late Secretary of War, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for expenses of a suit against him for the loss by fire of a house occupied as a War office ... 250
• Dibble, Israel, certificate of for a pension ... 167
• Dieffendorph, Jacob, Lieut., claim of for a pension ... 145
• Difference between the prices at which certain loans were made, reports of committee against allowing the amount of the to a lender ... 771, 824
• Dillon, John, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for loss by the illegal condemnation and sale of his vessel ... 421
• Dimon, David, Lieut. Col., seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Dimond, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397
• Ding, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Diplomatic services, report of State in favor of granting compensation for, to Stephen Sayre ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of allowing compensation for to Stephen Sayre ... 123

  Report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of the widow of William Carmichael for ... 200

  Report of a committee on the petition of Stephen Sayre for compensation for, granting him leave to withdraw ... 223

  Report of a committee in Favor of the claim of William Tazewell the for compensation for ... 239

  Report of a committee in the claim of Moses Young for compensation for ... 380

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of the heirs Colonel J. Laurens for compensation for ... 607

• Disbursements, report of a committee allowing the claim of Daniel D. Tompkins for commissions on ... 884

  Report of a committee against the claim of a deputy commissary of purchases for interest on ... 886

• Discretionary power to call out the militia of Georgia to serve at the expense of the Government given to the Governor of said State ... 515
• Dishiell, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 392
• Dismissed officer, claim of a, for a pension rejected ... 333
• District court of New York, report of a committee on the embezzlement of the funds of the ... 587
• Divinnay, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Dixon, Henry, claim of allowed ... 393
• Dixon, Jared, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119
• Dixon, John, claim of for a final settlement certificate barred by act of limitation ... 416
• Dixon, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 403
• Doane, Paul, claim of allowed ... 399
• Dobbes, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 405
• Dogherty, Patrick, claim of for a pension ... 105
• Doherty, James, claim of allowed ... 402
• Dohrman, Arnold H., memorial of to Congress for compensation for his services and losses in the American cause ... 510

  Report of a committee allowing annuities to the widow and children of for his services ... 508

  Resolutions of Congress rewarding the services of ... 512

  An act for the relief of the widow and children of ... 514

• Doile, Henry, claim of allowed ... 391
• Dolbear, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 388
• Dole, James, Lieutenant, claim of for a pension ... 95
• Donnison, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 396
• Dorman, Gorsham, claim of for a pension ... 89, 172
• Dougherty, Charles, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Dougherty, Edward, claim of allowed ... 393
• Dougherty, Michael, claim of allowed ... 392
• Doughty, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 394
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• Douglass, Charles, report of a committee against the claim of for goods captured by the troops of the United States ... 793
• Douglass, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 396
• Douglass, William, late Colonel, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of his widow for seven years' half-pay ... 22
• Douthet, Samuel, report of a committee against the claim of for Indian depredations ... 593
• Dow, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 403
• Dow, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Downer, Eliphalet, claim of for a pension ... 151
• Downman, Rawleigh, claim of allowed ... 395
• Downs, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 154
• Doyal, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Doyle, James, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for pursuing and apprehending certain counterfeiters ... 452, 664
• Doyle, Robert, claim of allowed ... 392
• Doyle, Thomas. claim of allowed ... 395
• Drafts drawn by the Paymaster General, report of a committee against allowing a claim for the payment of certain ... 863
• Dragoons. (See Georgia militia Claims.)
• Drayton, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 389
• Driver, Henry, claim of allowed ... 396
• Driver, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Duartis, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 396
• Dubbs, Martin, report of a committee against the claim of for beef furnished to the troops in 1814 ... 556
• Dubevere. Francis S., a surgeon's mate who remained in captivity to the close of the war, report of the Secretary of War in favor of his claim for pay ... 26
• Dubois, Lewis, claim of allowed ... 402
• Dachouquet, Francis, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for certain moneys advanced by him for the ransom of certain American citizens from the Indians ... 256
• Duffey, Barney, claim of allowed ... 388
• Duffey, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Duffield, Anthony, claim of allowed ... 400
• Duffield, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 391
• Dulany, William, claim allowed ... 390
• Dunbar, Joseph, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114, 142
• Duncan, Gaspar, claim of allowed ... 399
• Dunham, Azariah, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Dunham, Silas, half-pay not allowed to the representatives of by the State of Connecticut ... 72
• Dunham, Stephen, claim of for a pension ... 90
• Dunlap, Robert, claim of allowed ... 397
• Dunn, Charles, claim of allowed ... 390
• Dunton, William, claim of for a pension ... 98
• Dunster, Peter, claim of allowed ... 390
• Dupee, Thomas. claim of allowed ... 391
• Durkee, John, Colonel, half-pay not allowed to the representatives of by the State of Connecticut ... 72
• Durkee, John, late colonel, report of a committee in favor of the claim of the heirs of, for seven years' half-pay ... 417
• Duvall, George, claim of allowed ... 404
• Dyer, Caleb, claim of allowed ... 389
• Dyer, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 164, 398
• E.
• Eadus, William, report of a committee against the claim of, for indemnity for property destroyed by the British. in 1813 ... 554
• Eakins, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 389
• Eastman, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due pension ... 58, 108, 161
• Easton, Eliphalet, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114
• Easton, James, Colonel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110
• Easton, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114
• Easton, Sarah, and D. Storer, report of a committee against the claim of, for commutation and bounty land ... 847

  Memorial and documents relating to said claim ... 850

• Eaton, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110
• Eaton, William, claim of for cousular services at Tunis, report of a committee against the ... 299--307

  Claim of for consular services, report of a committee directing a settlement of the ... 323

  Letters of the Secretaries of War and State in relation to the claim of ... 324

  Correspondence on said claim ... 324--332

• Eayres, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Eccleston, Mary, report of a committee in favor of releasing her from responsibility as surety to a defaulting collector ... 449
• Eddy, George, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 180
• Eddy, John , claim of allowed ... 396
• Eddy, Willard, claim of allowed ... 404
• Edegh, Jacob, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Edgar, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 388
• Edgecombe, Samuel, certificate of for a pension ... 141
• Edmunson, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 388
• Edmonston, William, claim of allowed ... 392
• Edwards, Charles, claim of allowed ... 387
• Edwards, Edmund, claim of allowed ... 398
• Edwards, Hezekiah, claim of allowed ... 395
• Edwards, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Edy, Samuel, claim of for arrears of pay, report of committee in favor of the ... 199
• Eghill, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Eldridge, Daniel. report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 118
• Eldridge, James B., report of committee against the claim of for services and supplies to the army of the Revolution ... 831
• Elkins, Johnson, claim of allowed ... 403
• Elliot, Bernard, late lieutenant colonel, claim of his son to seven years' half-pay admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30

  Claim of adjusted and allowed at the Treasury Department ... 388

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• Elliott, Ann, report of committee against granting relief to, her husband having been killed by the Indians while an army contractor ... 282

  Report of a committee in favor of said claim ... 297

• Elliott, Benjamin, claim, of allowed ... 395
• Elliott, James, claim of allowed ... 394
• Elliott, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Ellis, Edward, claim of allowed ... 404
• Ellis, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Ellis, Michael, claim of allowed ... 395
• Ellis, Richard, claim of allowed ... 390
• Ellis, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Elsditt, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Elwell, Robert, report of the Secretary of the Navy on the claim of for demurrage and expenses of a vessel chartered by the United States, and captured for want necessary documents ... 363

  Opinion of the Attorney General against said claim ... 363

  Minutes of the judgment of the high court of admiralty of England on said claim ... 364

• Ely, John, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing him the pay of a regimental surgeon during the time he attended the American prisoners on Long Island ... 7
• Embargo laws in Massachusetts, report of committee in favor of the claim of Charles Bean for services and expenses in assisting to enforce the ... 382
• Embezzlement of funds of the district court of New York, report of committee disclosing the ... 587

  Of certain prize money by the clerk of a district court in New York, report of committee against granting indemnity for the ... 679

• Emerson, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 388
• Emery, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 390
• Emery, Samuel, claim of for certain quartermaster's certificates, inadmissible ... 178
• Emson, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Eno, Martin, an ensign, seven years' half-pay allowed to the heirs and representatives of ... 72
• Erskine, Charles, claim of allowed ... 390, 399
• Estis, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Evans, Edward, claims of allowed ... 390
• Evans, Moses, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 114
• Evans, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 405
• Everett, Jeremiah, claim of for a pension ... 157
• Evidence, rules of adopted in adjusting claims for property destroyed by the enemy ... 690

  Investigation of the, by which the United States was cast in a suit against a defaulting public agent ... 866

  For obtaining pensions, opinion of the Attorney General as to the time of completing the ... 893

• Ewell, Maxcy, claim of allowed ... 403
• Expedition under Colonel Arnold, report of committee against the claim of R. Colburn for supplies furnished to the ... 667
• Expenses of foreign officers for their passage to the United States, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing the ... 18

  (Medical and other,) incurred by a wounded officer, allowed with interest ... 23

  Claim of the State of Kentucky for, incurred in certain Indian expeditions, report of the Secretary of War against the ... 79

  Of negotiating an Indian treaty, report of committee in favor of allowing the to Arthur St. Clair ... 73, 80

  Claim of the widow of Wm. Carmichael for, while chargé des affaires at Spain, report of the Secretary of State in favor of allowing the ... 200

  Claim of Mr. Tazewell for, incurred in the discharge of his diplomatic functions, report of committee in favor of allowing the ... 239

  Of defending a suit, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Samuel Dexter, late Secretary of War, for ... 250

  (Travelling) of officers of the army, to be settled by the Secretary of War ... 308

  Report of committee on the claim of W. A. Barron for ... 308

  (Funeral and medical,) of soldier at home on furlough, Government not answerable for ... 552

  (Judicial) report of committee against the claim of a paymaster of militia for indemnity against certain ... 682

  (Judicial) report of committee against allowing indemnity to a collector of revenue against certain ... 450

  Of seizing a vessel for a supposed violation of the embargo laws, report of a committee in favor allowing the claim of the American consul at Cadiz for ... 737

• Extra pay, report of a committee against the claim of S. Howard for ... 847

  (Three months') promised to soldiers who enlisted for five years under the act of the 14th January, 1812 ... 847

• Extra services, claim of a deputy commissary of purchases for compensation for, report of a committee against the ... 886
• Eyers, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119, 156
• F.
• Fabian, Jonathan, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Fack, Joseph, claim of ... 338
• Farmer, Lewis, claim of allowed ... 403
• Farmer, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Farnsworth, Levi, claim of for a pension ... 109, 140
• Farnum, Benjamin, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110, 150
• Farrer, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 392
• Farrer, Thomas, report, of a committee allowing the claim of for assisting in taking the third census in South Carolina ... 472

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of allowing the ... 472

• Fatheree, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 403
• Fauche, Jonas, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Faup, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 392
• Fay, Joseph, Ensign, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Fearing, Paul, proceedings of the House of Representatives in relation to his claim to a seat in said House ... 311
• Felch, William, report of a committee against the claim of for further compensation as a clerk ... 79

  Fellows, David, late ensign, half-pay not allowed by the State of Connecticut to the representatives of ... 72

  Claim of allowed ... 389

• Felter, Peter, claim of for a pension ... 126
• Fenner, Robert, claim of allowed ... 389

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• Fenno, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 390
• Ferguson, James, report of a committee against the claim of for apprehending an offender ... 588
• Fielding, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 159
• Fielding, Eppa, claim of allowed ... 395
• Fifield, John, claim of allowed ... 387
• Filmore, Henry, jun., claim of for a pension ... 167
• Final settlement certificates. (See certificates.)
• Finance, the superintendent of to discharge the duties of the Navy and Admiralty boards until the appointment of a marine agent ... 705
• Finck, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 396
• Fines and costs of suit for a violation of the sedition law, report of a committee in favor of refunding the to M. Lyon ... 737
• Finley, William, sergeant, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Firmie, William, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against allowing his claims for expenses while settling his public accounts, for indemnity for loss on a certificate issued for a balance due him, for depreciation and pay as a commissary of military stores, and for land as a colonel in the army ... 16
• Firringer, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Fisher, James C. and S. W., claim of for depreciation on a loan office certificate, inadmissible at the Treasury ... 179
• Fisher, John, claim of for the depreciation of certain new emission bills, inadmissible at the Treasury ... 179
• Fisher, Joshua, and sons, claim of allowed ... 399
• Fishere, Johannes, claim of deemed inadmissible at the Treasury ... 180
• Fisk, John, amount of certificate issued to him ... 398
• Fitch, Jabez, claim of allowed ... 397
• Fitch, Lemuel, report of a committee against discharging him from the suretyship of an insolvent postmaster ... 795
• Fitch, Moses, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110, 162
• Fitzgerald, James, claim of allowed ... 395
• Flag of truce to the hostile Indians, report of a committee in favor of compensating C. Miller for risk in carrying a ... 689
• Flagg, Jonathan, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Flannegan, Daniel, claim of to an invalid pension ... 93
• Flannigain & Parsons, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity for loss on a contract ... 585
• Fleetwood, Johnson, claim of allowed ... 388
• Fleming, William, claim of allowed ... 394, 396
• Fletcher, Ebenezer, certificate of his disability ... 136
• Flinn, Nancy, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to, her husband having been killed by the Indians while an interpreter ... 312
• Flood, William, claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy, report of a committee in favor of allowing the ... 462
• Floridi, Francis, claim of allowed ... 394
• Flotilla service, report of a committee against allowing the claim of Taylor & O'Neal, for a vessel lost in the ... 454
• Flowers, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 405
• Flying camp in the middle colonies, resolve of Congress of June 3, 1776, establishing a ... 845
• Fogler, Simon, claim of for an invalid pension ... 104
• Footman, --, report of a committee against the claim of for further compensation as a clerk ... 79
• Forage, list of claims for disallowed ... 429
• Forbes, Daniel, claim of for a pension, ... 98
• Forbes, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Force, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 390
• Ford, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 406
• Ford, James, certificate of for a pension ... 135
• Ford, William, claim of allowed ... 403
• Foreman, --, report of a committee against allowing further compensation to as a clerk ... 79
• Forfeitures. (See breach of the revenue laws.)
• Forest, Joseph, reports of a committee of the House of Representatives, against allowing the claim of for indemnity for the loss of a vessel chartered for the public service ... 438, 527

  Report of the Secretary of State on said claim ... 528

  Report of a committee of Senate against said claim ... 543

  Reports of committee of Senate in favor of allowing said claim ... 642, 875

• Fortification, report of a committee in favor of rewarding an invention of a new mode of mounting cannon on ... 320
• Foster, George, claim of allowed ... 394
• Foster, Hachaliah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Foster, Hannah, report of committee against allowing the claim of for arrears of pay due to her late husband ... 368
• Foster, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 85, 405
• Forsythe and Kenzie, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of, for horses and mules lost in the public service ... 424

  Report of committee against the claim of for whiskey and gunpowder destroyed at Chicago ... 424

• Fowle, Susannah, widow of an officer who died in service, report of committee against the petition of ... 222
• Fowler, Benjamin, Lt. Col. half pay not allowed to the representatives of by the State of Connecticut ... 72
• Fowler, Benjamin, private, claim of for an invalid pension ... 91
• Fowler, Christopher, report of committee against allowing the claim of for sundry final settlement certificates ... 672
• Fowler, George, statement of the amount of his property destroyed by the riot in 1794 ... 237
• Fowler, Robert, claim of allowed ... 399
• Fowler, Samuel G., and Christopher, administrators of Samuel Fowler, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for a counterfeit final settlement certificate ... 189
• Fowler, Theodosius, an army contractor, report of committee in favor of releasing him from the payment of a balance found to be due to the United States on his accounts, and of stopping a suit commenced for the recovery of said balance ... 259
• Fox, Jacob, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101, 165
• Fox, Joel, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Fox, John, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for arrears of pay ... 68
• Fox, William P., claim of for an invalid pension ... 157
• Francis, Aaron, claim of allowed ... 389
• Francis, Ebenezer, late Colonel, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Frank, John, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of for his pay as a soldier during his captivity to the Indians ... 208

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• Franklin, Esom, claim of allowed ... 400
• Franklin, Thomas, claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, inadmissible at the Treasury ... 176
• Frazier, James, claim of allowed ... 389
• Frazier, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 395
• Frazier, Mary, report of committee against allowing indemnity for a house burnt by the enemy in 1814 ... 555
• Frazier, Solomon, report of committee in favor of releasing him from responsibility as a surety to a defaulting collector of revenue ... 449
• Frauds and failures of sub-agents, report of committee in favor of releasing D. D. Tompkins from responsibility for the ... 884
• Fraudulent claims, report of committee recommending prosecutions to be instituted to detect perjuries in support of ... 590
• Frederick, David, claim of allowed ... 389
• Frederick, widow, Manly, claim of inadmissible at the Treasury ... 180
• Freeman, Francis, claim of allowed ... 390
• Freeman, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 401
• Freeman, Steph., claim of allowed ... 392
• French and Kinsley, contractors for the delivery of arms, report of committee in favor of compensating them for an increase in the cost of the work by a change in the pattern ... 594
• Fricker, Anthony, claim of allowed ... 387
• Friend, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• Frisbee, Gideon, a refugee from Canada, report of committee in favor of granting relief to ... 457
• Frisbie, Jacob, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Frisby, Richard, report of committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814 ... 597, 639
• Frizzle, Elisha, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Frost, George P., and others, report of committee against the claims of for certain lost certificates ... 216
• Frost, Joseph, claim of for a pension ... 162
• Frothingham, Thomas, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the troops of the United States ... 199
• Fry, Thomas, midshipman, amount of certificate issued to him ... 394
• Fry Thomas, & Co., claim of allowed ... 390
• Fulfords, John, sergeant, claim off or an invalid pension ... 88
• Fulham, George, sergeant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 128, 165
• Fuller, Elisha, claim of allowed ... 397
• Fuller, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 391
• Fuller, Stephen, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Fundebou, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397
• Funeral charges and expenses of attending sick soldiers on furlough, the Government not answerable for ... 552
• Funk, George, claim of allowed ... 405
• Funk, Henry, claim of allowed ... 390
• Furnham, Benjamin, claim of inadmissible at the Treasury ... 180
• G.
• Gaze, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 400
• Gall, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Gallard, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Galvan, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Gamble, Robert, claim of allowed ... 401
• Gardiner, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 389
• Gardiner, John, Lieut., claim of for militia services ... 506
• Gardner, Joana, widow of Col. Thomas Gardner, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing her seven years& half-pay ... 70
• Gardner, John, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Gardner, William, commissioner of loans, report of Secretary of the Treasury in favor of allowing an increase of compensation to ... 147
• Gardner, William, claim of for a pension, allowed ... 402
• Garlington, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 396
• Garnet, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Garret, Alexander, claim of for an invalid pension ... 170
• Garrick, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 401
• Garrison, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 399
• Garrot, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 401
• Garrow. Samuel H., report of committee against allowing the claim of for a vessel captured by the enemy ... 596
• Gates, Henry, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110
• Gates, Stephen, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119
• Gatewood, Grafton, claim of allowed ... 404
• Gelston & Schenck, report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to, against a judgment obtained against them, for the seizure of the ship American Eagle, under instructions from the Treasury Department ... 601
• George, Moses S., claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Georgia militia claims, report of the Secretary of War on the petitions of sundry officers and soldiers of the Georgia militia, for compensation for services during the Indian hostilities of 1792 ... 226

  Statement of facts in relation to the, by Constant Freeman ... 233

  Report of the Secretary of War transmitting the correspondence and documents relating to the ... 277

  Reports of committees suggesting the expediency of making provision by law for the payment of said claims ... 284, 504, 515, 864

  Report of committee against the claims of Randolph & McGillis for militia service in the State of Georgia ... 289

  Militia claims of the State of, to be liquidated by said State when created within her jurisdiction ... 289

  Considered as included in the convention between the United States and said State ... 289, 290

  Report of committee against the memorial of the State of Georgia praying payment for the services of the militia of that State in 1792, '93, and '94 ... 856

  Memorial of the Legislature of Georgia to the President of the United States, asking payment of the claims of the militia of said State for services in the year 1792, '93, and '94 ... 857

• Gheon, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Gibbons, John, treasurer of the State of Georgia, claim of for a final settlement certificate for the adjustment of the claims of said State for the pay and commutation of half-pay of officers of the Georgia line, and for interest on the same ... 185
• Gibbs, Samuel, report of committee in favor of granting relief to for certain lost loan office certificates ... 637
• Gibson, Anna, claim of for certain old emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Gibson, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 405

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• Gibson, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 392
• Gibson, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• Giddings, Edward, report of committee in favor of indemnifying him for property destroyed by the United States troops in 1799 ... 361
• Gideon, Jacob, reports of committee against the claim of for compensation for giving information of a breach of the revenue laws ... 285
• Gilbert, Allen, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Gilbert, Burr, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 167
• Gilbert, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Gilham, James, report of committee against allowing the claim of for a return of ransom money paid by him to redeem his family from captivity to the Indians ... 313
• Gill, Moses, of for sundry loan office certificates, inadmissible ... 179
• Gillet, Joel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Gillman, John T., report of committee against the claim of for endorsing bill of the new emission ... 181, 190
• Gilman, Joshua, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 136
• Gilmore, or Gillman, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 170
• Girardeau, John B. anti others, report of the Secretary of War on their claim for services as dragoons in the Georgia militia in 1796 ... 226
• Gladhill, Ely, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Glascon, Henry, claim of allowed ... 395
• Glean, Oliver, claim of allowed ... 394
• Gleason, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 109
• Gleason, Windsor, claim of for an invalid pension ... 161
• Glentworth, George, sen., claim of allowed ... 389
• Gneisley, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• Goddard, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 393
• Goddard, James, report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy ... 489
• Godfrey, John W., claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, inadmissible ... 176

  Report of a committee against said claim ... 548

• Goff, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 389
• Gold, Daniel, and others, militiamen, report of a committee in favor of allowing their claim for money lost by their agent ... 457
• Gonnan, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Gooden, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 405
• Gooding and Williams, reports of committees in favor of granting them bounty on slaves captured from a British privateer ... 655, 757
• Goodridge, Ezekiel, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Goodridge, Joseph, report of his monthly pay, and arrears due on his pension ... 58, 109, 137
• Goodwin, Britain, claim of allowed ... 402
• Goodwin, Micajah, claim of allowed ... 400
• Goodwin, Uriah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110, 160
• Goodwine, Daniel, report of a committee against the claim of for rent of a wharf, &c. used as a ship yard during the Revolution ... 704
• Goodyear, Theophilus, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Goosemould, Henry, claim of allowed ... 404
• Gor, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 393
• Gordon, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 399
• Gordon, George, claim of allowed ... 390
• Gordon, James, claim of allowed ... 398
• Gordon, Moses and John, claim of for property destroyed by the troops, in 1799, report of a committee in favor of allowing the ... 361
• Gordon, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 395
• Gordon, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Gore, Ashford, claim of allowed ... 399
• Gore, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 401
• Gore, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 398
• Gorman, John, claim of allowed ... 406
• Gould, Asa, claim of for an invalid pension ... 166
• Gould, David, late hospital surgeon, report of tile Secretary of War in favor of tile claim of his children to seven years' half-pay ... 21
• Goulds, Benjamin, claim of for all invalid pension ... 125, 172
• Graaf, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Grace, John, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and the arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Gragg, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Grant, Jesse, Captain, claim of for a pension ... 142, 172
• Grant, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Grant, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Grant, Vincent, report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to, for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1813, ... 672
• Grant, William, claim of allowed ... 389
• Grantham, Henry, claim of allowed ... 404
• Grasse, Count de, report of a committee in favor of the memorial of the daughters of the ... 206
• Gratuity, report of a committee in favor of granting a, to Captain John Craig for his Revolutionary sufferings ... 410
• Gray, Amos, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Gray, John, Lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Gray, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 394
• Gray, Pardon, claim of allowed ... 405
• Greely, Joseph, claim of for a pension ... 135
• Gregory, Henry, claim of allowed ... 392
• Green, Cato, claim of allowed ... 403
• Green, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 395
• Green, James, claim of allowed ... 403
• Green, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Green, Jonas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 109
• Green, Joseph, claim of for a pension ... 161
• Green, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 388
• Green, Prince, claim of allowed ... 393
• Green, Wardwell, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 110
• Green, Willis, claim of allowed ... 401
• Greenage, Joshua, claim of allowed ... 396

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• Greene, Cæsar, claim of allowed ... 395
• Greene, Cuff, claim of allowed ... 403
• Greene, Nathaniel, late major general, claim of the widow of for indemnity against the effects of certain engagements by her late husband, entered into on public account, facts reported by the Secretary of the Treasury ... 33

  Report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to the estate of, against said engage ments ... 189

  Report of a committee on the petition of the widow of, praying indemnity against said engagements ... 191

  Report of a committee investigating the facts relative to the demands against which the United States have indemnified the estate of General Greene, as surety of John Banks & Co. ... 210

  Report of a committee on the claims of the surviving partner of the late, in the office of the Quartermaster General, for a commission of one per cent. on an estimate of unascertained disbursements by them in said office ... 242

• Greenough, William, claim of allowed ... 388
• Greenup, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 401
• Griffin, Anthony, claim of allowed ... 400
• Griffin, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 402
• Griffin, Greenbury, report of a committee against granting indemnity to, for a vessel captured by the enemy while carrying the mail ... 587
• Griffin, John, claim of allowed 389 Griffith, George, claim of allowed ... 395
• Griggs, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Grimes, George, claim of allowed ... 392
• Grimes, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Groman, Rudolph, claim of allowed ... 394
• Groom, Richard, claim of allowed ... 401
• Grorr, Peter, claim of allowed ... 391
• Grose, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Grover, Amasa, claim of for an invalid pension ... 166
• Guillam, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Guillon, Francis, claim of for arrears of pay, report of a committee in favor of the ... 199
• Guion, Frederick, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 177
• Gunn, James, claim of allowed ... 387, 392
• Guthrie, George, claim of allowed ... 387
• Guy, Richard, claim of allowed ... 388
• Gwinn, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• H.
• Haas, John P. de, claim of allowed ... 390
• Habersham, John, claim of the executors of for relief from a second payment of certain bills of exchange, report of a committee in favor of the ... 298
• Hackley, Richard S., report of a committee in favor of the claim of for expenses incurred by the seizure of a ship at Cadiz for a supposed violation of the embargo laws ... 737
• Hackworth, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Haddock, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 401
• Hagarthy, George, claim of allowed ... 395
• Hager, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Hagers, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Haggerty, Eleanor, report of a committee against the claim of for allowance during the time of her imprisonment as a witness in default of security ... 263
• Hagues, Aaron, claim of allowed ... 394
• Haines, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hake, Hannes, claim of allowed ... 405
• Aaron, claim of allowed ... 394
• Hale, Joseph, claim of for a pension ... 151
• Hale, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 388
• Hale, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Halley, John, Captain, claim for a pension ... 170
• Half-Pay, list of officers who died in service and to whom no half-pay was granted by the State of Connecticut ... 72

  Report of a committee against indemnifying the estate of General Moses Hazen for the loss of half-pay from the British Government, in consequence of his joining the American army ... 729

  (For life) report of a committee against allowing the claim of sundry surviving officers of the Revolution for an equitable settlement of their ... 591

  (For life) officers who continued in service until the end of the war entitled to ... 611

  (For life) report of a committee on the claims of sundry surviving officers of the Revolution to ... 611

  Report of a committee in favor of adjusting said claims ... 677

  (Seven years') report of the Secretary of War in favor of relaxing the limitations of the resolve of the 2d November, 1785, in favor of allowing to the children of officers who died in service ... 20, 22, 25

  (Seven years') report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting to a widow ... 25

  (Seven years') report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claims of the children of officers to, who died before they were mustered or joined their regiments ... 21, 22

  (Seven years') report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of the children of an officer to, who died on his way to settle his accounts ... 21

  (Seven years') list of officers who belonged to the continental army, who died in service previous to the 28th May, 1778, to whose widows and orphans seven years' half-pay was granted ... 72

  (Seven years') report of committee against the claim of the widow of Captain Welsh to ... 196

  (Seven years') report of committee in favor of the claim of the heir of Col. J. Durkee for ... 417

  (Seven years') report of committee against the claim of the widow and children of Wadleigh Noyes to ... 777

  Resolves of Congress on the subject of ... 758, 777, 804, 847, 848

  Commutation of. (See commutation.)

• Hall, David, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Hall, Gervas, report of committee against the claim of for further compensation as a clerk ... 79
• Hall, Jabez, report of committee against the claim of for certain lost certificates ... 216
• Hall, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Hall, John, a marine officer, report of committee against the claim of for money stolen from him ... 589
• Hall, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 403

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• Hall, Lee, a regimental surgeon, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Hall, London, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hall, Reuben, claim of allowed ... 400
• Hall, William, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 176
• Hamilton, Alexander, late Col., report of committee against the claim of the widow of for commutation ... 370

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 467

• Hamilton, Archibald W., late an officer in the British army, report of committee against allowing the claim of for arrears of pay withheld from him by the British Government on account of his refusing to fight against the United States ... 584
• Hamilton, D., Lieut. claim of for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 506
• Hamilton, James, Jr., claim of allowed ... 404
• Hamilton, James, Sen., claim of allowed ... 399
• Hamilton, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Hamilton, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391, 400
• Hamilton, William, claim of allowed ... 391, 397
• Hamlen, Cornelius, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Hammond, Abner, Captain, claim of for militia services in Georgia ... 506
• Hammond, Prince, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hampton, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hancock, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hancock, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Hancock, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 394
• Handly, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 400
• Handy, Gamaliel, claim of for a pension ... 150
• Hannah, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Hanson, Derrick, claim of allowed ... 389
• Harden, Richard, claim of to an invalid pension ... 104
• Hardie, John, Ensign, claim of for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 506
• Hardy, James, claim of allowed ... 392
• Hare, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 393
• Harkness, George, claim of allowed ... 404
• Harper, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Harper, Richard, claim of allowed ... 392
• Hart, Henry, claim of allowed ... 389
• Harraison, Paul, a collector of revenue, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss of his dwelling house and papers by fire ... 297
• Harrington, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 392
• Harris, Drury, claim of allowed ... 397
• Harris, John, claim of allowed ... 390, 396
• Harris, John, late lieutenant, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of his children for seven years' half-pay ... 20, 70
• Harris, Jonathan, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Harris, William, Ensign, claim of for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 506
• Harrison, R. H., late colonel, report of committee against allowing the claim of the heirs of, for commutation and bounty land ... 847
• Hart, Eli, report of committee of Senate in favor of allowing the claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy in 1813 ... 672

  Report of committee, H. R., recommending the indefinite postponement of a bill from the Senate for the relief of ... 680

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of for interest on a loan, and loss by depreciation ... 692

  Report of committee against allowing said claim ... 793

  Statement of the loss sustained by him on a loan to a government officer ... 794

• Hart, Robert, to what pension entitled ... 105
• Hart, Samuel, claim of to an invalid pension ... 88
• Harvey, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Harvey, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 388, 392
• Haselton, or Hazeltine, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Haskell, Jonathan, a captain, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing him indemnity for the loss of certain public money ... 69

  Report of committee in favor of allowing indemnity for money lost ... 219

• Haskill, Henry, claim of allowed ... 394
• Haskins, Adam, report of committee against allowing the claim of for a pension ... 779
• Haslam, James, claim of allowed ... 400
• Haslam, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Haslett, William, report of the Secretary of State in favor of allowing the claim of, for the loss of a ship which he relinquished his claim for at the instance of the American consul at Tunis, to save certain American property from sequestration by the Bey of Tunis ... 484

  Report of committee approving the report of the Secretary of State on the claim of ... 484

• Hastings, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Hastings, Jonathan, a postmaster, report of committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity against the expenses of defending a vexatious suit ... 285
• Hathaway, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 398
• Havins and Jenkins, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss of a private armed brig in a neutral port ... 503
• Havens, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Hawes, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Hawgerdon, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Hawkins, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Hawkins, Moses, Capt., seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Hawley, Nathan, claim of for a pension ... 167
• Hawks, Henry, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Hawthorn, Nath, claim of allowed ... 400
• Hay, Martha, claim of for cordwood, inadmissible ... 180
• Hay, Udney, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of allowing his claim for interest on a certain promissory note ... 56
• Hayes, James, claim of allowed ... 399, 403
• Hayes, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Haynes, Jonathan, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119, 144
• Haynes, Joshua, claim of for a pension ... 136
• Haynes, William, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hays, William, estate of, claim of the for a quantity of iron purchased for the use of the Quartermaster General's Department, inadmissible ... 181
• Hazard, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 396

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• Hazard, Sampson, claim of allowed ... 405
• Hazen, Moses, late General, report of committee against the claim of the executors of for indemnity for the loss of his half-pay from the British Government in consequence of his joining the American army ... 729
• Hazlehurst, Robert, and others, report of committee against exonerating them from the payment of interest on a judgment obtained against them ... 696
• Hazzard, Richard, claim of allowed ... 403
• Head, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Heaps, John, a mail carrier, killed in service, report of committee in favor of granting relief to the widow of ... 735
• Heard, Abraham, Capt., claim of for militia services in Georgia ... 505
• Heath, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Heath & Renner, report of committee against granting indemnity to for the destruction of a rope walk by the enemy, in 1814 ... 442, 502

  Report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to for loss of said property ... 594

• Hebbard, Elisha, Capt., claim of for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 506
• Hebner, Frederick, report of committee against allowing the claim of for powder supplied to the Government ... 194
• Hebron, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• Helmer, John G., claim of for an invalid pension ... 93, 165
• Hemenway, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Hemenway, Peter, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Hemmingway, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 390
• Hemmingway, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 394
• Hempstead, Samuel, Lieut., claim of for an invalid pension ... 141
• Henderson, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 393
• Henderson, Bennet, claim of for services as a commissary of issues at Albemarle barracks, inadmissible ... 181
• Henderson, Francis, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of in right of his wife for certain balances due to the late Col. J. Laurens, for his military and diplomatic services ... 607
• Henderson, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Henderson, Joseph, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on his claim for further compensation for his services as naval paymaster ... 53
• Henderson, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 392, 399
• Henderson, William, report against the claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills ... 179, 215
• Henderson, William, a captain in the United States services, report of committee against allowing the claim of for property destroyed by the British in 1814 ... 795

  Summary of facts in relation to said claim ... 799

• Hendley, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 401
• Henley, David, report of the Secretary of War in favor of releasing him from a balance found against him on settling his accounts as Paymaster General and General Agent for the territory southwest of the Ohio ... 418
• Henley, John D., report of committee against granting indemnity to for loss sustained by the blowing up of a vessel of war ... 459
• Henley, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 395
• Henry, Bevijah, claim of allowed ... 398
• Henry, Robert, claim of for certain cordwood, inadmissible ... 180
• Hepner, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Herns, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 388
• Herrington, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hewett, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Hewitt, Dathick, claim of allowed ... 390
• Heyer, Walter W. and others, report of committee against the claim of for extra pay as clerk in the loan office in the State of New York ... 124
• Hibbon, Mary, widow of F. Cranbury, report of the Secretary of War against the claim of for bounty land due her deceased husband ... 194
• Hickey, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103, 391
• Hickman, Edward, claim of allowed ... 402
• Hickman, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Hickman, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hicks, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 398
• Hicks, James, report of committee against the claim of for a balance on his account for rations and hospital stores ... 592
• Hide, Noah, claim of allowed ... 391
• Higginbotham, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Higgins, Charles, an army contractor, report of committee against granting relief to for loss by the dishonesty of his agent ... 662
• Higgins, Isaac, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 112, 167
• Higgins, James, claim of allowed ... 396
• Hightower, Thomas, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for a slave disabled while assisting an ordnance wagon ... 680
• Hill, Baylor, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hill, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 397
• Hill, Henry. (See Nathaniel Greene.)
• Hill, Hewitt, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hill, Jeremiah, report of committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity against certain judicial expenses ... 450
• Hill, Lemi, claim of for a pension ... 119
• Hill, Philip, claim of allowed ... 387
• Hill, Rees, report of committee against allowing the claim of for advances to a regiment of militia in the service of the United States ... 538

  Report of a committee in favor of said claim ... 671

• Hill, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Hill, William, claim of allowed ... 389, 400
• Hill, William C., estate of, claim of the for a quartermaster's certificate, inadmissible ... 177
• Hill, William, and others, report of committee against allowing the claim of for interest on certain debenture bonds ... 582
• Hill, Zimri, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Hilliard, Thruston, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 64, 112, 153
• Hills, Frederick, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Hills, Zimri, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 61, 119
• Hilton, William, claim of allowed ... 388, 396
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• Hinch, Morris, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hindman, John, report of committee in favor of allowing him further compensation for his services as a clerk while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Hinds, Abijah, claim of for a pension ... 140
• Hinds, George, claim of allowed ... 400
• Hipple, Lawrence, claim of to an invalid pension ... 100, 165
• Hirsh, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 396
• Hite, George, report of committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity for loss by Indian depredations in 1776 ... 448
• Hix, Philip, claim of allowed ... 399
• Hobby, John, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, deemed inadmissible ... 176
• Hobby, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 65, 115, 154
• Hodge & Barry, report of committee against allowing the claim of for property destroyed by an order of Government ... 537
• Hodge, John, Captain, certificate of his disability and to what pension entitled ... 67, 68
• Hodge, John, Lieut., claim of allowed ... 389
• Hodgkinson, P. K., report of committee against allowing an increase of pension to the widow of ... 447
• Hodgson, Rebecca, reports of committee against allowing her claim for indemnity for the loss of a house by fire while occupied as the War Office ... 323, 425, 440
• Hogaboom, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Hogan, James, claim of allowed ... 390
• Hogenkamp, Gysbert, claim of for depreciation of certain new emission bills, disallowed ... 180
• Hoggard, Thurmer, claim of allowed ... 403
• Hohn, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Holden, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 392
• Holden, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 390
• Holdridge, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Holeman, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 398
• Holiday, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Holker, John, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office certificates lost, not allowed ... 258

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claim of for the renewal of said certificates ... 470

• Holland, Julius, claim of allowed ... 405
• Holland, Thomas, Captain, seven years' half-pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Holliday, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Hollingsworth, Henry, report of committee against the claim of for a horse lost in the military service ... 609
• Hollingsworth, Jacob, claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, disallowed ... 181
• Holloway, John, claim of for a pension ... 103
• Holly, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 406
• Holly, Francis, claim of allowed ... 402
• Holmes, David, claim of allowed ... 388, 395, 400
• Holmes, David, surgeon, half-pay not allowed by the State of Connecticut to the representatives of ... 72
• Holmes, Lemuel, claim of allowed ... 397
• Holmes, Levi, claim of allowed ... 398
• Holt, James, claim of allowed ... 395
• Holt, Jesse, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Holt, Nathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Holt, William, claim in of allowed ... 391
• Holten, Jonathan, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 161
• Holton, Abel, claim of allowed ... 395
• Hooker, Samuel F., report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to him for a vessel and cargo captured by the enemy ... 639
• Hooks, Josiah, a collector of customs, report of committee in favor of indemnifying him against certain judicial proceedings ... 802
• Hoole, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 394
• Hopes, John, claim of allowed ... 387
• Hopkins, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 391, 398
• Hopkins, David, claim of allowed ... 403
• Hopkins, John B., claim of allowed ... 398
• Hopkins, Peter, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Hopkins, Weight, claim of allowed ... 391
• Hopseker, Powles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96
• Horman, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 393
• Horn, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 85
• Horner, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 394
• Horses lost in the military service, report of a committee against granting indemnity for ... 443

  Memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky praying payment of the claims of her citizens for ... 455

  Report of a committee against the claims of the Tennessee volunteers for indemnity for horses lost in the Seminole war ... 732, 806

• Horsford, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89, 165
• Hosey, Anthony, claim of allowed ... 399
• Hosmen, Graves, claim of allowed ... 389
• Hosmer, Ashbel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89
• Hospital department, officers who died in the service entitled to seven years' half-pay ... 21
• Hospital service, report of a committee against allowing a claim for indemnity for a slave lost in the ... 468
• Houghton, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• House, Christian, claim of allowed ... 401
• House, Elizabeth, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity for Indian depredations in 1777 ... 813
• House, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 401
• Household, William, claim of allowed ... 388
• Housely, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 398
• Housilider, Michael, claim of allowed ... 402
• Howard, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Howard, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Howard, Stephen, report of a committee in favor of allowing his claim for bounty land ... 847
• Howard, Thomas, claim of for depreciation on certain new emission bills, deemed inadmissible ... 180
• Howd, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid psnsion ... 88
• Howe, Bazaleel, report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting him an extension of pay ... 195
• Howe, Bezel, statement of the loss sustained by him in consequence of the riot in 1794 ... 238
• Howe, Solomon, a surgeon's mate, half-pay not allowed by the State of Connecticut to the representatives of ... 72
• Howell, Jacobs, report of a committee in favor of granting further compensation to the family of for his services as a clerk while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79

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• Hoxie, John, report of a committee against allowing him to commute his pension ... 249
• Hoyt, Elijah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 142
• Hoyt, Gould, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of for indemnity for the illegal seizure and detention of the ship American Eagle, at New York ... 450
• Hubbard, Eber, report of a committee against the claim of for the loss of a boat taken by the enemy ... 756
• Hubbard, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 389
• Hubbard, Silas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Hubbell, David, claim for an invalid pension ... 167
• Hubble, Abijah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Huff, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Huger, Benjamin, late major, claim of his widow for seven years' half-pay admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30,389
• Hughes, Arthur, petition lost or misplaced ... 77
• Hughes, Hugh, a deputy quartermaster general in the army, report of a committee against granting the petition of for further compensation for his military services ... 255

  Report of a committee against allowing the claim of the heirs of for arrears of pay, depreciation of pay, and bounty land, in the settlement of his accounts ... 706

• Hughes, John, claim of barred by act of limitation ... 77
• Hull, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 393
• Hull, Nath., claim of allowed ... 395
• Hull, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Humes, James, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for commissions on money accrued but not accounted for ... 489
• Humphries, John, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Humphrey, Alexander, and Sylvester, report of a committee recommending a disagreement to the bill from the Senate for the relief of, from loss on a contract for repairing and building a wharf ... 882
• Hungerford, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 387
• Hunt, Gilbert, claim of for the depreciation of certain bills of credit, deemed inadmissible ... 180
• Hunt, Humphrey, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Hunt, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 396
• Hunt, Thomas, report of the Secretary of War on his claim for arrears of pay ... 68
• Hunt, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Hunter, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 151, 402
• Huntoon, Charles, jun., claim of for an invalid pension ... 161
• Hurd, Zadock, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Hurlbut, George, report of a committee against the claim of his executors for commutation ... 196
• Huson, Cornelius, report of a committee in favor of allowing him a pension ... 844
• Hutchins, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 388
• Hutchins, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Hutson, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 396
• I.
• Importation of negroes, report of a committee against a claim for expenses of a prosecution for a supposed violation of the law against the ... 307
• Impressment of a vessel by the Bey of Tunis, report of a committee against granting indemnity to D. Cotton for loss by the ... 322

  Report of a committee in favor of adjusting said claim ... 337

  Of property into public service, rules of evidence adopted in settling claims for the (see Indemnity) ... 691--'93

• Increase of pension. (See Pension.)
• Indemnity, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in favor of reimbursing the losses sustained by the Baron de Steuben, on entering the service of the United States ... 11

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against making good loss on public securities, and depreciation of the currency ... 16

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against making good loss by the depreciation of the currency ... 17

  For a breach of contract, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on a claim for ... 26, 263

  Report of a committee recommending said claim to a judicial decision ... 50

  Against the effects of certain engagements entered into by the late Major General Greene for the United States, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on a claim for ... 33

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of allowing said claim ... 189

  Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of allowing said claim ... 191

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of granting for claims, if within the rules of settlement at the Treasury, and not barred by acts of limitation ... 55

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury recommending the forbearance of legislative interposition on claims for property used or destroyed by the army of the United States ... 55

  For money lost, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of Captain Jonathan Haskell for ... 69

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 219

  For medical expenses, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of Peter Covenhoven, for expenses incurred by his wounds ... 71

  For property destroyed at Valley Forge by the enemy, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of William Dewees for ... 74

  Report of a committee against the claim of the heirs of Colonel William Dewees for ... 754

  Against judgments obtained at law, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against granting ... 76

  For injury done to religious or literary institutions by the troops of the United States, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending indemnity in all cases ... 198

  For property destroyed by the troops of the United States, report of a committee against the claim of Thomas Frothingham for ... 199

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of John Frank for indemnity for Indian captivity ... 208

  Against responsibility on public account, report in favor of allowing the claim of Lucy Clark for ... 210

  Report of a committee showing the amount of the, made to the estate of the late Major General Greene, for responsibilities incurred on public account as surety to John Banks & Co. ... 210

  For loss by the depreciation of certain bills of credit called "new emission bills," report of a committee against claim of Joseph Ball and others for ... 215

  For loss sustained by the militia in 1794, report of a committee against allowing the claim of sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania for ... 218

  For losses sustained in consequence of riotous resistance to the laws by the insurgents in 1794, report of a committee against the claim of a collector of the revenue for ... 219

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against said claim ... 235

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• Indemnity for loss on certain bullion deposited in the United States mint, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of John Vaughan for ... 219

  For loss incurred in attending a committee of the House of Representatives as a witness, report of a committee against allowing the claim of John Rogers for ... 231

  For loss by Indian depredations, report of a committee against allowing the claim of Daniel Smith for ... 222

  Report of a committee against allowing the claim of S. G. Simmons for loss in the value of a horse ... 248

  For loss of property by the burning of the War Department in 1800, report of a committee against the claim of William Markward for ... 249

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing indemnity to Samuel Dexter, late Secretary of War, for expense in defending a suit brought against him for the loss by fire of a house occupied as the War Office ... 250

  For loss on two prizes and cargoes, in consequence of the alleged misconduct of the revenue officers, report of a committee against the claim of Paul Coulon for ... 251, 255

  For loss of property through the carelessness of certain public agents, report of a committee against the claim of Robert Sanders for ... 259

  Report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of Fulwar Skipwith, for indemnity against loss by certain protested bills of exchange drawn by him on the United States to secure advances made by him while consul general in 1795 ... 268

  For a breach of contract, report of a committee in favor of the claim of Comfort Sands for ... 272

  For losses and expenses while a commercial agent at St. Domingo, report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of Tobias Lear for ... 273

  For loss of a vessel and cargo, report of the Secretary of State against the claim of W. Wilson and others for ... 284

  For expenses in defending a suit, report of committee against the claim of a postmaster for ... 285

  For the seizure of a vessel, report of committee against allowing the claim of D. Valenzin for ... 288

  Report of committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 292

  Report of committee against allowing the claim of a collector of revenue for the loss by fire of his dwelling-house and valuable papers ... 297

  For loss of certain beef cattle, report of committee against the claim of an army contractor for ... 298

  Against the costs in prosecuting a suit for a supposed breach of the laws against importing negroes, report of committee against a claim for ... 307

  For loss by Indian depredations, report of committee against the claim of Alexander Scott and others for ... 309

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 379

  For loss in a contract, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 313

  For loss by the impressment of a vessel by the Bey of Tunis, report of committee against allowing the claim of D. Cotton for ... 322

  Report of a committee in favor of adjusting said claim ... 337

  For the loss of a house by fire while occupied as the War Office, report of committee against allowing the claim of Rebecca Hodgson for ... 322, 425, 440

  For the illegal capture and subsequent loss of a vessel and cargo by a naval officer, report of the Secretary of State in favor of allowing the claim of J. Shattuck for ... 332

  Report of a committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 358, 418

  Reports of committee against the claim of P. Landais for indemnity for certain prizes taken in 1779, and afterwards restored to the enemy by the King of Denmark ... 346, 373

  For loss by the insolvency of the marshal of the State of Maryland, report of committee against allowing the claim for ... 357

  For loss by the military of the United States in 1801, report of committee in favor of granting to sundry inhabitants of Knox couty, in Kentucky ... 360, 365

  For demurrage and expenses of a vessel captured while in the public service, for want of necessary documents, report of the Secretary of the Navy on the claim of R. Elwell for ... 363

  For a house burnt while in the public service, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 370

  For a horse killed in the military service, report of committee against the claim of D. Bradley for ... 371

  For advances made during the Revolution, report of committee against allowing the claim of General St. Clair for ... 375

  For the capture of a vessel within the limits of the United States by a French cruiser, report of committee against granting to J. Mullowny ... 379

  For depredations committed by certain mounted riflemen, report of committee in favor of allowing the claims of sundry inhabitants of Knox county, in Indiana for ... 419

  Report of committee of Senate against allowing said claim ... 606

  For the illegal condemnation and sale of a vessel, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. Dillon for ... 421

  For capture and destruction of wagons and teams by the enemy at Detroit, report of committee House Representatives, disagreeing to the bill from the Senate granting ... 422

  For horses and mules lost in service, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Kenzie and Forsythe for ... 424

  For loss by the interruption of the exclusive right to trade with the Osage Indians, report of committee against allowing the claim of G. Sarpy for ... 432, 602

  For losses sustained by the purchase of an interest in a vessel illegally sold for the benefit of the United States, report of a committee against allowing the claim of Thomas Cutts for ... 432, 436

  For the loss of a quantity of coffee at Algiers, report of the Secretary of State against allowing the claim of J. S. Smith for ... 435

  For the loss of a ship while engaged in public service, reports of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Bowie and Kurtz and others for ... 435, 476, 699

  Reports of committee against allowing said claim ... 500, 615

  For a vessel lost while in the public employ, reports of committee against allowing the claim of Joseph Forrest for ... 438, 527, 543

  Report of committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 642, 875

  For a horse lost while the owner was under a military arrest, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 439

  For loss by the destruction, by military order, of rope-walks in Baltimore, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. Chalmers for ... 441

  For property destroyed by the enemy, report of committee against allowing the claim of Renner and Heath for ... 442, 502

  Report of committee in favor of allowing said claim ... 594

  For horses lost in the expedition against Canada and in the Creek campaign, report of committee against allowing claims for ... 443

  For loss by the destruction, by military order, of rope-walks in 1814, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. Shinnick and others for ... 444

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• Indemnity for loss by the purchase of land illegally sold for taxes, report of committee against allowing the claim of J. Linsey for ... 445

  For depredation by the Indians on his property, report of committee against allowing the claim of J. Motlow for ... 445

  For a house destroyed by military order, report of committee allowing the claim of W. H. Washingtong for ... 446

  For British cruelty, report of committee against allowing the claim of Joshua Penny for ... 447

  For Indian depredations, memorial of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory for, in behalf of the citizens of said Territory ... 448

  Report of committee against allowing said claim ... 460

  For loss by Indian depredations, report of committee against the claim of George Hite for ... 448

  For money lost, report of committee against allowing the claim of a paymaster of militia for ... 449

  For judicial expenses, report of committee against allowing the claim of a collector of revenue for ... 450

  For loss by the illegal seizure and detention of the ship American Eagle, at New York report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of Gould Hoyt for ... 450

  For the loss of a slave and military clothes, report of committee against allowing the claim of, A, Montgomery for ... 453

  For money lost, report of committee against allowing the claim of a purser in the navy for ... 453

  For a vessel lost in the flotilla service, report of committee against allowing the claim of O'Neal and Taylor for ... 454

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of Daniel Gold and others, militia men, for indemnity for money lost by their agent ... 457

  For money lost, report of committee against allowing the claim of an army paymaster for ... 458

  For losses sustained by the blowing up of a vessel of war, report of committee against the claim of J. D. Henley for ... 459

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on a claim for money lost by a collector ... 459

  For a house and furniture burnt by soldiers of the army, report of committee against the claim of R. M. Pomeroy for ... 461

  For losses occasioned by the enemy during the late war, report of committee against the claim of N. Boilevin and others for ... 461

  For property destroyed by the enemy, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of William Flood for ... 462

  For loss by the confiscation of a prize at Santa Martha, report of committee against allowing the claim of Ward and Riker for ... 472

  For a horse shot by a sentinel, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Jos. Wilson for ... 473

  For loss on a contract, report of committee against allowing the claim of Th. Kemp for ... 475

  For loss of a wharf and storehouse by the burning of the United States ship Adams, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. and J. Crosby for ... 478, 498

  For loss by the relinquishment of a right to a ship to preserve from sequestration American property at Tunis, at the instance of the American agent, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Wm. Haslitt for ... 484

  Report of the Secretary of State in favor of allowing said claim ... 484

  Report of committee against allowing the claim of a recruiting officer for money lost in service ... 488

  For property destroyed by the enemy, report of committee against allowing the claim of a collector of internal duties for ... 489

  For the occupation and use of property by a military force, report of committee against allowing the claim of L. Bezedone for ... 499

  For money lost by a commander of a company of volunteers, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 499

  For property plundered by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against allowing the claim of A. McCormick for ... 503, 668

  For loss by capture of a private armed vessel in a neutral port, report of committee against allowing the claim of Jenkins & Havens for ... 503

  For property destroyed by the enemy at Buffalo and the Niagara frontier, report of committee against allowing the claim of sundry citizens for ... 507

  For damage done to property at Plattsburg by firing on the enemy, report of committee allowing the claim of T. Nicholls for ... 507

  For supplies furnished to the United States during the Revolution, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of F. Cazeau's representatives for ... 515

  For injury done to property during the defence of New Orleans, report of committee in favor of allowing sundry claims for ... 521, 522, 525

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1777, report of committee allowing the claim of Sarah Dewees for ... 522

  For property impressed and afterwards taken by the enemy, report of committee allowing the claim of P. Kindall for ... 524

  Allowed to a teamster for damages awarded against him ... 523

  For certain legal expenses, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Asa Wells, a lieutenant in the army, for ... 524

  For money lost, report of committee against allowing the claim of an army paymaster for ... 525

  For a house burnt by the enemy, report of committee against allowing the claim of W. B. Stokes for ... 526

  Report of committee against allowing to a naval officer indemnity for property lost by the capture of his vessel ... 526

  For loss of money deposited with the American consul at Tunis, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of W. and H. Lewis for ... 527

  For loss sustained by the surrender of the Michigan Territory to the enemy, report of the Secretary of State on the claim of sundry inhabitants of said Territory for ... 529

  For injury to property by the troops of the United States, report of committee against allowing the claim of W. Clements for ... 530

  For a number of slaves removed by the British in 1815, report of committee against allowing sundry claims for ... 531

  For the destruction of a house while occupied by the troops of the United States, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. Anderson for ... 535

  For money lost, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of H. White, an army officer, for ... 536

  For property destroyed in 1814, report of committee against allowing the claim of A. J. Villard for ... 537

  For property destroyed in 1814, report of committee against the claim of Barry & Hodge for ... 537

  For money lost, report of committee allowing the claim of a deputy collector of revenue for ... 541

  For judicial proceedings against an officer of the army, report of committee in favor of allowing ... 545

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• Indemnity for a house burnt while occupied by the troops of the United States, report of committee allowing the claim of Miller & Baker for ... 547

  For a slave lost in the military service, report of committee against the claim of B. Shaw, for ... 548, 679

  For money lost in the recruiting service, report of committee against the claim of J. Whistler for ... 549

  For the deficiency in quantity of certain land sold for the benefit of the United States, report of committee House of Representatives against the claim of J. Bogert for ... 549

  Report of a committee Senate in favor of allowing said claim ... 597

  For losses sustained in consequence of the war with the Creek Indians, report of committee against the claim of Z. McGirt for ... 550

  Against certain judicial proceedings, report of committee in favor of the claim of Major General Brown for ... 551

  For a house burnt by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against the claim of J. Ireland for ... 552

  For houses and other property destroyed by the British near New Orleans, report of committee allowing the claim of B. and P. Jordan for ... 553

  For property destroyed by the British in 1813, report of committee against the claim of J. Eady for ... 554

  For a house burnt by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against the claim of M. Frazier for ... 555

  For supplies furnished the troops, report of committee against the claim of M. Dubbs for ... 556

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against the claims of P. Bryant for ... 558

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against allowing the claim of T. E. and W. Stansbury for ... 583

  For loss on a contract, report of committee against the claim of Flannigain & Parsons for ... 585

  For loss of clothes by a company of volunteers in 1814, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 586

  Against certain judicial proceedings, report of committee against the claim of R. Purdy, an army officer for ... 586

  For a vessel captured by the enemy whilst carrying the mail, report of committee against the claim of G. Griffin for ... 587

  For money lost, report of committee against allowing the claim of a marine officer for ... 589

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of M. Ball for ... 589

  Against certain judgments at law, report of committee in favor of the claim of a judge advocate for ... 591

  For property destroyed near New Orleans in 1815, report of committee in favor of the claim of T. Maynew for ... 592

  Report of committee recommending the amount of indemnity granted to T. Mayhew to be diminished ... 645

  For Indian depredations in 1782, report of committee against the claim of Samuel Douthet for ... 593

  For loss by a change in a contract, report of committee in favor of the claim of Kinsley & French for ... 591

  For a breach of contract, report of committee in favor of allowing to the assignees of Comfort Sands ... 595

  Report of committee recommending the reduction of the amount of heretofore allowed to the representatives of Comfort Sands ... 669

  For the loss of a vessel captured by the enemy, report of committee against the claim of S. H. Garrow for ... 596

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of committee against the claim of R. Frisby for ... 597, 639

  Against a judgment for the illegal seizure and detention of a ship, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Gelston & Schenck for ... 601

  For loss by depreciation of certain Treasury notes, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of E. Hart for ... 602

  Report of committee against allowing said claim ... 793

  Against judicial proceedings, report of committee in favor of the claim of G. W. Wells, an army officer, for ... 604

  Against loss by the destruction of property in consequence of aiding the American cause, report of committee in favor of the claim of certain Canadian refugees for ... 608

  For the destruction of property on Long Island by the American army, report of committee against the claim of M. Bower and others for ... 608

  For loss by the capture of a vessel and cargo by the enemy, report of committee in favor of granting to S. F. Hooker ... 609

  For a horse lost in the military service, report of committee against the claim of H. Hollingsworth for ... 609

  For property destroyed by the army in 1812, report of committee against the claim of J. Parish for ... 610

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1779, report of committee against the claim of J. Van Tassell for ... 610

  For injury done to a house rented to the troops of the United States, report of a committee against the claim of C. McNiff for ... 611

  For property destroyed by the enemy on the Niagara frontier, report of a committee against the claim of R. M. Pomeroy for ... 613

  For the loss of loan office certificates, report of a committee in favor of the claim of S. Gibbs for ... 637

  For expenses and loss of time during Indian captivity, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of H. Wakefield, a custom-house officer, for ... 638

  For articles of clothing lost by an officer of the army, report of a committee against granting ... 640

  For money lost by mail, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of a collector of the revenue for ... 641

  Against certain judicial proceedings, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of General Swartwout, a quartermaster general in the army, for ... 649

  For advances made for the equipment of a volunteer company, report of a committee against allowing the claim of J. Polhemus for ... 651

  For property destroyed by the British in 1778, report of a committee against the claim of J. Ward for ... 654

  For advances made and services rendered in the army, report of a committee against allowing the claim of a wagonmaster for ... 654

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of a purser in the navy for ... 655

  Against loss by the dishonesty of his agent, report of a committee against allowing the claim of an army contractor for ... 662

  For damage done to property by the United States troops, report of a committee against the claim of M. L. Woolsey for ... 663

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• Indemnity for the loss of stores captured by the British, report of a committee against the claim of a purser in the navy for ... 665

  For property lost by the burning of a vessel belonging to the United States, report of a committee against ihe claim of Caze and Richaud for ... 665

  For boats and supplies furnished to the expedition under Colonel Arnold, report of a committee against the claim of R. Colburn for ... 667

  For a slave impressed into the public service, report of a committee against allowing the claim of J. Purkill for ... 668, 686

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report of a committee against allowing the claim of R. Sewall for ... 670

  For advances made to a regiment of militia, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of R. Hill for ... 671

  For property destroyed by the British in 1813, report of a committee in favor of the claim of E. Hart for ... 672

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of V. Grant for ... 674

  For money lost, report of a committee recommending a postponement of the claim of a purser in the navy for ... 674

  For loss of prize money by the surrender of two British prizes, captured and carried into Norway by the Danish Government, report of a committee against the claim of a marine officer for ... 675

  For loss by the embezzlement of certain prize money by a clerk in the district court of New York, report of a committee against allowing a claim for ... 679

  For a slave disabled by aiding a wagon loaded with ordnance, report of a committee against the claim of Th. Hightower for ... 680

  Against judicial expenses, report of a committee against the claim of a paymaster of militia for ... 682

  For loss of a ship burnt by the enemy, report of committee rejecting the claim of Wm. Rice for ... 684

  For loss on a contract for the delivery of arms, report of a committee against allowing the claim of S. Jenks & Sons for ... 684

  For horses lost in the Seminole war, report of a committee against the claim of R. C. Lane for ... 694

  For property sequestered in England after the declaration of war, report of a committee against the claim of J. & H. Schieffelin for ... 696

  Against loss on a commutation certificate, report of a committee against the claim of H. Bedinger for ... 701

  For property destroyed by the British during the Revolution, report of a committee against allowing the claim of M. and S. Youngs for ... 703

  Report of a committee against allowing the claim of a British deserter for, for property lost ... 704

  Against loss by a breach of contract, report of a committee against allowing the claim of the assignees of Comfort Sands for ... 708

  For loss of half-pay from the British Government in consequence of joining the American army, report of a committee against the claim of the executor of Moses Hazen for ... 729

  For property destroyed by the British, in 1814 and 1815 report of a committee against the bill from the Senate granting indemnity to F. B. Longville ... 730

  Against certain judicial proceedings, report of a committee against allowing the claim of a quartermaster general for ... 731

  For the loss of a vessel employed to transport guns, &c. for the navy, captured by the enemy, report of a committee against the claim of A. Bronson for ... 732, 761

  For horses lost in the Seminole war, report of a committee against allowing the claim of the Tennessee volunteers for ... 732

  For the loss of a private armed vessel, report of a committee against the claim of S. C. Reid and others for ... 736

  For expenses of seizing a ship for a supposed violation of the embargo laws at Cadiz, report of a committee in favor of allowing to an American consul ... 737

  Against a judgment and costs of suit for a violation of the sedition law, report of a committee in favor of the claim of M. Lyon for ... 737

  For loss of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore, report a committee in favor of allowing ... 741

  For property destroyed by the enemy in 1814--'15, report of a committee in favor of the claim of P. Deslonde for ... 752

  For cattle illegally seized and sold, report of a committee against allowing the claim of John McCartney for ... 753

  For loss of a boat captured by the enemy while transporting provisions for the Government, report of a committee against the claim of E. Hubbard for ... 756

  For property destroyed by the enemy, report of a committee against allowing the claim of Joseph Janney for ... 756

  For the loss of clothing, &c., report of a committee against allowing the claim of an officer in the army for ... 757

  For property destroyed by the troops in 1814--'15, report of a committee allowing in part the claim of P. Delaronde for ... 759

  For supplies furnished the army, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of P. Babcock for ... 760

  For damage done to property by the troops of the United States, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of James May for ... 769

  For a slave lost in the public service, report of a committee against the claim of H. Catlett for ... 776

  For money lost, report of a committee against the claim of a purser in the navy for ... 778

  For a horse lost in public service, report of a committee against the claim of F. Coates for ... 779

  For merchandise captured by the troops of the United States, report of a committee against the claim of Charles Douglass for ... 793

  For property destroyed by the British at Monday's point, report of a committee against allowing the claim of William Henderson for ... 795

  For property destroyed by the enemy, report of a committee against the claim of G. Johnston for ... 801

  Against judicial proceedings, report of a committee in favor of granting the claim of a collector of customs for ... 802

  For horses and arms lost in the Seminole war, report of a committee against the memorial of the General Assembly of Tennessee for ... 806

  For Indian depredations and cruelties, report of a committee against the claim of Elizabeth House for ... 813

  For the loss of a ship and cargo in consequence of the delay of the collector to grant a clearance, report of a committee against the claim of Alexander Mactier for ... 814

  For property destroyed by the enemy on the Niagara frontier, report of a committee against the claim of H. B. Potter for ... 814

  For money advanced to an army officer, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against allowing the claim of J. Morrison for ... 821

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• Indemnity for damages on a protested bill of exchange, report of a committee against the claim of James Weir for ... 823

  For a wagon and horses impressed into the public service, report of a committee against the claim of D. Stone for ... 833

  For property destroyed in the defence of New Orleans, report of a committee against the claim of J. de Villiers for ... 835

  Report of a committee against the claim of Antoine Bienvenue for ... 836

  For a slave lost in public service, report of a committee against the claim of M. McKewan for ... 838

  For loss sustained by a breach of contract, report of a committee against the claim of Samuel Monett for ... 843

  For loss of certain property abandoned in Algiers by order of the Algerine Government in 1812, report of a committee against the claim of J. S. Smith for ... 853

  For property destroyed by the British during the Revolution, report of a committee against the claim of the heirs of Joseph Young for ... 858

  For a vessel and cargo captured by an American cruiser, report of a committee against allowing the claim of A. B. Munoz for ... 871

  Against certain judicial proceedings, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of Colonel R. Purdy, an army officer, for ... 874

  For money lost, report of a committee against allowing the claim of an army paymaster for ... 879

  For loss on a contract, report of a committee against the claim of A. and S. Humphrey for ... 882

  For losses incurred by the frauds and failures of subagents, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of Daniel D. Tompkins for ... 884

  For losses sustained by the failure of Government to supply funds to secure certain loans made on public account, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of Daniel D. Tompkins for ... 884

  Against judicial proceedings; report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of an officer in the navy for ... 890

  Against the loss of certain money by the dishonesty of an agent, report of a committee against allowing the claim of an agent for the exchange of prisoners for ... 891

  For vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of J. S. Stiles for ... 892

• Indents of interest barred by statute of limitation, recommended by committee to be paid ... 333, 411

  On the public debt, amount of barred by statute of limitation ... 209, 384, 414

• Indian captivity, report of the Secretary of War in favor of returning ransom money paid by S. B. Turner for his redemption from ... 54

  Report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of John Frank, a soldier, for his pay and emoluments while in captivity to the Indians ... 208

  Report of committee in favor of reimbursing money paid by F. Duchouquet for the ransom of American citizens from ... 256

  Report of committee against indemnifying J. Gilham for money paid to redeem his family from ... 313

  Report of committee against the claim of John McCrea, a custom-house officer, for indemnity for expenses and loss of time while in captivity to the Indians ... 559

  Report of committee in favor of allowing to Harvey Wakefield, a custom-house officer, compensation for his time and expenses while captive to the Indians ... 638

• Indian chiefs, report of committee in favor of the claim of certain to invalid pensions ... 891
• Indian depredations. See Indemnity.
• Indian treaty, report of committee in favor of the claims of A. St. Clair for negotiating an ... 73, 80
• Information of a breach of the revenue laws, report of committee against the claim of J. Gideon for giving ... 285
• Ingraham, Henry, and others, report of committee against discharging them from the payment of interest on a judgment against them ... 696
• Ingram, Sarah, administratrix of L. Thorowgood, claim of for the payment of certain deposites in a continental loan office, barred by statute of limitation ... 638
• Inloe, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Insolvency of a marshal of Maryland, report of a committee against a claim for indemnity against loss by the ... 537
• Inspectors of the revenue, allowed a per diem salary for actual service ... 308
• Institutions, religious or literary, should not be barred by acts of limitation from indemnity for injury done to their property by the troops of the United States ... 198
• Interest, report of the Secretary of War against allowing interest on certain warrants issued to the South Carolina line, under the resolve of Congress of the 10th October, 1786 ... 8

  Allowed on the medical and other expenses of a wounded officer ... 23

  Claim for on the sum paid for the services of Colonel John Laurens as special minister to France, rejected ... 24

  Report of the Treasury in favor of allowing interest to Udney Hay on a promissory note given for a sum advanced for the use of certain American citizens, prisoners of war at Quebec ... 56

  Allowed on the debts due to foreign officers who served in the late war ... 207

  Report of committee against allowing the claim of John Thompson for, on sundry advances made by him for the public service ... 423

  Report of the Secretary of War, giving information of the usage of the War Department in relation to claims for ... 475

  On certain debenture bonds, report of committee against allowing a claim for ... 582

  On advances made to a deputy quartermaster general in the army, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of E. Hart for ... 602

  Report of a committee against allowing said claim ... 793

  On a Treasury warrant issued in payment of advances made on public account, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of James Price for ... 673

  Report of committee against releasing the sureties of a navy agent from the payment of interest on a judgment obtained against them ... 696

  On advances made for public use, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of D. D. Tompkins for ... 884

  On advances and disbursements made on public account, report of a committee against the claim of a deputy commissary of purchases for ... 886

• Interest, indents of. See Indents of interest.
• Interpreter, report of committee in favor of granting relief to the widow of an interpreter killed in service ... 312
• Intruders on Indian lands, property of ordered to be destroyed ... 753
• Invalid officers, report of the Secretary or War in favor of a more liberal construction of the resolve of Congress of June 7, 1785, in granting pensions to ... 6
• Invalid pensions, report of the Secretary of War, stating the entire number of claims to, prior to 23d March, 1792 ... 56

  Statement of claims to, received at the War Department since the 29th May, 1794 ... 134

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the acts of Congress regulating claims to by commissioned officers ... 75

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• Invalid pensions, claims to not barred by having accepted commutation, provided such commutation shall be first returned ... 75, 84, 217

  Report of committee in relation to the various acts of Congress on the subject of claims of commissioned officers to, suggesting a course to be pursued ... 78

  Report of the Secretary of War of the number of applicants for, giving the name and circumstances of each, in obedience to an act entitled "An act to regulate the claims to invalid pensions" ... 83

  Report of committee in favor of permitting commissioned officers who shall have first returned their commutation to be placed on the invalid pension list ... 134

  Report of a committee against the expediency of making any alteration or amendment in the laws regulating claims to ... 216

  Report of committee examining the various acts and resolves of Congress passed in relation to ... 216

  Resolve of Congress of 7th June, 1785, designating the principles on which grants to shall be made ... 217

  Report of committee recommending provision to be made by law for the payment of such invalid pensioners as were placed on the list in the State of South Carolina, agreeably to resolves of Congress ... 276

  Amount of the claims to, barred by acts of limitation ... 384

  Report of committee recommending the payment of said claims ... 411

  Report of committee against suspending the acts of limitation barring claims to ... 414

  Report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of Captain Shelah Benson to an invalid pension ... 414

  Report of the Secretary of War of the number of officers and soldiers disabled in the late war who have been placed on the pension list ... 893

  Opinion of the Attorney General as to the time of completing testimony in support of claims for ... 893

• Invalid soldiers, report of the Secretary of War in favor of relaxing the resolve of Congress of the 11th June, 1788, in favor of certain ... 8
• Invention, report of committee in favor of rewarding A. J. Villard for a new method of mounting guns on fortifications ... 320
• Ireland, Joshua, report of committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity for a house burnt by the enemy in 1814 ... 552
• Irons, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Irvine, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 400
• Isaacs, James, claim of allowed ... 389
• J.
• Jackson, Ambrose, claim of allowed ... 402
• Jackson, Charles, claim of for certain lost certificates barred by act of limitation ... 216
• Jackson, Ephraim, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Jackson, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 397
• Jackson, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 392
• Jackson John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Jackson, Michael, Colonel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 87
• Jackson, Miles, claim of allowed ... 406
• Jackson, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 401
• Jackson, Thomas F., claim of allowed ... 393
• Jackson, William, claim of allowed ... 387
• Jacobs, John, claim of allowed ... 392, 393, 400
• Jacobs, John J., claim of allowed ... 393
• Jacobs, Whitman, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Jacways, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 142
• James, Bonsel, claim of allowed ... 387
• James, David, claim of allowed ... 400
• James, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Jamison, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Janes, Elijah, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Janney, Joseph, report of committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the enemy ... 756
• Jacquays, Nathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 118, 152
• Jarvis, Edward, claim of allowed ... 393
• Jay, James, report of committee in favor of allowing him indemnity against loss by the depreciation of certain moneys paid to him ... 421
• Jeanneret, Elias, claim of allowed ... 393
• Jefferes, George, claim of allowed ... 396
• Jeffers, Allen, claim of allowed ... 400
• Jeffers, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 402
• Jeffers, Drury, claim of allowed ... 397
• Jeffers, Osborn, claim of allowed ... 402
• Jemeson, Boice C., claim of allowed ... 398
• Jenkins, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 390
• Jenkins and Havens, report of committee against the claim of, for indemnity for the loss of a private armed vessel, captured in a neutral port ... 503
• Jenkins, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 398
• Jenkins, Reason, claim of allowed ... 403
• Jenks, Stephen & Sons, report of committee against allowing indemnity to, for loss on a contract for the delivery of arms ... 684
• Jennings, Ebenezer, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Jennings, James, claim of allowed ... 403
• Jerom, Robert, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 64, 115, 143
• Jinkes, Prince, claim of allowed ... 393
• John, Ezel, claim of allowed ... 403
• Johns, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Johnson, Eleazer, claim of for certain new emission bills, deemed inadmissible ... 179
• Johnson, Jacob, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Johnson, James, claim of allowed ... 390
• Johnson, John, claim of for cordwood, inadmissible ... 180
• Johnson, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 402
• Johnson, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Johnson, Philip, late Colonel, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Johnson, R. M., opinion of the Attorney General as to the time of the completion of his testimony, in support of his claim for an invalid pension ... 893
• Johnson, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
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• Johnson, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393, 394
• Johnson, Shepherd, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Johnson, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 396
• Johnson, Thomas, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103
• Johnston, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 402
• Johnston, Elijah, claim of allowed ... 402
• Johnston, George, claim of allowed ... 403
• Johnston, Gideon, claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy, report of a committee against the ... 801
• Johnston, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 403
• Johnston, James, claim of allowed ... 402, 403
• Johnston, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Johnston, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 403
• Jonas, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 104
• Jones, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 393
• Jones, Cadwallader, claim of allowed ... 388
• Jones, David, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for certain lost certificates ... 241
• Jones, David, a chaplain in the army, report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting him an extension of pay ... 195
• Jones, Elijah, claim of allowed ... 405
• Jones, Eliphalet, claim of allowed ... 390
• Jones, Griffith, report of a committee against allowing the claim of for certain certificates lost or destroyed ... 241
• Jones, John, claim of for certain cordwood, deemed inadmissible ... 180
• Jones, John, claim of allowed ... 392, 393, 400
• Jones, John, Lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Jones, Nelce, claim of for an invalid pension ... 163
• Jones, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 398
• Jones, Raymond, claim of allowed ... 401
• Jones, Solomon, claim of allowed ... 389
• Jones, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 390, 403, 406
• Jones, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 141, 404
• Jordan, A., a deputy quartermaster general, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Jordan, B. and P., report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of for property destroyed by the British near New Orleans in 1814-'15 ... 553
• Joseph, Wardwell, claim of allowed ... 387
• Joy, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
• Joy, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Joyner, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 392
• Jubritton, William, claim of allowed ... 402
• Judd, Ozias, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Judge advocate, report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to a, against certain judgments obtained against him ... 591
• Judgment, report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the sum necessary to discharge a judgment obtained against the collector and surveyor of the port of New York, for the seizure, by order of Government, of the ship American Eagle ... 475

  Report of a committee in favor of granting relief to P. Short, from an execution on a balance on a ... 524

  Report of a committee against discharging the sureties of a navy agent from the payment of interest on a ... 696

  Report of a committee in favor of granting relief to a collector of customs against a judgment for a balance due to the United States on his accounts ... 880

• Judicial decision on the claim of Comfort Sands and others, report of a committee recommending a ... 49
• Judicial expenses, report of a committee against allowing indemnity for, to a collector of revenue ... 450

  Report of a committee against allowing indemnity to a paymaster of militia for certain ... 682

• Judicial proceedings, report of a committee in favor of indemnifying an officer of the army against ... 545, 551, 604, 874

  Report of a committee against indemnifying an officer of the army against ... 586

  Report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to General R. Swartwout against ... 649

  Report of a committee against granting indemnity to a quartermaster-general against ... 731

  Extracts from the records of, in the case of a vessel sunk, and afterwards captured by the enemy ... 762, 763, 766

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of a collector of customs for indemnity against ... 802

  Report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to an officer in the navy against ... 890

• K.
• Kaine, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Kalb, Baron de, report of a committee against granting arrears of pay to the heirs of the ... 702, 758
• Karr, Henry, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• Keith, Ichabod, report of a committee against granting a pension to him ... 802
• Keith, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Kelley, Peter, claim of allowed ... 392
• Kellog, Giles, report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for clothes lost ... 586
• Kellogg, Stephen claim of for an invalid pension ... 157
• Kelly, Edward, claim of allowed ... 395
• Kelly, John, claim of allowed ... 391, 395
• Kelly, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 402
• Kelly, Thady, claim of allowed ... 399
• Kelly, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 395
• Kelly, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Kelsey, Giles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Kemp, Thomas, report of a committee against indemnifying him against loss on a contract to build certain sloops of war ... 475
• Kempton, Rufus, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Kendrick, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Kennedy, Robert, claim of allowed ... 404
• Kenney, Lyman, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Kent, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Kent, Mary, claim of allowed ... 401
• Kentucky, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claims of the State of, for expenses in certain expeditions against the Indians ... 79

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• Kentucky, report of a committee on the application of the Legislature of, for provision to be made for horses lost, for the representatives of soldiers killed in service, and for extraordinary services rendered by the mounted volunteers of that State, under Governor Shelby, in 1813 ... 426

  Memorial of the Legislature of, praying indemnity to certain citizens of that State for horses lost in the service of the United States ... 455

  Report of a committee in favor of the memorial of the Legislature of, in behalf of Christopher Miller for carrying a flag of truce to the hostile Indians ... 689

• Kenzie & Forsythe, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of for indemnity for horses and mules lost in the public service ... 424

  Report of a committee against allowing the claim of for whiskey and gunpowder lost at Chicago ... 424

• Kerner, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Kert, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Kesler, John, midshipman, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Kess, Henry, claim of allowed ... 390
• Kesselback, Oswald, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• Ketcherman, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Keth, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Kid, Henry, claim of allowed ... 396
• Kilbourn, Ashbel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Kilgore, Henry, claim of allowed ... 402
• Kilgore, James, claim of allowed ... 402
• Kimball, Abraham, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 161
• Kimball, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 392
• Kimball, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 136
• Kimball, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Kimborough, John, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Kindall, Peter, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for indemnity for the impressment and loss of his property in the public service ... 524
• King, Charles, claim of allowed ... 389
• King, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• King, Robert, claim of allowed ... 399
• King, Sampson S., report of a committee in favor of allowing him credit on his account for certain lost vouchers ... 598
• Kingman, Edward, Ensign, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Kinman, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 400
• Kinne, Lyman, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Kinney, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 394
• Kinsey & Smiley, sureties of a paymaster in the army, report of a committee against releasing them from the penalties of their bonds ... 830
• Kinsley & French, contractors for the delivery of arms, report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to for an increased cost of the work ... 594
• Kirk, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Kirkpatrick, James, claim of allowed ... 406
• Kirkland, Nathaniel, late lieutenant, half-pay not allowed, by the State of Connecticut, to the representatives of ... 72
• Kitchen, James, claim or allowed ... 399
• Kitchen, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Klyn, Barnt de, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office and final settlement certificates not allowed ... 258
• Knapp, Elijah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96
• Knapp, Jared, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89
• Knapp, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 400
• Knight, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Knight, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139, 394
• Knight, Simeon, Lieutenant, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of for extra rations ... 416
• Knixton, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Knowles, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 135
• Knox county, in Kentucky, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of sundry inhabitants of, for loss sustained by the military of the United States, in 1801 ... 360

  In the Indiana Territory, report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of sundry inhabitants of, for indemnity for depredations of certain mounted riflemen, under Major General Hopkins, in 1812 ... 419

  Report of a committee against allowing said claim ... 606

• Knox, Richard, claim of allowed ... 390
• Koch, Adam, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Koine, Dominic, claim of allowed ... 395
• Kosciusko, General, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claims of, for principal and interest due to him by the United States for military services ... 207
• Kuhl, Caspar, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102
• Kurtz and Bowie, report of committee in favor of the claim of, for indemnity for the loss of a ship employed in the public service ... 435, 476, 699

  Report of a committee against said claim ... 500, 615

  Objections to the claim of ... 618

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the claim of ... 625

• L.
• Lacey, Josiah, Captain, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Lacoste, Peter, report of committee against allowing the claim of for indemnity for a number of slaves removed by the British ... 531
• Lake, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Lamar, Thomas, Major, claim of for militia services ... 505, 506
• Lamb, Frederick, claim of allowed ... 395
• Landais, Peter, report of committee against the claim of for prizes taken by him, and afterwards restored to the enemy by the Danish Government ... 346, 373
• Land claims west of Pearl river, report of committee against allowing additional compensation to commissioners for settling the ... 355
• Land and naval service of the United States, report of committee against the expediency of repealing the law providing for certain persons engaged in the, during the revolutionary war ... 682
• Lane, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 397
• Lane, Edward, claim of allowed ... 397
• Lane, Job, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111, 162

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• Lane, Robert C., report of committee against allowing the claim of for for indemnity for horses lost in the Seminole War ... 694
• Langley, William, claim of allowed ... 388
• Lapiste, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Lapsley, Samuel, report of committee against the claim of the representatives of, for a lost certificate ... 241
• Lard, George, claim of allowed ... 401
• Larkin, Edward, claim of allowed ... 403
• Lassize, John de, report of committee against granting indemnity to, for losses by the enemy during the late war ... 461
• Latham, Amos, claim of allowed ... 396
• Lauer, Philip, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• Laurence, Aaron, report of committee against the claim of for further compensation for his services as a clerk ... 79
• Laurens, John, report of committee against the claim of the heirs of for interest on the sum allowed for his diplomatic services and expenses ... 24

  Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 607

• Law, Joseph, Lieutenant, claim of for his militia services ... 506
• Law, Richard, claim of allowed ... 395
• Lawrence, Henry, claim of allowed ... 387
• Lawrence, Hoel, report of committee against the claim of for materials, &c. for the erection of barracks ... 839
• Lawrence, William P., report of committee against the claim of for a slave lost in the public service ... 468
• Laws, George, claim of allowed ... 395
• Lawson, Anthony, surgeon's mate, claim of for forage rejected ... 429
• Lawson, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 395
• Lawson, Francis, Captain, claim of for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 505
• Lawson, Thomas, regimental paymaster, claim of for forage disallowed ... 429
• Lawson, Hugh, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• Lay, Lee, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 141
• Lear, Tobias, report of the Secretary of State in favor the claim of for indemnity for losses and expenses while commercial agent at St. Domingo ... 273
• Learned, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111, 140
• Learned, William, claim of allowed ... 387
• Leavitt, Nathaniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Lebo, Henry, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lee, Bartlett, claim of allowed ... 390
• Lee, John, claim of allowed ... 389, 391, 403
• Lee, Joshua, claim of allowed ... 403
• Lee, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 400
• Lee, Stephen and Polly, heirs of Lieutenant John Harris, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing them seven years' half-pay ... 70
• Lee, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Leech, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 65, 90, 115
• Leeds, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 142
• Legal expenses, indemnity for allowed to an officer of the army ... 524
• Leiper, Thomas, report of a committee against the claim of for certain lost certificates ... 241
• Leitch, Andrew, late Major, report of the Secretary of War allowing seven years' half-pay to his children ... 25
• Lenis, Jabez, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 66, 115
• Lessee of the salt works on the Wabash, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petition of the, for relief from loss by the inundation of the Ohio river ... 533
• Levi, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 388
• Lewis, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 118
• Lewis, Edwin, report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for certain timber taken for the public service ... 437
• Lewis, Henry, Ensign, claim of for an invalid pension, 93
• Lewis, James, claim of allowed ... 396
• Lewis, Nathaniel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 115
• Lewis, Robert, late Captain, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of his children to seven years' half-pay ... 21
• Lewis, Thomas, report of a committee against the claim of for extra compensation as a supernumerary aid-de-camp to General Wayne ... 214
• Lewis, William, claim of allowed ... 389
• Lewis, Winslow and Henry, report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of for certain moneys deposited with the American consul at Tunis and appropriated for public use ... 527

  Report of a committee approving said report ... 527

• Ley, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 390
• Lilley, Richard, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lilly, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his penson ... 63, 111
• Limitation relaxed in favor of the claims of the children of officers who died in service to seven years' half-pay ... 20, 22, 25

  Relaxed in favor of the claims of widows of officers to seven years' half-pay ... 25

  Claims of prisoners not barred by acts of ... 26

  Report of the Secretary of War recommending an adherence to the, on applications for invalid pensions ... 28

  Resolves or acts of, ought not to prejudice the claims of widows and orphans. (See reports of Secretary of War.) ... 30

  Claims of seamen and officers of the navy barred by statute of limitation while absent from the United States ... 49

  Case of John Hughes not to be excepted out of the operation of the acts of limitation ... 77

  Report of a committee recommending claims of commissioned officers to invalid pensions who have received their commutation to be barred, unless such commutation be first returned ... 78

  All claims not presented in the name of the original claimant barred from settlement and allowance by the act of 27th March, 1792 ... 123

  Claims of certain persons paid by South Carolina, and barred from a settlement at the Treasury, recommended by a committee to be allowed ... 123

  Act of 28th February in relation to invalid pension claims not construed to repeal any limitation act so as to revive former acts repealed ... 146, 218

  Acts of limitation ought not to bar religious or literary institutions of their right to indemnity for the use of and injury to their property by the troops of the United States ... 198

  Report of a committee on the expediency of designating certain claims against the United States which ought to be excepted from the operation of the act of limitation ... 202

  Review of the various acts and resolves of Congress barring claims against the United States, by a committee ... 202

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• Limitation--Adherence to the acts of limitation in settling claims against the United States, recommended by committee ... 203

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, stating the various sums barred by the operation of the act providing for the support of public credit and the redemption of the public debt ... 209

  Suggestions of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to a course to be followed, in case of a repeal of the act barring certificates and indents ... 209

  Claim of Lucy Clark for military services and indemnity for responsibility incurred on public account by her late husband, barred by statutes of limitation ... 210

  Time for presenting claims for certain lost or destroyed certificates, fixed by act of Congress of 24th April, 1794, held to extend to loan office and final settlement certificates ... 216

  Acts and resolves of Congress fixing the time for presenting claims to invalid pensions ... 217

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of claims for supplies, &c. during the revolutionary war, barred by acts of limitation ... 290, 291

  Classes of claims against the United States, which are barred by acts of limitation ... 291, 384

  Report of committee of what description of claims against the United States barred by acts of limitation, ought to be paid ... 33

  All just and equitable claims, barred by acts of limitation, recommended by committee to be provided for by law ... 333

  Claim of J. Murray for the payment of sundry loan office certificates barred by acts of limitation ... 369

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the amount of the balances standing on the books of the Treasury barred by limitation act ... 384

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the probable effect of repealing the operation of the statutes of limitation from certain classes of claims already barred ... 386

  What description of claims would be affected by a repeal of the limitation acts ... 386

  Statement of claims adjusted and allowed at the Treasury under an act providing for the settlement of claims, under particular circumstances, heretofore barred by act of limitation ... 387

  Resolve of Congress of 2d November, 1785, limitating the time for presenting claims for military and naval services ... 406

  Act of 27th March, 1792, suspending said resolve, in certain cases, for the space of two years ... 406

  Claims pertaining to the late commissary's, quartermaster's, hospital, clothier's, or marine departments, barred under certain circumstances by the resolve of 23d July, 1787 ... 406

  Said resolve, so far as it bars the claim of officers or soldiers of the army or navy, suspended by act of 27th March, 1792, for the space of two years ... 406

  Time for presenting claims for services or supplies previous to 4th March, 1789, not already barred, fixed by the act of 12th February, 1793, 1st May, 1794 ... 406

  Time for presenting claims for the renewal of lost or destroyed certificates, fixed by act of 21st April, 1794 ... 407

  Time allowed for the exchange of loan office or other certificates for others of equal value, by the act of 3d March, 1795 ... 407

  Time for receiving on loan the domestic debt of the United States further extended by act of 19th February, 1796 ... 407

  So much of the act of 3d March, 1795, as bars from settlement loan office or final settlement certificates, suspended by act of 12th June, 1798, for the space of one year ... 407

  Time within which claims against the United States for credits on the books of the Treasury may be presented for allowance, fixed by act of 9th July, 1798 ... 407

  Report of committee against the expediency of repealing any of the acts of limitation by which loan office or other certificates, indents of interest on the public debt, credits for the payment of the army for which no certificates were issued, and invalid pensions are barred ... 414

  Claim of J. Mercereau for revolutionary services barred by act of limitation ... 695

• Lincoln, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Lincoln, Mark, report of committee in favor of his claim in right of his wife, late widow of Major Willard Moore, to seven years' half-pay ... 70
• Lindsay, John, Major, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• Lindsay, Samuel, a lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• Lindsay, William, Major, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Linsey, James, report of committee against the claim of for loss by the purchase of a tract of land sold for taxes due to the United States ... 445
• Linton, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Literary and religious institutions. See Institutions.
• Little, John, a captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93
• Little, John, claim of for further compensation for his services as a clerk while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia, allowed by committee ... 79
• Livezay & Paul, claim of for two horses impressed into service, not allowed ... 181
• Livingston, Moses, claim of allowed ... 402
• Loan office certificates. (See Certificates.)
• Loans under the act of March, 1814, report of committee against allowing a claim for the amount of the difference between the prices at which certain were made ... 771, 824
• Logan, Hugh, claim of allowed ... 400
• Lollar, Daniel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Long, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Longstretch, Elias, claim of allowed ... 394
• Longville, Francis B., report of committee recommending an indefinite postponement of the bill from the Senate granting relief to, for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814--'15 ... 730
• Loomis, Jacob. report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Loomis, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 115
• Loomiss, Amasa, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lord, Elias, claim of allowed ... 396
• Lord, George, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 115
• Lord, James, claim of allowed ... 395
• Loring, Joseph, corporal, claim of allowed ... 398
• Loring Joseph, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Loring, William, his claim barred by the statute of limitations while absent from the United States ... 49

  Claim of allowed ... 388

• Lorman, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Lottery tickets. (See Certificates.)
• Loughred, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Love, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Love, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Love, William, Lieutenant, claim of allowed ... 402
• Love, William, sergeant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103, 172
• Lovejoy, Joshua, claim of for an invalid pension ... 135

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• Lovill, Robert, claim of allowed ... 397
• Loving, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Low, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397
• Lowill, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Lowrey, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 401
• Lowther, William, claim of allowed ... 392
• Luce, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 400
• Lucus, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lucy, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Luddington, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Lunsford, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lunt, Skipper, claim of allowed ... 391
• Lunt William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 118, 152
• Lutheran church in Rheland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of the claim of the trustees of, use of and damage to said church by the troops of the United States ... 198
• Lutterloh, Henry E., report of the Secretary of War against his claim to commutation of half-pay and land as a deputy quartermaster general, and in favor of allowing him his expenses from Europe to the United States ... 18
• Lyman, Elihu, claim of allowed ... 396
• Lyman, Richard, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Lynch, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Lyon, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 398
• Lyon, Matthew, report of committee in favor of the claim of for indemnity against a judgment and costs of a suit against him for a violation of the sedition law ... 737
• Lyons, Peter Jr., claim of for a deputy quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 177
• M.
• McAllister, Abdiel, claim of allowed ... 397
• McAllister, James, claim of allowed ... 402, 405
• McCabe, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 401
• McCannon, Christopher, claim of for an invalid pension ... 122
• McCarty, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 397
• McCarty, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 394
• McCartney, John, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for cattle illegally seized and sold ... 753
• McCaskell, Finley, claim of allowed ... 397
• McCauley, John, a prize agent, report of committee against the claim of for a vessel captured for a breach of the blockade of the port of Tripoli in 1804 ... 479
• McCauley, Matthew, report of committee against the claim of for the payment of a quartermaster's certificate barred by statute of limitation ... 644
• McChesney, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• McClane, Charles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• McClary, Elizabeth, widow of Major Andrew McClary, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing her seven years' half-pay ... 70
• McClenachan, Blair, claim of allowed ... 394
• McClure, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• McComb, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96
• McCondry, William, claim of allowed ... 402
• McConnell, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 399
• McCormick, Alexander, report of a committee against the claim of for property plundered by the enemy in 1814 ... 503, 668
• McCormick, Charles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• McCrackin, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• McCrackin, William, claim of allowed ... 391
• McCraw, William, claim of allowed ... 406
• McCrea, John, a custom-house officer, who was taken prisoner by the Indians, report of a committee against granting relief to ... 559
• McCulloch, J. H., an officer of the customs, report of a committee in favor of granting him extra compensation ... 478
• McCullough, Hugh, report of a committee against indemnifying him against loss by a defective title to a lot, sold for the benefit of the United States ... 678
• McCullough, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103
• McCune, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• McCutcheon, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• McDaniel, James, claim of allowed ... 402
• McDonald, Donald, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• McDonald, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 128
• McDonald, James, late captain, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of the widow of for credit for certain suspended items in his accounts ... 668
• McDonald, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• McDonald, William, claim of allowed ... 389
• McDowell, Hugh, claim of allowed ... 403
• McElroy, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• McEwen, Thomas, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 176
• McFall, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• McFarland, Mordecai, claim of allowed ... 401
• McFarland, William, report of a committee against allowing him an increase of pension ... 671
• McFarren, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 400
• McGee, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• McGee, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• McGee, Robert, claim of allowed ... 387
• McGee, Robert, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• McGennegal, William, claim of allowed ... 387
• McGhaw, James, claim of allowed ... 401
• McGillis, Randolph, claim of for militia services, considered as settled by the convention between the State of Georgia and the United States ... 289, 290
• McGirt, Zachariah, report of a committee against granting him indemnity against losses occasioned by the Creek war ... 550
• McGraw, Arthur, claim of allowed ... 401

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• McGraw, Solomon, claim of allowed ... 400
• McGrew, Peter, claim of allowed ... 396
• McGrow, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 401
• McGuire, Elijah, claim of allowed ... 399
• McHatton, John, report of a committee against allowing him commutation and bounty land ... 803
• McHatton, William, report of the Secretary of War in favor of placing him on the pension list ... 75, 145
• McHoney, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 398
• McIntire, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 387
• McIntosh, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 122, 164
• McKannon, Christopher, claim of for an invalid pension ... 164
• McKean, James, an army captain, report of a committee against his claim for military services ... 863
• McKennon, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• McKewan, Michael, report of a committee against his claim for indemnity for a slave lost in public service, and for sundry final settlement certificates ... 838
• McKinsey, John, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 115
• McKinsley, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• McKinsley, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• McKinstrey, John, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 157, 401
• McKisick, Daniel, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 168
• McKnight, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• McLane, A., Colonel, report of a committee against allowing him half-pay for life after it had been commuted ... 456
• McLean, Argus, claim of allowed ... 405
• McLowrey, Alexander, an ensign, half-pay not allowed, by the State of Connecticut, to the representatives of ... 72
• McMackin, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• McMahan, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• McMeyers, Andrew, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• McMickee, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• McNeal, Hopestill, claim of allowed ... 392
• McNeal, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 405
• McNeal and Taylor, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for indemnity for scows sunk for the defence of Baltimore ... 466
• McNeale, Lewis, claim of allowed
• McNiff, Catharine, report of committee against granting her indemnity for injury done to a house rented to the Government ... 611
• McVay, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• McVicar, John, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 177
• McWilliams, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 391
• Machin, Susannah, widow of Captain Thos. Machin, report of a committee against the claim of for arrears of pension ... 497
• Mackey, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Macneill, Archibald F., report of a committee against allowing him credit on his account for lost vouchers ... 880
• Mactier, Alexander, report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss of a ship and cargo for want of a clearance ... 814
• Madison barracks at Sackett's Harbor, report of a committee against a claim for labor and materials for the erection of ... 839
• Magill, Charles, claim of allowed ... 394
• Magruder, George, and others, report of a committee on the claim of for indemnity for the loss of a ship while employed in the public service ... 615

  Memorial of, on the subject of said claim ... 617

  Objections to the claim of ... 618

• Maguis, Joseph, claim of allowed
• Mahany, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Mail carrier shot while carrying the mail through the Creek nation, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to a ... 322

  Killed in service, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to the widow of a ... 736

• Maintenance of a wounded soldier, report of a committee against a claim for the expenses of the ... 552
• Maitland, Robert, a deputy commissary, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Major, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Makins, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• Malcolm, David, claim of allowed ... 390
• Malcolm, Henry, a collector, report of a committee agsinst allowing him credit in his accounts for the sum of money lost by mail ... 383

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on said claim ... 459

• Malcolm, Henry, a surgeon in the navy, claim of allowed ... 389
• Malcour, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Mallone, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Mallone, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Mallour, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
• Malone, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Maloy, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Maltimer, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Manly, John, Captain, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Mann, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Mansfield, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 390
• Manwaring, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Margery, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Marine, agent of the, resolve of Congress appointing a ... 705
• Markland, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Markle, Abraham, a Canadian refugee, report of a committee in favor of granting relief to ... 457
• Marks, Peter, claim of allowed ... 399
• Markward, William, report of a committee against granting him indemnity for loss of his property by the burning of the War Office ... 249
• Marlow, Mark, claim of allowed ... 393
• Marr, Edward, claim of allowed ... 404
• Marr, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Marselus, Garret, claim of allowed ... 401
• Marsh, Samuel, brigade inspector, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Marsh, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Marston, John, report of a committee against his claim for the payment of certain new emission bills ... 215
• Martin, Archibald, claim of allowed ... 395

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• Martin & Bass, claim of for the renewal of certain certificates, not allowed ... 258
• Martin, Robert, claim of allowed ... 397
• Martin & White, report of a committee against paying them for a quantity of timber thrown on their hands by the Government ... 249
• Martin, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 93, 156
• Marvin, Benjamin, a captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Maser, Cruise, claim of allowed ... 394
• Mason, Aaron, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Mason, George, report of a committee in favor of granting him a pension ... 276
• Mason, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Massie, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• Materials, &c., furnished for the erection of barracks, report of a committee against the claim of H. Lawrence for compensation for ... 839
• Mather, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Mathew, Thomas, a brigadier general, claim of for forage, disallowed ... 429
• Matthews, John, report of a committee allowing him further compensation for his services as a clerk while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Mattison, Broadway, claim of allowed ... 388
• Maupin, Gabriel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Maxey, Levi, claim of allowed ... 396
• Maxwell, Hugh, a captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• May, James, report of a committee in favor of allowing him indemnity for damages done to his property by the troops of the United States ... 769
• Mayer, Hanhendrick, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144
• Mayhew, Thaddeus, report of a committee in favor of allowing him indemnity for property destroyed by the British and American troops in 1815 ... 592

  Report of a committee recommending a reduction of the indemnity heretofore allowed on the claim of ... 645

• Maynard, John, a quartermaster sergeant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 140
• Mead, Tilley, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• Meaderis, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Meadows, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 403
• Meddard, Peter, claim of allowed ... 395
• Medical services by an officer of the line, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing extra pay for ... 7
• Megler, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Meigs, Return J., report of a committee allowing him further compensation for attendance as a witness on the trial of Aaron Burr ... 364
• Meigs, Return J. Jr., report of a committee allowing him compensation for performing the duties of judge for the territory northwest of the Ohio ... 311
• Melliot, Ferrol, claim of allowed ... 393
• Melvin, James, claim of allowed ... 406
• Mercer, Hugh, a brigadier general, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Mercer, Robert, claim of allowed ... 388
• Mercereau, John, sen., report of a committee against his claim for revolutionary services ... 695
• Merchants, report of a committee against the petition of certain, of Newburyport, for the return of the cost of two piers erected by them in the Merrimack river ... 314
• Meredith & Clymer, claim of allowed ... 396
• Merifield, Abraham, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 119
• Merriman, Josiah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116, 153
• Merritt, Asa, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Merritt, Drewry, claim of allowed ... 388
• Mew, George, claim of allowed ... 396
• Meyer, John, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 180
• Michigan Territory, report of the Secretary of State on the claims of sundry inhabitants of for indemnity against losses by the surrender of said Territory to the enemy in 1812 ... 529
• Middleton, Elijah, claim of allowed ... 387
• Mifflin, Benjamin and Andrew, report of committee in favor of their claim for expenses incurred in removing the purveyor's office ... 287
• Miles, Richard, claim of allowed ... 389
• Miles, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 392
• Miles, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Military and naval service of the United States, report of committee against repealing the act providing for certain persons engaged in the during the Revolution ... 682
• Military services, report against the claims of Hugh Hughes for compensation for, during the Revolution ... 255
• Military services and expenditures, claim of J. Thompson for, barred by statute of limitations ... 371

  Claim of the representative of the late Col. John Laurens for his military and diplomatic services allowed ... 607

  Report of committee against the claim of John Staples for, in the Revolution ... 609

  Report of committee against the claim of Captain McKean for ... 863

• Militia claims, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of Hugh L. White for his militia services against the Indians in 1793 ... 192

  Report of committee against the claims of certain inhabitants of Pennsylvania for indemnity for loss sustained by the militia in 1794 ... 218

  Of the State of Georgia, report of the Secretary of War on the petition of sundry officers and soldiers of the Georgia militia, for compensation for their services against the Indians in 1792 ... 226

  Statement of facts in relation to said claims by Constant Freeman ... 233

  Report of the Secretary of War transmitting correspondence and documents relative to the Georgia militia claims ... 277

  Reports of committee in favor of making provision by law for the payment of said claims ... 284, 504, 515, 864

  Report of committee against the claim of Randolph and McGillis for militia services in the State of Georgia ... 289

  Of the State of Georgia, to be liquidated by said State when created within her jurisdiction ... 289

  Considered as included in the convention between the United States and said State ... 289--'90

  Report of committee against the memorial of the Legislature of Georgia, praying payment for the services of the militia of that State in 1792,--'3,--'4 ... 856

  Memorial of the Legislature of Georgia asking payment for said services ... 857

  Of the State of Virginia, report of committee against allowing the ... 426

  Exhibit of the claims of the State of Virginia for militia services which have been disallowed on a settlement made at the accountant's office ... 427

  Report of committee against allowing the claim of an officer for a balance due to a company of militia ... 676

• Militia services, (see Militia claims.)
• Millan, Richard, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 129

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• Miller, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 406
• Miller & Baker, report of committee allowing them indemnity for a house burnt while occupied by the troops of the United States ... 547
• Miller, Charles, claim of allowed ... 393
• Miller, Christopher, report of committee allowing him a compensation for carrying a flag of truce to the hostile Indians in 1794 ... 415, 689
• Miller, Daniel, report of committee allowing indemnity to for property destroyed by the military in 1799 ... 361
• Miller, David, claim of allowed ... 398
• Miller, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 393, 402
• Miller, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94, 406
• Miller, John, an army paymaster, report of committee against allowing him indemnity for a sum of money lost by him ... 879
• Miller, Noah, a revenue officer, his claim for a pension allowed ... 523
• Miller, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Mills, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Milton, William, et al. report of the Secretary of War on their claim for militia services in the State of Georgia in 1793 ... 226
• Milwood, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Minor, Amos, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Minor, Stephen, claim of for an invalid pension ... 66, 116, 142
• Minifie, Charles, report of committee on the claim of for masts, spars, and other materials furnished to the navy yard at Washington ... 377
• Mint, report of the Director of the, on the claim of John Vaughan for indemnity for loss on various deposites of bullion in the, for coinage ... 220
• Mississippi Territory, memorial of Legislature of the praying indemnity for losses by Indian depredations ... 448

  Report of a committee referring said memorial to the President of the United States ... 452

  Report of a committee against said memorial ... 460

• Mitchell, George, report of a committee allowing him further compensation for doing duty as a clerk while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Mitchell, John, an agent for the exchange of prisoners of war, report of a committee against his claim for indemnity against the loss of certain money by dishonesty of his agent ... 891
• Mitchell, Richard, report of a committee against releasing him from responsibility as a surety for a collector of revenues ... 420
• Moarhouse, Rial, claim of allowed ... 390
• Molton, Robert, a captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Moncrief, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 394
• Monday, William, a dismissed officer, his claim for a pension rejected ... 333
• Monett, Samuel, report of a committee against allowing him damages for a breach of contract ... 843
• Money fraudulently obtained from the United States, directed to be sued for by the Attorney General ... 590
• Money lost by mail, report of a committee against crediting a collector for in his accounts ... 383

  In the public service, report of a committee against indemnifying a marine officer for ... 437, 589

  Report of a committee against granting indemnity to a paymaster of militia for ... 449

  Report of a committee granting indemnity to Daniel Gold and others, militiamen, for money lost by their agent ... 457

  Report of a committee against granting indemnity to an army paymaster for ... 458, 525, 879

  Report of a committee allowing indemnity to a collector of revenue for ... 459

  Report of a committee against allowing indemnity to a recruiting officer for ... 461, 488, 549

  Report of a committee against granting indemnity to a commander of a volunteer company for ... 499

  Report of a committee granting indemnity to H. White, an army officer, for ... 536

  Report of a committee allowing indemnity to a deputy collector for ... 541

  Report of a committee allowing indemnity to a collector of revenue for ... 641

  Report of a committee against allowing indemnity to a purser in the navy for ... 453, 674, 778

  Report of a committee allowing credit to an army paymaster in his accounts for ... 844

  Report of a committee against allowing indemnity to an agent for the exchange of prisoners for money lost by the dishonesty of his agent ... 891

• Money stolen from a public agent may be credited under certain circumstances ... 32, 69
• Monopoly, report of a committee against the claim of Gregoire Sarpy for indemnity for loss by the interruption of a, granted to him by the Spanish Government ... 432
• Montgomery, Andrew, report of a committee against granting him indemnity for the loss of a slave and his military clothes ... 453
• Montgomery, Richard, a Major General, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Montreuil, Madame, report of a committee allowing her indemnity for property injured during the defence of New Orleans ... 521
• Monty, Francis, a Lieutenant, claim of for invalid pension ... 94, 403
• Moody, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 399
• Moon, James, claim of allowed ... 393
• Mooney, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 403
• Moore, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 390, 395
• Moore, Christopher, claim of for invalid pension ... 118
• Moore, Cleon, claim of allowed ... 401
• Moore, Daniel, a Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Moore, Edward, claim of allowed ... 399
• Moore, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Moore, Stephen, report of the Secretary of War in favor of his claim for compensation for the use and occupation of West Point as a fortification ... 19
• Moore, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Moore, Willard, late Major, report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting his children seven years' half-pay ... 70
• Moore, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 106, 397
• Moorehouse, David, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Moran, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 394
• Morehead, Charles, claim of allowed ... 392
• Morgan, David, claim of allowed ... 398
• Morgan, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 405
• Morgan, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Morgan, Zaquille, late Captain, report of committee allowing a pension to his widow ... 457
• Morocco, compensation made to the agent who negotiated a commercial treaty with ... 24
• Morrell, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Morris, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Morris, Richard G., report of a committee against the claim of for the payment of two quartermaster general's certificates ... 816
• Morris, Robert, and others, assignees of Comfort Sands. (See Comfort Sands.)
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• Morris, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 396
• Morris, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 399
• Morrison, George, claim of allowed ... 387
• Morrison, James, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of for advances made to a deputy commissary general ... 821
• Morrow, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Morrow, Mark, claim of allowed ... 393
• Morrow, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 402
• Morse, Elijah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Morse, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 161
• Mory, Lewis, claim of allowed ... 388
• Moscat, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• Mosely, Samuel, report of committee allowing him indemnity for property destroyed by the military in 1799 ... 361
• Mosely, William, report of committee allowing his claim for assisting in taking the third census in South Carolina ... 472

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of said claim ... 472

• Mosely, William, a conductor of military stores, claim of allowed ... 399
• Motes, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Motlow, J. claim of for indemnity for Indian depredations in 1781, report of committee against allowing the ... 445
• Motte, Charles, late Major, report of the Secretary of War allowing seven years' half-pay to his children ... 30, 405
• Mounger, Thomas, an army contractor, report of committee against his claim for further allowances ... 298
• Mounted riflemen of Kentucky, report of committee against allowing indemnity to sundry inhabitants of Knox county, Indiana, for depredations by the ... 606
• Mountford, Timothy, seaman, his claim barred by statute of limitation while absent from the United States ... 49
• Mountjoy, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Mour, George, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Mowrey, Pero, claim of allowed ... 405
• Mowatt, John, claim of for a draft of a paymaster general, inadmissible ... 175, 181
• Mullenheim, Ferdinand, report of committee against allowing him indemnity against loss by the insolvency of a marshal of Maryland ... 357
• Mullin, Dennis, claim of allowed ... 403
• Mullins, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Mullowney, John, report of committee against allowing him indemnity for a vessel captured within the limits of the United States by a French cruiser ... 379
• Mumford, Augustus, an adjutant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Mumford, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 404
• Mumford, William, agent, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, against compensating him for time spent in settling the public accounts of his principal ... 7
• Munday, William, claim of allowed ... 390
• Munoz, Alonzo B., report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss of a vessel and cargo captured by an American cruiser ... 871
• Munroe, Elijah, claim of allowed ... 391
• Munsell, Elisha, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• Murphey, Barney, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Murphy, Edward, claim of allowed ... 400
• Murphy, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 388
• Murphy, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 400
• Murray, John, report of committee against his claim for the payment of sundry certificates barred by statute of limitation ... 369
• Murray, Lawrence, claim of allowed ... 404
• Mutineer at sea, report of committee in favor of a claim for securing and transporting of a ... 287
• Muzzy, Amos, a defaulting postmaster, report of committee in favor of granting him relief ... 830
• Myers, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 394
• N.
• Nagle, Peter, claim of allowed ... 390
• Nanna, Abraham, report against the claim of for damage done to his farm by the army in 1777 ... 180
• Narny, Andrew, report against his claim for a deputy quartermaster general's certificate ... 178
• Nash, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 401
• Naval and land service of the United States, report of committee against repealing the act providing for certain persons engaged in the, during the Revolution ... 682
• Navy, report of the Secretary of War on the claims of officers and seamen which have been barred by the statute of limitations while absent from the United States ... 49
• Navy and admiralty boards abolished by resolve of Congress of 21st August, 1781 ... 705
• Neale, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 401
• Needham, William A., claim of allowed ... 403
• Neil, Robert, an assistant quartermaster, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claim of for horses and cattle captured from the enemy ... 52
• Nellis, Henry W., claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Nelson, Richard, claim of allowed ... 395
• Nero, Enos, claim of allowed ... 395
• Nestle, Gotlieb, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Nevil, Zachariah, claim of allowed ... 397
• Nevil, John, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on his claim for property destroyed by rioters in 1794 ... 236
• Newburyport, report of committee against reimbursing the merchants of, the cost of the erection of two piers in the Merrimack river ... 314
• New emission bills, faith of the United States pledged for the payment of, in case any State on whose funds they shall be emitted, should, by the events of war, be incapable of redeeming them ... 174

  Not considered as forming any part of the debt of the United States ... 174

  Claims of sundry holders of reported on by the Secretary of the Treasury ... 174

  Report of committee against the claim of Joseph Ball and others, holders of certain, for indemnity for the depreciation of said bills ... 215

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claim of Joseph Ward for the payment of sundry ... 250

• Newman, Henry, claim of for the payment of certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• New Orleans, indemnity granted to the sufferers by loss of property in the defence of ... 521--'22--'25--'53--'92

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• Newton, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Niagara frontier, report of committee on the subject of the spoliations committed by the enemy on the, in the year 1813 ... 603
• Niblach, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Nicholls, Caleb, report of committee granting him indemnity for injury done to his property by firing on the enemy ... 507
• Nichols, Thompson, report of committee in favor of granting him indemnity for property destroyed by the troops in 1799 ... 361
• Nicholson, Francis, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Nicholson, John, claim of for the payment of certain continental bills, inadmissible ... 175, 179
• Nicholson, John, surgeon, claim of allowed ... 404
• Nick, Eve, claim of allowed ... 398
• Nick, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Nicolls, Simon, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Niel, Daniel, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Nix, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Nixon, George, clerk, report of committee against granting him further compensation ... 79
• Nixon, John, Colonel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111, 140
• Nixon, Robert, claim of allowed ... 405
• Noble, Gideon, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Norcot, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Norris, Alexander, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• North Carolina, claim of the State of for credit on the books of the Treasury to the amount of certain claims paid by her, which were properly demandable from the United States, report of committee in favor of the ... 123
• Northgate, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 389
• Northup, Ichabod, claim of allowed ... 403
• Norton, Beriah, report of committee against him aid to prosecute a claim against the British Government for supplies furnished to their troops ... 226
• Norton, Elnathan, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages ... 61, 112, 153
• Norwood, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 387
• Nowling, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Nowton, Moses, claim of allowed ... 396
• Noyes, Simeon, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Noyes, Wadleigh, late lieutenant, claim of his children to seven years' half-pay, admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30

  Report of a committee against allowing said claim ... 777

• Nute, Jotham, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137, 139
• O.
• Obart, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 168
• Obert, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 67, 121, 168
• Oblenis, Garret, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• O'Brancher, Philip, claim of allowed ... 399
• O'Brien, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 401
• O'Bryan & Wade, letter of the Register of the Treasury on their appointment as loan officers ... 466
• Odell, Nathan, claim of for property used by the army of the United States, inadmissible ... 180
• Officers, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against their claims for time spent in settling their accounts ... 7, 16

  Of the South Carolina line, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against allowing interest on the warrants issued to them under the resolve of Congress of 10th October, 1786 ... 8

  List of who died in service previous to 28th May, 1778, and to whose widows and orphans seven years' half-pay has been granted ... 72

  List of whose representatives have not received half-pay ... 72

  (Commissioned) who have received their commutation of half-pay, not entitled to invalid pensions, until such commutation shall be first returned ... 75, 78, 134, 217, 218, 558

  Deranged after the 31st December, 1780, and who continued in service until the end of the war, entitled to half-pay for life, or to commutation thereof ... 84

  Exchanged between the 25th of October and the 31st of December, 1780, entitled to receive commutation ... 129

  (Continental) who are or may be exchanged, and not continued in service, considered as supernumerary, and entitled to the pay provided by the resolve of Congress of the 29th of November, 1779 ... 133

  Disbanded or deranged by act of 1796, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing them an extension of pay to cover their travelling expenses to their several homes ... 195

  Civil and judicial of the late territory northwest of the Ohio, to have their pay continued until superseded by State appointments ... 311

  Of the revolutionary army, report of a committee in favor of the claims of sundry for half-pay for life, in lieu of five years' full-pay ... 372

  Report of a committee against the claim of sundry surviving revolutionary officers, for an adjustment of their half-pay for life ... 591

  Further report of a committee on said claims ... 611

  Report of a committee in favor of adjusting said claims ... 677

• O'Flyng, Abigail, report of a committee allowing her bounty land for extraordinary military services of her husband and sons ... 469
• O'Hara, Thomas, late a clerk in the Treasury Department, claim of the family of for relief, allowed by a committee ... 79
• O'Hara, Timothy, claim of allowed ... 387
• Oldfield, John J. C., report of a committee against the claim of for sundry paymaster general's drafts ... 863
• Oliphant, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 389
• Oliver, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 396
• Oliver, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Oliver, William, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• O'Neal & Taylor, report of a committee against the claim of for a vessel lost in the flotilla service ... 454

  Claim of not within the act providing for the payment for property destroyed by the enemy ... 487

• Opinions of the Attorney General. (See Attorney General.)
• Oram, Darby, claim of allowed ... 391
• Ore, James, report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for loss by Indian depredations ... 193
• Ormond, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 127, 163
• Ornor, Michael, claim of for an invalid pension ... 98
• Orphans, claims of should not be barred by the statutes of limitation ... 30

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• Orrell, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 388
• Osage Indians, report of a committee against granting indemnity to Gregoire Sarpy, for the deprivation of his exclusive right to trade with the, granted to him by the Spanish Government ... 602
• Osborn, James, claim of allowed ... 396
• Osborn, Jeremiah, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Ostander, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 405
• Otis, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 153
• Owen, David, claim of allowed ... 389
• Owen, Philip, claim of allowed ... 398
• Owens, Caleb, claim of allowed ... 402
• Owens, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• P.
• Page, Jonas, claim of allowed ... 395
• Pame, Thomas, memorial of, asking remuneration of his services in aiding to obtain money to carry on the revolutionary war and for other services ... 357

  Report of a committee against the claim of ... 366

• Palmer, Isaac, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Palmer, Jared, claim of for an invalid pension ... 145, 172
• Palmer, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Palmer, Martin, a lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Palmer, Michael, claim of allowed ... 404
• Palmer, Pledge, claim of allowed ... 399
• Parmil, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 387
• Pardee, Chandler, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88, 165
• Parish, Jasper, report of a committee against his claim for the use and destruction of his property by the army ... 610
• Park, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101
• Parker, Daniel, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of his memorial for a composition of his debt ... 73
• Parker, Daniel, a lieutenant, claim of allowed ... 392
• Parker, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 401
• Parker, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Parker, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 401
• Parker, Joseph, clerk, claim of for extra pay, report of committee in favor of the ... 124
• Parker, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 389
• Parker, Sarah, widow of Colonel Moses Parker, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing her seven years' half-pay ... 70
• Parker, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112
• Parkhurst, Phineas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Parkman, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 392
• Parkman, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Parks, Jonas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Parmelee, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 143
• Parmelie, Jeremiah, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Parmenter, James, claim of allowed ... 401
• Parnell, James, claim of allowed ... 401
• Parsons & Flannigain, report of committee against granting them indemnity against loss on a contract ... 585
• Parsons, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 392
• Partlow, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Partridge, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Passinger, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 400
• Patchin, Ebenezer, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 153
• Patterson, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Patteson, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 396
• Paul & Livezay, claim of for horses impressed into public service barred by act of limitation ... 175, 181
• Paul, Maurice, claim of allowed ... 393
• Paulding, John, report of committee against granting him an increase of annuity ... 500
• Payne, John, jun. a cadet, report of committee against granting him a pension ... 686
• Peabody, Joseph, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 110, 162
• Peacock, John, Ensign, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Peacock, William, Lieut., claim of for militia services ... 506
• Pearce, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Pearse, Richard, claim of allowed ... 388
• Pearson, Amos, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• Pearson, Shadrack, claim of allowed ... 405
• Peace, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 394
• Pease, Melatiah, claim of allowed ... 393
• Peck, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Peck, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Peck, Robert M., claim of allowed ... 389
• Peckman, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 392
• Peed & Brooks, report of committee against the claim of for legal costs incurred in prosecuting a suit for a supposed violation of a law against the importation of negroes ... 307
• Pelaskie, Charles G., claim of for sundry new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Penalties under the sedition law, proceedings of a circuit court of the United States for enforcing the ... 738
• Pendleton, David, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112
• Pennsylvania, claim of sundry inhabitants of for damages done to their property by the military in 1794, report of committee against the ... 218
• Penny, Joshua, report of committee against indemnifying him for British cruelty ... 447
• Pension claims, report of the Secretary of War against the claim of a deceased officer to a pension which had been rejected by a State ... 5

  Report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting pensions to certain invalid officers, who had received their commutation of half-pay ... 6

  Report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting pensions to certain invalid soldiers who had neglected to avail themselves of the resolve of Congress of the 11th June, 1788 ... 8

  Report of the Secretary of War against increasing or modifying pensions assigned to invalids by the respective States ... 18

  Claim of an invalid officer to a pension allowed on his surrendering his certificate of commutation ... 23

  Report of committee against the claim of John Hoxie for a commutation of his pension ... 249

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• Pension claims, report of committee against the claim of the widow of an army surgeon for a pension ... 273

  Report of committee against the claim of the representatives of George Wilson to a pension ... 276

  Report of committee against the claim of Zebulon Wade, for a pension ... 381

• How paid in States where there is no loan office established ... 454

  The number and distinctions of pension claims ... 454

  Claim of the widow of Captain Z. Morgan to a pension allowed ... 457

  Report of committee against altering the law requiring proof to establish claims to pensions ... 473

  Report against the petition of James Ware for a pension ... 504

  Claim of a revenue officer for a pension allowed ... 523

  Report of committee against the claim of J. Burceil for a pension ... 534

  Claim of Monsieur Poirey for a pension ... 605

  Commissioned officers who have received their commutation of half-pay not entitled to pensions until their commutation be first returned ... 75, 78, 134, 217, 218, 558

  Claim of A. Turney for a pension rejected ... 640

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of Ruth Reed for a pension ... 675

  Rules and regulations for substantiating claims to pensions under the act of 18th March, 1818 ... 683--'84

  Report of committee against the claim of a cadet for a pension ... 686

  Report of the Secretary of War of the number of pensioners placed on the pension roll, under the act of the 18th of March, 1818 ... 700, 703, 885

  Report of a committee against the claim of the widow of a post captain in the navy for a pension ... 755

  Report of a committee against the claim of E. Rogers to a pension ... 769

  Report of a committee against the claim of A. Haskins for a pension ... 779

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of James Brown for a pension ... 792

  Report of a committee against the claim of Ichabod Keith for a pension ... 802

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of Wm. Thompson for a pension ... 835

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of C. Huson for a pension ... 844

  Report of a committee against the claim of Caleb Childs for a pension ... 874

  Report of the Secretary of War of the amount paid for pension claims during the years 1818 to 1822 ... 885

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of certain Indian chiefs for pensions ... 891

• Pension claims, (invalid,) report of the Secretary of War, recommending an adherence to the limitation prescribed, within which applications may be made for an invalid pension ... 28

  Report of the Secretary of War stating the entire number of, received prior to the 23d of March, 1792 ... 57

  Number of received since the 29th May, 1794 ... 134

  Number of received since the 30th of December, 1794 ... 149--157

  Number of received since the 21st of February, 1795 ... 158--165

  Report of a committee on the various acts and resolves of Congress in relation to invalid pensions, and suggesting a course to be adopted ... 78

  List of certificates and applicants for invalid pensions, transmitted by the judges of the various district courts of the United States to the War Department ... 85--128

  Amount of annual payments made to invalid pensioners ... 454

  Commissioned officers not entitled to invalid pensions who have received their commutation of half-pay, until such commutation be first returned ... 75, 78, 134, 217, 218, 558

  Report of the Secretary of War on the subject of ... 893

  Opinion of the Attorney General as to the time when testimony for invalid pension claims is fully complete, under the act of May, 1820 ... 893

• Pension claims, (revolutionary,) reports of the Secretary of War, transmitting information as to the number of ... 824, 836

  Opinion of the Attorney General on certain questions relating to revolutionary pension claims ... 837

  Report of the Secretary of War of the number of claimants placed on the roll, under the acts of March, 1818, and May, 1820 ... 873

• Pensions, (arrears of,) report of a committee on the claim of Josiah Witter for ... 78

  Report of a committee against the claim of Joab Stafford for ... 146

  Arrears of pension not allowed under the act of the 28th of February, 1793 ... 146

  Report of a committee against allowing arrears of pension in any case to applicants under the said act ... 146

• Pensions, (increase of,) report of the Secretary of War against increasing pensions assigned to invalids by the respective States ... 18

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of R. Taylor for an increase of pension ... 310

  Report of a committee against allowing an increase of pension to the widow of a prize master in the private armed service ... 447

  Report of a committee in favor of increasing the rates of pensions to disabled officers and soldiers ... 473

  Report of a committee against allowing an increase of pension to W. McFarland ... 671

  Report of a committee against allowing an increase of pension to Captain Jos. de Beaulieu ... 676

• Peoples, David, an ensign, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Peoples, William, claim of allowed ... 402
• Perfect, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 396
• Perjury and subornation of perjury, report of a committee recommending suits to be instituted for the detection of, in support of fraudulent claims ... 590
• Perkins, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Perkins, John, report of a committee against the claim of for materials, &c. furnished for the erection of barracks ... 839
• Perkins, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 387
• Perkins, Obadiah, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 141
• Perkins, Thomas, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Perkins, Thomas, amount of certificate issued to him ... 397
• Perrit, Peter, Captain, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for commutation ... 129, 133

  Opinion of the Attorney General on said claim ... 184

• Perry, William, Ensign, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Peters, David, report of a committee on the claim of the executors of, and others, for indemnity for the loss of a ship while engaged in the public employ ... 615
• Peters, Sarah, widow of a surgeon in the army, report of a committee against allowing her a pension ... 273
• Pettigrew, John and James, report of a committee against the claim of for depredations on their property by the Indians ... 309

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of ... 379

  Pettit, Charles, surviving partner of Major General Greene and John Cox in the office of quartermaster general, report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and of a committee on the claim of, for a commission of one per cent. on the estimate of the unascertained disbursements of the Quartermaster General's department ... 242

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• Pettit, Charles, arrangement of facts in relation to his claim ... 248
• Peyton, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Phelps, Bissell, report of committee against the claim of for advances and services in the army ... 654
• Phelps, Joel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 96, 172
• Phenix, Cornelius, claim of allowed ... 395
• Philips, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Philips, Noah, Ensign, half-pay not allowed to the representatives by the State of Connecticut ... 72
• Philips, Philo, claim of allowed ... 403
• Philips, Samuel, claim of for certain quartermaster general's certificates, inadmissible ... 176
• Phillips, George, claim of allowed ... 395
• Phillips, Henry, late a paymaster in the army, report of committee against releasing the sureties of ... 830
• Phinizy, Ferdinand, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Phinney, Ebenezer, claim of for an invalid pension ... 135
• Phisick, William, claim of allowed ... 393
• Piatt, John H., an army contractor, report of committee on the claim of for depreciation of money advanced to him; for loss by damages on bills protested in consequence of the failure of the Government to make the necessary advances to him, and for loss by the rise of provisions above his contract price ... 734

  Proceedings of the officers of the Treasury Department under an act for the relief of ... 780

  Statement of the accounts of with the United States ... 782, 791

  Construction given by committee to the act for the relief of ... 791, 894

  Report of a committee on the memorial of the representatives of, praying that an appropriation may be made for paying a balance found to be due to him on an examination of his accounts ... 894

  Memorial of the administrator of, praying the payment of said balance ... 898

  Statements of the accounts ... 903, 909

• Pickering, James, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Pier, Abner, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 110
• Pierce, Amos, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 138
• Pierce, Josiah, claim of allowed ... 390
• Pierce, Levi, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Pierce, Timothy, Lieutenant, claim of for seven years' half-pay allowed ... 388
• Pierson, Amos, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Pike, Zebulon, claim of allowed ... 394
• Pitman, John, claim of allowed ... 393
• Planters' Bank of New Orleans, report of committee in favor of the claim of for advances made for paying off certain discharged soldiers ... 816
• Poirey, Monsieur, report of the Secretary of War in favor of his claim for services as secretary and aid to General Lafayette ... 183

  Proceedings of Congress in relation to said claim ... 696

• Polhemus, Jacob, his claim for damage to his property during the war with Great Britain deemed inadmissible ... 180
• Polhemus, John, report of committee against allowing him arrears of pay, indemnity for advances, and commutation ... 651
• Pollard, Thomas, claim of for the renewal of certain certificates not allowed ... 258
• Pomeroy, Grove, report of committee against the claim of for certain lost certificates ... 216
• Pomeroy, Pliny, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Pomroy, Ralph M., report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for a house burnt by the soldiery ... 461, 613
• Poor, David, claim of allowed ... 401
• Poor, Morris, claim of allowed ... 398
• Popple, George, claim of for an invalid pension ... 91, 172
• Porter, Joel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Porter, John, Jr., claim of for a quartermaster's certificate inadmissible ... 178
• Porter, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Porter, Stephen, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of for supplies furnished the army and for house rent ... 76

  Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 76

• Porter, Stephen, amount of certificate issued to him ... 398
• Porter, William, claim of allowed ... 399
• Posey, Micajah, claim of allowed ... 396
• Postrider, relief granted to a, who was shot while carrying the mail through the Creek nation ... 322
• Post route from the city of Washington to New Orleans, claim of Isaac Briggs for exploring a ... 362

  Report of committee on said claim ... 544

• Potter, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 401
• Potter, Heman B., report of committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the British at Buffalo ... 814
• Potter, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 401
• Potter, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Powell, Michael, claim of allowed ... 402
• Powell, Stephen, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Powell, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 400
• Pratt, David, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Pratt, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Prescott, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Pressey, Benjamin, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 110
• Prest, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Preston, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 141
• Price, Bourne, claim of allowed ... 399
• Price, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 399
• Price, George, claim of allowed ... 389
• Price, James, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 177
• Price, James, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for a sum advanced by his late father to General Gates ... 673
• Prices at which certain loans were effected, report of a committee against allowing the amount of the difference between the, to a lender ... 771, 824
• Prichard, Jeremiah, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108
• Priest, Job, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 109
• Priestman, William, petition of, asking a day to show cause why he should be remitted of a forfeiture for an alleged violation of the revenue laws ... 286
• Prime, Nathaniel, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 180, 215
• Prince, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 393
• Pringle, Benjamin, claim of, for damage to his property by the military, not allowed ... 180

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• Prisoners, report of committee in favor of a claim for bounty on, captured by a private armed vessel ... 655

  Act of Congress allowing a bounty on, captured by private armed vessels of the United States ... 656

• Prisoners of war, resolves of Congress on the subject of making provision for American prisoners while in the possession of the enemy ... 805

  Report of committee against the claim of Joseph Sims for the transportation of certain ... 468

• Pritchard, Richard, claim of allowed ... 400
• Pritchard, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393
• Private claims, letter of the Secretary of the Treasury complaining of the reference of private claims to his department ... 77
• Prizemaster, report of committee against granting an increase of pension to the widow of a ... 447
• Prize money, report of committee against allowing the claim of N. Brown and others for ... 582, 679

  Report of committee in favor of allowing the claim of the widow of an army officer for ... 678

  Embezzled by the clerk of a district court of New York, report of a committee against granting indemnity for ... 679

  Report of committee against the claim of William Vaughan for ... 823

• Prizes, report of committee against the claim of Paul Coulon for indemnity for loss sustained by the alleged misconduct of the revenue officers in relation to two prizes brought into Wilmington, North Carolina, by a French privateer ... 251

  Report of committee against granting indemnity to P. Landais for prizes taken by him and afterwards restored by the Danish Government ... 346, 373

  Report of committee against indemnifying a marine officer for the loss of his portion of certain ... 675

• Proceedings of the accounting officers of the Treasury on certain claims not deemed valid, but presented pursuant to an act relative to claims against the United States not barred by acts of limitation and not already settled ... 172

  Of the commissioners appointed to ascertain the losses of officers and other citizens by the insurrection in Pennsylvania in 1794 ... 235

  Of the commissioners appointed under the act for the payment of claims for property destroyed by the enemy during the war with Great Britain ... 490

  Of the Supreme Court of judicature of New York, in relation to the claims of the representatives of Comfort Sands ... 670

  Of the officers of the Treasury Department on an act for the relief of John H. Piatt, an army contractor ... 780

• Proctor, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Projet of a treaty of peace, extracts from a, submitted by the American agents to the British commissioners at Ghent ... 530
• Property lost, captured, or destroyed in the service of the United States, and during the war with Great Britain, report of the Secretary of War recommending the forbearance of legislative interposition in certain claims for property used or destroyed by the army of the United States ... 55

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of William Dewees for property destroyed at Valley Forge by the enemy ... 74

  Report of committee against the claim of the heirs of said Dewees ... 751

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury recommending indemnity in all cases to religious or literary institutions for injury to their properly by the troops of the United States ... 198

  Report of committee against the claim of John Frothingham for property destroyed by the troops of the United States ... 199

  Report of committee against the claim of sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania for property destroyed by the militia in 1794 ... 218

  Report of committee against the claim of a collector of revenue for property destroyed by rioters ... 219

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against said claim ... 235

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on claims for property destroyed by rioters in 1794 ... 235

  Claim of Rebecca Hodgson for a house burnt while occupied as the War Department reported against ... 322, 425, 440

  Claim of sundry inhabitants of Knox county, in Kentucky, for property destroyed by the military, in 1801, allowed by a committee ... 360, 365

  Claim of Ezra Thurber for a house burnt while in the public service, reported against ... 370

  Claim of D. Bradley for a horse killed in the military service, reported against ... 371

  Claim of the inhabitants of Knox county, Indiana, for property destroyed by the military, report in favor of the ... 419

  Report against said claim ... 606

  Claims for the capture and destruction of certain wagons and teams at Detroit, reported against ... 422

  Claim of Kenzie and Forsythe for horses and mules lost in the military service, allowed ... 424

  Reports in favor of the claim of Bowie & Kurtz for a vessel lost while in public service ... 435, 476, 699

  Reports against said claim ... 500, 615

  Reports against the claim of Jos. Forrest for the loss of a vessel while in public employ ... 438, 527, 543

  Reports in favor of said claim ... 642, 875

  Claim of J. Chalmers for the destruction, by military order, of ropewalks, admitted ... 441

  Claim of Renner and Heath for property destroyed by the enemy, reported against ... 442, 502

  Report in favor of said claim ... 594

  Claims for horses lost in the expedition against Canada, and in the Creek campaign, report against ... 443

  Claim of J. Shinnick and others for destruction, by military order, of ropewalks, in 1814, report in favor of ... 444

  Claim of W. H. Washington for a house, destroyed by military order, report in favor of ... 446

  Claim of O'Neal & Taylor for a vessel lost in the flotilla service, report against ... 454

  Claim of R. M. Pomeroy for house and furniture burnt by the soldiers, report against ... 461, 613

  Claim of N. Boilvin for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 461

  Claim of Wm. Flood for property destroyed by the enemy, report in favor of ... 462

  Claim of J. and J. Crosby for wharf and storehouse lost by burning of the ship "Adams," reports in favor of ... 478, 498

  Message from the President of the United States, recommending a revision of the act authorizing indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy during the war with Great Britain ... 484

  Report of a committee reviewing said act ... 486

  Claim of Jas. Goddard, a collector of revenue, for a house and furniture burnt by the enemy, report against ... 489

  Classes of claims, and manner of establishing them, for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service ... 492

  Claim of L. Bezedone for the use and occupation, by a military force, of his property, report against ... 499

  Claim of the inhabitants of Buffalo and the Niagara frontier for property destroyed by the enemy, reports in favor of ... 507, 603

  Claim for property destroyed during the defence of New Orleans, reports in favor of ... 521, 522, 525, 553

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• Property lost, &c.

  Claim of Wm. Eadus for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 554

  Claim of M. Frazier for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 555

  Claim of P. Bryant for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 558

  Claim of T. E. and W. Stansbury for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 583

  Claim of M. Ball for property destroyed by the enemy, report in favor of ... 589

  Report of a committee recommending a discontinuance of the act providing for the payment of claims for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States ... 590

  Claim of T. Mayhew for a saw-mill and other property destroyed near New Orleans, report in favor of ... 592

  Claim of R. Frisby for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1814, reports against ... 597, 639

  Claim of M. Bower et al. for property destroyed by the army on Long Island, in 1776, report against ... 608

  Claim of S. F. Hooker for a vessel and cargo captured by the enemy, report against ... 609

  Claim of J. Parish for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1812, report against ... 610

  Claim of J. Van Tassell for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1779, report against ... 610

  Claim of J. Ward for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 654

  Claim of a purser in the navy for property destroyed by the enemy, report in favor of ... 655

  Claim of M. L. Woolsey for property destroyed by the United States troops, report against ... 663

  Claim of Caze and Richaud for property lost by the burning of a United States vessel, report against ... 665

  Claim of A. McCormick for property plundered by the enemy, in 1814, report against ... 668

  Claim of R. Sewall for a house burnt by the enemy, in 1814, report against ... 670

  Claim of E. Hart for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1813, report in favor of ... 672

  Report against said claim ... 680

  Claim of Vincent Grant for property destroyed by the enemy in 1813, report in favor of ... 674

  Rules and regulations in relation to the execution of the act providing for the payment of claims for property destroyed by the enemy ... 690

  Said act does not embrace the claims of officers of the regular army ... 691

  Claim of R. C. Lane for horses lost in the Seminole war, report against ... 694

  Claim of J. & H. H. Schieffelin for property sequestered by the British Government, report against ... 696, 861

  Claim of M. & S. Youngs for property destroyed during the Revolution, report against ... 703

  Claim of D. Goodwine for rent for property used by the Government, report against ... 704

  Claim of F. B. Longville for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report against ... 730

  Claim of A. Bronson for a vessel captured while in public employ, report against ... 732, 761

  Claim of R. P. Deslondes for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814--'15, report in favor of ... 752

  Claim of Joseph Janney for property destroyed by the enemy, report against ... 756

  Claim of P. D. De la Ronde for property destroyed by the United States troops in 1814--'15, report in favor of ... 759

  Claim of J. May for property damaged by the United States troops, report in favor of ... 769

  Claim of H. Catlett for a slave lost in public service, report against ... 776

  Claim of F. Coates for a horse lost in public service, report against ... 779

  Claim of Charles Douglass for property captured by the United States troops, report against ... 793

  Claim of Captain William Henderson for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814, report against ... 795

  Claim of Gideon Johnston for property destroyed during the Revolution, report against ... 801

  Claim of the Tennessee volunteers for horses and arms lost in the Seminole war, report against ... 806

  Claim of Alexander Mactier for a ship and cargo captured by the enemy in 1812, report against ... 814

  Claim of H. B. Potter for property destroyed by the enemy at Buffalo, report against ... 814

  Claim of the executor of A. Wright for property impressed into public service, report against ... 833

  Claim of J. De Villiers for property destroyed in the defence of New Orleans, report against ... 835

  Claim of Antoine Bienvenue for property destroyed in the defence of New Orleans, report against ... 836

  Claim of M. McKewan for a slave lost in public service, report against ... 837

  Claim of the heirs of Joseph Young for property destroyed by the enemy during the Revolution, report against ... 838

  Resolve of Congress providing for the payment for property taken for the use of the army of the United States ... 838

• Prout, Holden W., executor of J. W. Prout, report of committee against the claim of for money paid for the discharge of certain soldiers ... 881
• Provest, Robert, claim of allowed ... 388
• Pryor, John, claim of allowed ... 406
• Purcell, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Purdy, Edward, claim of allowed ... 390
• Purdy, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 391
• Purdy, Robert, Col., report of committee against granting him indemnity against certain judicial proceedings ... 586

  Report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to ... 874

• Purkill, Jacob, report of committee against the claim of for a slave impressed into the public service ... 668, 686
• Putnam, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 397
• Putnam, Nathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 87
• Putney, Asa, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Q.
• Quackenbush, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Quackenbush, Rindert, claim of for property destroyed, rejected ... 180
• Quackenbust, Walter, claim of allowed ... 400
• Quaco, Fortune, claim of allowed ... 396
• Quail, Charles, claim of allowed ... 402
• Quain, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Quarles, Robert, claim of allowed ... 401
• Quartermaster General's certificates. (See certificates.)
• Quartermaster General's Department, estimated amount of annual expenditure of the ... 242

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claims of Major General Greene and his assistants for their services in the ... 242

  Commissions allowed to the Quartermaster General and his assistants on expenditures ... 243, 246

  Resolves of Congress in relation to the organization of the ... 242, 243, 246

  Quartermaster General and his assistants to make weekly accounts of the sums they may receive from the paymasters to Congress ... 707

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• Quartermaster General's Department, resolve of Congress of 23d October, 1782, repealing the, as established by the resolutions of 15th July, 1780, from 1st January, 1783 ... 707

  Report of a committee investgating the accounts of a deputy quartermaster general ... 706, 707

  Quartermaster General to make monthly returns of all certificates issued by him ... 818

  His compensation and duties ... 818, 819

• Quick, Levi, claim of allowed ... 401
• R.
• Raggo, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 395
• Raines, R. Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Ralston, Margaret, report of committee against her claim for the wages of her late husband, an inspector of revenue, during his illness ... 308
• Ramsay, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• Randale, Archibald, claim of allowed ... 392
• Randolph, John F., report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for compensation for services in the Georgia militia against the Indians, in 1793 ... 226, 506

  Claim of considered as settled by the convention between the State of Georgia and the United States ... 289

• Ranny, David, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Ransom from Indian captivity, report of the Secretary of War in favor of reimbursing money paid by Samuel B. Turner, an ensign, for his ransom ... 54

  Of certain American citizens from Indian captivity, report of committee in favor of indemnifying Francis Duchouquet for money paid for the ... 256

  Report of committee against the claim of J. Gilham for expenses in ransoming his family from Indian captivity ... 313

  Of American prisoners at Algiers, report of the Secretary of State on the claim of W. &. H. Lewis for moneys deposited with the American consul, and appropriated by him for the ... 527

• Ransom, George P., claim of allowed ... 389
• Raypelya, Mary, report of committee in favor of the claim of the administrator of for the renewal of two loan office certificates ... 446
• Rappeto, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Ratcliff, Davis, claim of allowed ... 391
• Rathbon, John P., claim of allowed ... 398
• Rations and other supplies furnished to the army, reports of committee on the claim of J. H. Piatt for ... 734, 780, 894

  And hospital stores, claim of J. Hicks for, recommended to be rejected ... 592

  (Extra) report of committee in favor of the claim of a district paymaster for extra rations furnished to General Wilkinson ... 416

  (Retained) report of committee against the claim of H. Daggs for ... 417

• Ravenscroft, Joseph, claim of allowed 395
• Rayburn, William, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Raymon, William, claim of allowed ... 394
• Rea, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Read, George, report of committee against the claim of for a lost certificate ... 216
• Read, Robert, claim of allowed ... 402
• Recognizor, report of committee against releasing the surety of an absconding recognizor from the penalty of his bond ... 532
• Record of the judicial proceedings of a court on a suit for a violation of the sedition law ... 740
• Recruiting service, report of a committee against the claim of an officer for money lost while on the ... 461, 488
• Reddick, Henry, claim of allowed ... 389
• Redding, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Reed, Benjamin, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Reed, John, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108
• Reed, Ruth, report of committee in favor of allowing her a pension ... 675
• Rees, Griffith, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99, 172
• Reese, David, claim of allowed ... 394
• Refugees from Canada, report of committee in favor of granting relief to Abraham Markle and Gideon Frisbee ... 457

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of Samuel Thompson and John Dailey ... 502, 608

• Regan, Philip, statement of the amount of his losses by the riot in 1794 ... 237
• Reid, John, sergeant, claim of for his militia services ... 505
• Reid, Samuel C., and others, report of committee against the claim of for the loss of a private armed vessel ... 736
• Reid, Thaddeus, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112
• Reiley, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Religious institutions. (See Institutions.)
• Remission of duty, report of committee against allowing the claim of a distiller for a ... 222
• Renner and Heath, report of committee against allowing indemity to, for a rope-walk destroyed by the enemy in 1814 ... 442, 502
• Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 594
• Resolves of Congress. (See Congress.)
• Revenue laws. (See Information.)
• Revolutionary services, memorial of Thomas Paine, asking compensation for ... 357

  Report of a committee against said memorial ... 366

  Report of a committee in favor of the claim of Commodore Abraham Whipple for ... 381

  Report of a committee against the claim of John Mercereau for ... 695

  Report of a committee against the claim of J. B. Eldridge for ... 831

• Reynolds, Elisha, claim of for an invalid pension ... 92
• Reynolds, George, claim of allowed ... 396
• Reynolds, Henry, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate rejected ... 178
• Reynolds, Joshua, claim of allowed ... 397
• Reynolds, Solomon, claim of for an invalid pension ... 143
• Reynolds, Thomas, claim of allowed 405
• Reynolds, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Rhea, Aaron, claim of allowed ... 395
• Rhode Island College, report of a committee in favor of the claim of the corporation of for use of and injury done to their edifice by the troops of the United States ... 197

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of said claim ... 198

• Rhodes, Bristol, claim of allowed ... 393
• Rhodes, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
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• Rice, Charles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Rice, David, claim of allowed ... 389
• Rice, Edward, claim of allowed ... 390
• Rice, Elijah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Rice, James, claim of allowed ... 405
• Rice, Robert, claim of allowed ... 390
• Rice, William, report of committee against the claim of for a ship burnt by the British in 1814 ... 684
• Richard, Jeremiah, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 135
• Richards, Isaac, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 112, 154
• Richardson, James, claim of allowed ... 390
• Richardson, Owen, claim of allowed ... 397
• Richardson, Richard, claim of to an invalid pension ... 106, 165
• Richardson, Robert, claim of allowed ... 395
• Richardson, Turner, claim of allowed ... 391
• Richaud and Caze, report of committee in favor of the claim of, for property lost by the burning of the ship "Adams" ... 498

  Report of committee against said claim ... 665

  Opinion of the Attorney General on said claim ... 666

  Report of the Secretary of State on the claim of for a ship taken by the British after the treaty of peace ... 551

  Rickart, Thomas, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 172

• Ricker, Abraham, late Captain, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing the widow of, seven years' half-pay ... 71
• Ricker and Ward, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for the confiscation of their property at Santa Martha ... 472
• Rider, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Ridgeway, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Rieb, Peter, claim of allowed ... 403
• Rife, Conrad, claim of allowed ... 402
• Ringlespancer, Henry, claim of allowed ... 387
• Ringgold, Tench, & Co., claim of not within the act providing for the payment of claims for property destroyed by the enemy ... 486
• Riot, report of committee against indemnifying a collector of revenue for loss of property by ... 219
• Ripley, John, clerk, claim of for further compensation, report of committee against ... 79
• Risdale, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Roach, Robert, claim of allowed ... 398
• Robbins, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Robbins, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Roberts, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 400
• Roberts, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Roberts, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 86
• Roberts, Owen, report of the Secretary of War allowing seven years' half--pay to the widow of ... 25

  Amount of certificate issued to him ... 387

• Roberts, Ruth, report of the Secretary of War against allowing her a pension ... 5
• Robinson, George, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• Robinson, Hugh, claim of allowed ... 394
• Robinson, James, claim of allowed ... 392, 398
• Robinson, Paul, a teamster, report of committee in favor of allowing him indemnity for certain damages awarded against him ... 523
• Robinson, Quaco, claim of allowed ... 396
• Robinson, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Robinson, William, report of committee in favor of the claim of for property destroyed by the troops of the United States in 1799 ... 361
• Roche, Thomas, report of committee in favor of allowing him arrears of pay ... 199
• Rockwell, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 394
• Rodford, William, claim of allowed ... 388
• Rogers, Charles P., claim of for a quartermaster's certificate rejected ... 177
• Rogers, Hezekiah, late Major, report of committee against granting a pension to his widow ... 769
• Rogers, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 399
• Rogers, James, claim of allowed ... 403
• Rogers, John, claim of to an invalid pension ... 126
• Rogers, John, report of committee against the claim of for loss incurred by attending as a witness at the impeachment of W. Blount ... 221
• Rogers, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Rogers, William S., a purser in the navy, report of committee against allowing him indemnity for a sum of money lost ... 453
• Room, Cato, claim of allowed ... 397
• Ronde, Pierre Dennis de la, report of committee allowing in part the claim of for property destroyed in 1814--'15 ... 759
• Rope--walks, report of committee allowing indemnity to J. Chalmers, for the destruction of by military order ... 441

  Report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to J. Shinnick, for the destruction of by military order ... 444

  Report of committee against granting indemnity to Heath and Renner for the destruction of by the enemy in 1814 ... 442, 502

  Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 594

• Rose, Richard, claim of allowed ... 395
• Ross, Charles, claim of allowed ... 400
• Ross, James, claim of allowed ... 405
• Roseter, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Roundy, Luke, Ensign, seven years' half--pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Rowell, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 404
• Roxburg, Alexander, report of committee against the claim of for a lost certificate ... 216, 241
• Roye, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 401
• Royer, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Rozer, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Rudd, Theron, clerk of a court, report of committee disclosing the embezzlement of certain moneys by him ... 587
• Ruggles, Lazarus, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89
• Rules and regulations for substantiating claims for pensions 683--'84

  In relation to the execution of the act providing for the payment of claims for property destroyed by the British ... 690--'94

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• Rumble, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 401
• Rush, Jacob, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of granting him a renewal of his certificates lost by accident ... 52
• Rushworm, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Russell, John, claim of allowed ... 401
• Russell, Joseph, jun., claim of for certain certificates, rejected ... 179
• Russell, Thomas, claim of for certain quartermaster's certificates, rejected ... 179, 180
• Ryan, Jeremiah, report of Secretary of War in favor of allowing him a pension ... 8
• Ryan, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Ryan, Owen, claim of allowed ... 398
• Ryland, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• S.
• Sabin, Elisha, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116, 141
• Sabines, Caesar, claim of allowed ... 403
• Sadler, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Safford, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 398
• Sage, Amos, claim of allowed ... 395
• Salters, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 402
• Salstonstall, Britton, claim of allowed ... 393
• Saltworks on the Wabash, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petition of the lessee of the, for relief from loss by the inundation of the Ohio ... 533
• Sammons, Patrick, claim of allowed ... 392
• Sampson, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 404
• Samson, John, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Sanders, Nicholas, claim of allowed ... 399
• Sanders, Robert, report of committee against his claim for indemnity for the loss of his barn by the carelessness of a public agent ... 259
• Sanderson, Moses, claim of for a penson ... 155
• Sands, Comfort, and others, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of for damages for a breach of contract ... 27, 263

  Claim of recommended to a judicial decision by a committee ... 50

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of ... 272, 595

  Report of a committee recommending a reduction of the amount of damages heretofore allowed to the representatives of ... 669

  Claim of recommended to an arbitration ... 669

  Report of committee against the claim of the assignees of ... 708

  Award of the referees appointed by resolve of Congress on the claim of the assignees of ... 725

  Report of committee recommending the confirmation of the award of said referees on the claim of the assignees of ... 725

• Sargent, Winthrop, Secretary of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of, for compensation for performing the duties of Governor of said Territory ... 74
• Sarpy, Gregoria, report of committee against his claim for indemnity for the interruption of an exclusive right granted to him by the Spanish Government to trade with the Osage Indians ... 432
• Satchell, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 391
• Satterfield, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Satterwhite, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Sawers, William, claim of allowed ... 401
• Sawyer, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89, 165
• Sawyers, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 106, 165
• Sayre, Stephen, report of Secretary of State on the claim of for diplomatic services ... 81

  Report of committee in favor of the claim of ... 123

  Report of committee granting him leave to withdraw his petition and papers ... 223

• Scarborough, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Schafer, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Schafer, Peter, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Schell, Johannes, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Schenck & Gelston, report of committee allowing them indemnity against a judgment obtained against them for the seizure of a ship by direction of the President of the United States ... 601
• Schenck, Peter A., claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, rejected ... 178
• Schieffelin, Jacob and Henry H., report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for property sequestered by the British Government ... 696, 861
• School, report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of the claim of the trustees of a, in Wilmington, Delaware, for the use and occupation thereof by the troops of the United States ... 198
• Schoolfield, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Schoonmaker, Zachariah, an army paymaster, report of committee against the claim of for money lost by him ... 458
• Schovell, Jonah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Schreinmacker, Francis, claim of allowed ... 389
• Schuyler, Peter P., report of committee against the claim of for money lost when on the recruiting service ... 461
• Schweighauser, John D., report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of the representatives of, for advances made on the frigate Alliance in 1780 ... 342
• Scott, Alexander, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for Indian depredations ... 309

  Report of a committee in favor of said claim ... 379

• Scott, Amasa, claim of for an invalid pension ... 151
• Scott, George, claim of allowed ... 401
• Scott, James, claim of allowed ... 392
• Scott, John B., claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, rejected ... 177
• Scott, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 388, 395
• Scott, Littlebury, claim of allowed ... 392
• Scott, William, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144
• Scott, William, private claim of allowed ... 400, 403
• Scotten, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 397
• Scribner, Nathaniel, Captain, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116, 167
• Scudder, William S., claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Sea--letter, report of the Secretary of State against the claim of W. Wilson and others, for the loss of a vessel captured for want of a ... 284
• Sears, Stephen, claim of for an army certificate, rejected ... 178
• Sea--stores, report of committee in favor of the claim of Com. R. Dale for, while in command of the ship Ganges ... 424

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• Seayres, John, Lieut. Col., seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Seaver, Peter, claim of allowed ... 395
• Securities, or debt of the United States, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against liquidating balances against public officers with ... 7
• Sedition law, report of committee in favor of refunding certain penalties and costs of suit incurred by a violation of the ... 737

  Record of the proceedings of a court on a suit for the violation of the ... 738

• See, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Seeley, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Segern, Frederick, claim of allowed ... 400
• Self, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393
• Sellers, Frederick, claim of allowed ... 402
• Seminole war, report of committee against granting indemnity for horses and arms lost in the ... 806

  Return of the horses lost in the ... 811

• Sequestration, report of committee in favor of granting indemnity to William Haslett for a ship yielded up to save American property from, by the Dey of Algiers ... 484

  Of property by the British Government after the declaration of war, report of committee against granting indemnity for ... 696, 861

  (See Confiscation.)

• Serjeant, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 120
• Service, military and naval, report of committee against repealing the act providing for certain persons engaged in the, during the Revolution ... 682
• Sevier, Alexander, Captain, report of committee against the claim of for money lost in public service ... 437
• Sewall, Robert, report of committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the enemy in 1814 ... 670
• Sewell, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 163
• Sexton, George, claim of allowed ... 398
• Sexton, Richard, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for losses on a contract for erecting piers in the river Delaware ... 313
• Shade, Henry, claim of allowed ... 397
• Shanley, Patrick, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 110
• Sharp, James, estate of, claim of the for horses lost in public service, rejected ... 181
• Shartel, Jacob, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 101

  Shattuck, Jared, report of the Secretary of State in favor of the claim of for indemnity for the illegal capture and loss of a vessel and cargo by a naval officer ... 332

  Report of a committee in favor of said claim ... 358, 418

• Shaver, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 399
• Shaw, Basil, report of committee against the claim of for a slave lost in the military service ... 548

  Report of committee against said claim ... 679

• Shaw, John C., claim of for certain army certificates, rejected ... 177
• Shaw, Samuel, Lieut. claim of for an invalid pension ... 145, 172
• Shaw, Sylvanus, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Shean, Timothy, claim of allowed ... 404
• Shearman, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 391
• Sheldon, Joseph, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Shepeard, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Shepherd, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Shepherd, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 172
• Sheppard, Henry, claim of allowed ... 397
• Shepperd, William, clerk, report of a committee in favor of allowing him extra compensation for doing duty while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Sherburn, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 404
• Sherden, Edward, claim of allowed ... 395
• Sherlock, Adiel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Sherlock, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Sherman, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 397
• Sherman, Lemuel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Shields, Berry, claim of allowed ... 405
• Shields, James, claim of barred by statute of limitation, while absent from the United States ... 49
• Shields, Thomas, a purser in the navy, report of a committee against the claim of for his naval services ... 650

  Report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to him for stores and other property destroyed by the enemy ... 655

  Report of a committee against the claim of ... 665

• Shine, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Shinnick, J. and others, report of a committee in favor of granting indemnity to for destruction of their ropewalks by military order ... 444
• Shirtnursey, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Shitger, Stophel, claim of allowed ... 393
• Short, Peyton, report of a committee allowing him further credits after a judgment at law ... 524
• Shortridge, Benjamin, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Shover, George, report of a committee allowing bounty land and balance of pay ... 607
• Shubrick, Richard, late captain, claim of his children to seven years' half-pay admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30
• Shumway, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Sibbey, William, claim of allowed ... 396
• Sibley, John, claim of allowed ... 396
• Silcock, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Simmons, Stephen G., claim of for loss on the value of a horse, report adverse ... 248
• Simond, Aaron, claim of allowed ... 398
• Simonds, Daniel, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Simons, James, claim of allowed ... 389
• Simpson, James, claim of allowed ... 400
• Simpson, Thomas, report of the Secretary of War against his claim for an increase of pension ... 18
• Simpson, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 127
• Simms, Edward, claim of allowed ... 404
• Sims, Joseph, amount of certificate issued to him ... 404
• Sims, Joseph, report of a committee against the claim of for the transportation of prisoners of war ... 468
• Sims, William, claim of allowed ... 389
• Sing, Aquila, claim of allowed ... 393
• Singletary, George, claim of allowed ... 398
• Singletary, Ithamar, claim of for an invalid pension ... 171
• Singletary, Joseph, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 106
• Singletary, Joseph, Jr., private, claim of for an invalid pension ... 171

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• Sisk, James, claim of allowed ... 388
• Sisson, Robert, claim of allowed ... 405
• Skillings, John, Captain, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Skinner, Henry, his claim barred by statute of limitation, while absent from the United States ... 49
• Skipwith, Fulwar, report of the Secretary of State on the claim of for reimbursement of certain moneys advanced by him while consul general at Paris ... 268
• Slape, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 401
• Slater, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Slaves, report of committee against indemnifying the owners of for their removal by the British ... 531

  Captured from a British privateer, report of a committee in favor of allowing a bounty on certain ... 655, 757

  Report of a committee against the claim of B. Shaw for a slave killed in the military service ... 679

  Report of a committee against the claim of H. Catlett for a slave killed in the military service ... 776

• Sled, Seaton, claim of allowed ... 401
• Sloan, Bryant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 106
• Sloan, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 94
• Smart, Elijah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Smart, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 393
• Smart, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Smiley & Kinsey, report of a committee against releasing them from the penalties of their bonds as sureties of an army paymaster ... 830
• Smith, Ambrose, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Smith, Ashabel, report of a committee against the claim of for materials, &c., furnished for the erection of barracks ... 839
• Smith, Charles, claim of allowed ... 402
• Smith, Christopher, claim of allowed ... 390
• Smith, Daniel, claim of for indemnity for loss by Indian depredations, report against the ... 222
• Smith, Daniel, amount of certificate issued to him ... 390
• Smith & Davis, claim of for horses lost, and for horse-hire allowed ... 400
• Smith, Edward, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88, 172
• Smith, Edward, executor of Philip Bush, report of a committee against the claim of for supplies furnished the army in the Revolution ... 687
• Smith, Ezra, report of the Secretary of War in favor of allowing him an invalid pension, on his returning his commutation of half-pay ... 6
• Smith, Heber, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116, 167
• Smith, Hugh, claim of allowed ... 398
• Smith, James, his claim to an invalid pension ... 164, 193, 197
• Smith, Jedediah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 66, 90, 116
• Smith, Jesse, claim of allowed ... 402
• Smith, John, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Smith, John, private, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 88, 112
• Smith, John, sergeant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 388, 391, 392, 394, 396, 398, 404
• Smith, Jonathan S., report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for indemnity for a quantity of coffee confiscated by the Dey of Algiers ... 435

  Report of a committee against said claim ... 514, 853

• Smith, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 395, 397
• Smith, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 393, 397
• Smith, Moses, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Smith, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 392
• Smith, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 151
• Smith, Sarah, widow of Frs. N. Smith, report of a committee on her claim for a pension ... 593
• Smith, Stephen, claim of allowed ... 404
• Smith, Thomas, claim of for certain tax-notes rejected ... 181
• Smith, Thomas, amount of certificate issued to him ... 401, 403, 405
• Smith, William, claim of for the renewal of certain loan office certificates, rejected ... 179, 258

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the claim of ... 464

• Smith, William, amount of certificate issued to him ... 393, 400
• Smith, William, jun., and others, report of a committee against discharging from the payment of a judgment obtained against him as surety for a navy agent ... 696
• Snagg, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126
• Snell, Job, claim of for an invalid pension ... 91, 172
• Snelson, Charles, claim of allowed ... 405
• Snelson, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Snow, Amos, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Snow, Lemuel, report of a committee in favor of the claim of for arrears of pay ... 199
• Snowden, Jonathan, report of a committee against allowing him to retain money advanced to him as arrears of pension not due ... 334
• Sollars, John, claim of allowed ... 394
• Souls, Gideon, claim of allowed ... 393
• South Carolina line. (See Officers.)
• Southard, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Spalding, Josiah, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 153
• Spaul, William, claim of allowed ... 398
• Spaulding, Ezekiel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 86
• Speake, George, claim of allowed ... 391
• Spear, David, claim of for certain new emission bills, rejected ... 179
• Spears, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Speed, James, Lieutenant, claim of for an invalid pension ... 171
• Spencer, Ichabod, claim of allowed ... 393
• Spencer, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Speyer, John, claim of for a deputy quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 179
• Spicer, Abel, claim of allowed ... 391
• Spoliations committed on the inhabitants of the Michigan Territory in consequence of the surrender of said Territory to the enemy, report of the Secretary of State on the subject of ... 529

  Committed on the Niagara frontier by the enemy during the war with Great Britain, report of a committee in favor of allowing a private compensation to claimants for ... 603

• Sponseler, Frederick, claim of allowed ... 405
• Spragues, Cæsar, claim of for an invalid pension ... 110
• Springer, Abraham, his claim barred by statute of limitation while absent from the United States ... 49
• Springer, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 387
• Squires, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 393
• Staats, Barent I., claim of for a certain note of hand, rejected ... 178

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• Stack, Richard, claim of for an invalid pension ... 128
• Stafford, James, claim of allowed ... 398
• Stafford, Joab, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95

  Report of a committee against the claim of for arrears of pay ... 146

• Stagg, John, jun., claim of allowed ... 404
• Stake, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 398
• Stanford, Zachariah, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 65, 116
• Stansbury, Jonas, claim of for a deputy quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 178
• Stansbury, T. E., and Wm., report of a committee against the claim of for property destroyed by the enemy, in 1814 ... 583
• Staples, John, report of a committee against the claim of for military services in the Revolution ... 609
• Starbord, Anthony, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Stark, John, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144
• Starr, Thomas, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 90
• Start, Moses, claim of allowed ... 404
• State Legislatures ought not to be supported in deciding on claims against the United States ... 29
• State troops, raised and employed by a State, not entitled to commutation of half-pay ... 22
• St. Clair, Arthur, report of a committee in favor of his claim for wages, and expenses incurred in negotiating an Indian treaty ... 73, 80

  Report of a committee against the claim of for advances made during the Revolution ... 375

• Steed, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Steel, Aaron, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Steel, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Steel, John, claim of allowed ... 389
• Steger, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Steger, Miranda, claim of for the services of her late husband during the Revolution ... 175, 181
• Stephens, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Stephens, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 397
• Steptoe, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 394
• Stern, David, claim of allowed ... 391
• Stetson, Amasa, a deputy commissary of purchases, report of a committee against the claim of for interest on advances and disbursements made, and for extra services ... 886
• Stetson, Ebenezer, report of a committee against the claim of for a pension ... 182
• Steuben, Baron de, report of a committee in favor of indemnifying him for sacrifices made by him in the American cause ... 11
• Stevens, Ebenezer, and others, assignees of Comfort Sands, report of committee in favor of granting them indemnity for a breach of contract ... 595

  Report of committee on a bill for the relief of ... 669

  Proceedings of the Supreme Court of judicature of New York in relation to the claim of ... 670

  Report of a committee against granting them indemnity for damages for breach of contract ... 708

  Report of referees appointed by resolve of Congress on the claim of ... 725

  Report of committee recommending the confirmation of the award of said referees ... 725

  (See Comfort Sands and others.)

• Stevens, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Stevens, Nathaniel, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 167
• Stevens, Roger, claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Stevenson, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Stewart, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 397
• Stewart, Allan, Lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Stewart, Archibald, claim of allowed ... 388
• Stewart, D., Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Stewart, Findley, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95, 165
• Stewart, James, claim of allowed ... 395
• Stewart, Richard, claim of allowed ... 396
• Stiles, John S., report of committee in favor of the claim of, for indemnity for vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore ... 892
• Still tax, report of committee against allowing a claim for a remission of the ... 222
• Stiller, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• St. Medard, Peter, claim of allowed ... 395
• Stock, report of committee against the claim of J. Barker for, to the amount of the difference between the prices at which certain loans were effected under the act of March, 1814 ... 771, 824
• Stocker, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 137
• Stockton, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 393
• Stockton, Robert F., a navy officer, report of committee against the claim of, for indemnity against certain judicial proceedings ... 890
• Stoddart, Josiah, Captain, half-pay not allowed to the representatives of, by the State of Connecticut ... 72
• Stoddart, Nathan, Captain, half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Stokes, William B., report of committee against the claim of, for a house burnt by the enemy in 1813 ... 526
• Stone, Daniel, executor of A. Wright, report of committee against the claim of, for a wagon and team impressed into public service ... 833
• Stone, J. H., late Colonel, report of committee against the claim of the representatives of, for commutation due to him ... 643
• Stone, Reuben, claim of allowed ... 399
• Stoops, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 395
• Storer and Easton, report of committee against the claim of, for commutation and bounty land ... 847
• Storer, James, claim of allowed ... 390
• Storms, Abraham, claim of, for damage to his property by the army of the United States, rejected ... 180
• Stouffer, Henry, claim of allowed ... 397
• Strawn, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Strengthfield, Edward, claim of allowed ... 389
• Streshley, Thomas, report of committee against the claim of, to be discharged from a judgment obtained against him while a collector ... 313
• Stretch, Joseph, clerk, report of committee in favor of allowing him further compensation for his services while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Stringer, Fortunatus, claim of allowed ... 404
• Strong, Nathan, claim of, for certain loan office certificates, rejected ... 179
• Strother, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Stroud, John, claim of allowed ... 398
• Stroud, John, Lieutenant, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Sturges, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid pension ... 154
• Sturges, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 389
• Sudley, Emery, jun., and wife, report of committee against the claim of for certificates lost or destroyed ... 241

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• Sullivan, Matthew, claim of allowed ... 402
• Summons, Andrew, jun., claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, inadmissible ... 177
• Supernumerary officers. (See Officers.)
• Supplies furnished the United States troops in 1814, claim of M. Dubbs for, rejected ... 556

  Furnished to a company of volunteers, report of committee against the claim of J. Cowan for ... 582

  Report of committee against the claim of the executors of Philip Bush for ... 687

  Report of committee on the claim of J. H. Piatt, for supplies furnished to the army ... 734, 791, 894

  Furnished to the army, report of committee in favor of the claim of P. Babcock for ... 760

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the proceedings of the officers of the Treasury Department under an act providing for the payment of claims for ... 780

  Furnished to the army during the Revolution, report of committee against the claim of J. B. Eldridge for ... 831

• Supreme Court, opinion and decree of the, in the case of Malay vs. Shattuck, and Shattuck vs. Malay, for the illegal capture and loss of a vessel and cargo ... 359
• Sureties of a collector of internal revenues, report of committee against discharging from responsibility the ... 420

  Report of committee in favor of releasing the surety of a recognizor ... 532

  Report of committee against releasing the surety of a defaulting postmaster ... 534, 795

  Report of committee against releasing the sureties of an insolvent paymaster of the army ... 830

  Report of committee against releasing the surety of a navy agent from a judgment against him ... 696

• Surviving officers of the Revolution. See Officers.
• Suspended items in the account of a recruiting officer, report of committee in favor of allowing certain ... 668
• Sutton, Abraham, report of committee in favor of allowing him arrears of pay ... 199
• Savage, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 405
• Swain, David, claim of allowed ... 396
• Swain, James, claim of allowed ... 388
• Swain, Zaccheus, claim of allowed ... 398, 404
• Swaine, James, seaman, his claim barred by act of limitation while absent from the United States ... 49
• Swan, James, agreement of with the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to him certain bills of exchange ... 270
• Swan, Nathaniel, claim of allowed ... 391
• Swancoat, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 393
• Swanton. Peter, claim of allowed ... 404
• Swartwout, Robert, a quartermaster general in the army, report of committee in favor of allowing him indemnity against certain judicial proceeding ... 649

  Reports of committee against said claim ... 731

• Sweeny, Owen, claim of allowed ... 404
• Swift, Charles, report of committee against allowing his claim for bounty land ... 832
• Swift, Robert, claim of allowed ... 395
• Sybert, alias Syfat, Adam, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• Sydleman, John, claim of allowed ... 391
• Symms, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 85
• T.
• Tabor, Henry, claim of allowed ... 403
• Taggart, William, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 161
• Taggert, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Talbot, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 400
• Talmadge, Benjamin, claim of for certain loan office certificates, rejected ... 179
• Tanner, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 391
• Tanny, Michael, claim of allowed ... 402
• Tapperwine, Christain, claim of allowed ... 404
• Tarr, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Taxes, (continental,) further allowance to receivers of admitted by the Secretary of the Treasury ... 32
• Taylor, Charles, claim of allowed ... 403
• Taylor, Eliphalet, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Taylor, John, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111, 162
• Taylor, John, amount of certificate issued to him ... 396
• Taylor, John M., claim of for a deputy quartermaster's certificate, rejected ... 178, 179, 181
• Taylor, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 405
• Taylor, Joseph Spence, claim of for an invalid pension ... 118
• Taylor & McNeal, report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for sundry scows sunk for the defence of Baltimore ... 466
• Taylor & O'Neal, report of committee against the claim of for a vessel lost in the flotilla service ... 454
• Taylor, Richard, report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting him an increase of pension ... 310
• Taylor, Samuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 169
• Taylor, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397, 401
• Taylor, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Tazewell, William, report of committee in favor of the claim of for diplomatic expenses ... 239
• Tellier & Biddle, claim of allowed ... 396
• Temple, Abraham, claim of allowed ... 398
• Templeman, John, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 176
• Tenlison, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
• Tennessee, memorial of the Legislature of for horses and arms lost by the volunteers of said State in the Seminole war, report of committee against the ... 806
• Tennessee Volunteers, report of committee against the claim of the for horses and arms lost in the Seminole war ... 732, 806
• Terril, James, claim of allowed ... 390
• Territory northwest of the Ohio, the pay of the Governor and Secretary of the late continued until superseded by State appointments ... 311
• Testimony by which the United States was defeated in a suit against a defaulting paymaster, investigation of the ... 866

  For invalid pensions, opinion of the Attorney General as to the time of completing the ... 893

• Thaxter, A. W., claim of allowed ... 389
• Thayer, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Thomas, James, claim of allowed ... 405
• Thomas, James, a deputy quartermaster general, report of a committee on the state of the accounts of ... 480

  Opinion of the Attorney General on the accounts of ... 649

• Thomas, John, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Thomas John, late General, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Thomas, John A., report of a committee against the claim of for indemnity for the loss of money stolen from him on the recruiting service ... 488

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• Thomas, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 390
• Thomas, Joseph, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Thomas, Peter, claim of allowed ... 405
• Thomas, Philip, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Thompson, Benjamin, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 86
• Thompson, Benjamin, Major, claim of allowed ... 392
• Thompson and Dailey, Canadian refugees, report of committee in favor of granting relief to ... 502, 608
• Thompson, Daniel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 142
• Thompson, James, claim of allowed ... 392
• Thompson, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Thompson, John, report of committee against the claim of for military services and expenditures ... 371
• Thompson, John, report of committee against allowing him interest withheld from him in settling his accounts ... 423
• Thompson, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 390
• Thompson, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 399
• Thompson, William, report of committee in favor of the claim of for a pension ... 835
• Thompson, John, clerk, report of committee allowing him further compensation for doing duty while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Thorne, William, claim of for damages done to his farm by the United States troops, rejected ... 180
• Thornhill, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 394
• Thumb, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Thurber, Ezra, report of committee against the claim of for a house burnt while in public service ... 370
• Tilden, Charles, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Tillen, Henry, claim of allowed ... 388
• Tilley, Aaron, claim of allowed ... 405
• Tilley, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 399
• Tilley, Walter, claim of allowed ... 399
• Tillien, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 100
• Tilton, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Tilton, Sylvester, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 67, 121
• Tinkham, Ebenezer, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Tinley, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Tinney, James, claim of allowed ... 402
• Tinney, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Tissue, William, claim of allowed ... 405
• Title, report of committee against allowing indemnity to a purchaser for a defective title to a lot sold for the benefit of the United States ... 678
• Todd, Richard, claim of allowed ... 393
• Todd, Yale, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 113
• Tomlin, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Tomlinson, Jabez, claim of for an invalid pension ... 89
• Tompkins, Charles, report of committee in favor of allowing him further compensation for doing duty while the yellow fever was in Philadelphia ... 79
• Tompkins, Daniel D., report of committee in favor of providing by law for the payment of the claims of for interest on advances, commissions on disbursements, and indemnity for losses sustained by the failure of Government to fulfil its engagements ... 884
• Toms, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Tonin, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 104
• Torrence, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 120, 155
• Touch, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 391
• Tousiger, Peter, claim of allowed ... 401
• Tower, Benjamin, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Town, Ebenezer, Ensign, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Transportation of prisoners of war, report of a committee against a claim for ... 468
• Traverse, Sylvanus, claim of allowed ... 394
• Tray, Elijah, report of his monthly allowance and arrears due on his pension ... 62, 120
• Treaty of peace, instructions to the American commissioners appointed to negotiate a, with Great Britain ... 530

  Extract from the projet of a, submitted to the British commissioners at Ghent ... 530

• Treasury Department, proceedings of the officers of the, under an act for the relief of an army contractor ... 780
• Triglohan, Philip, claim of allowed ... 389
• Trisbie, Jonah, claim of allowed ... 401
• Trowbridge, Caleb, claim of allowed ... 398
• Tucker, Daniel, claim of the estate of, for his services as an assistant deputy quartermaster, rejected ... 175, 181
• Tucker, Samuel, report of committee in favor of allowing his claim for arrears of pay ... 760
• Turner, Anne, report of committee against the claim of for commutation as heir of Colonel J. H. Stone ... 643
• Turner, Edward, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Turner, Enoch, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 113, 153
• Turner, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 145
• Turner, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 398
• Turner, Philip, claim of allowed ... 394
• Turner, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
• Turner, Samuel B., late Ensign, report of the Secretary of War in favor of granting him his ransom paid by him when a prisoner to the Indians ... 54
• Turney, Asa, a teamster, report of committee against allowing him arrears of pay and a pension ... 640
• Turney, Toney, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 115
• Tuthill, David, claim of allowed ... 390
• Tuttle, Aaron, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Tyler, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 394
• U.
• Uncas, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 391
• Underwood, Robert, claim of for a deputy quartermaster's certificate, rejected ... 177, 178
• Underwood, Thomas, report of committee against the claim of for lost certificates ... 216
• Unsettled claims, for property captured or destroyed by the British forces, not acted on by the commissioners, recommended by committee to be transferred for adjudication to the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury ... 590
• Updike, Caesar, claim of allowed ... 403
• Upshaw, William, claim of allowed ... 392
• Upson, Noah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 143
• Utt, Elias, claim of for an invalid pension ... 103
• Utter, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 126

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• V.
• Vail, Daniel, claim of allowed ... 400
• Valentine, Jacob, Captain, claim of for an invalid pension ... 122
• Valenzin, David, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for the illegal seizure of his vessel by certain armed vessels of the United States ... 288

  Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 292

• Van, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Van Antwerp, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Van Buskirk, Jacobus, claim of for damage done to his property by the troops of the United States, rejected ... 180
• Van Epps, Evert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 145
• Van Gordon, Jeremiah, claim of allowed ... 392
• Van Kleek, Michael, report of the Secretary of War against allowing him arrears of pay ... 194
• Van Sickle, Daniel, claim of for damage done to his farm by the troops of the United States, rejected ... 180
• Van Tassell, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy in 1779 ... 610
• Varnum, Cato, claim of allowed ... 403
• Varnum, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Vaughan, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 145, 172
• Vaughan, John, report of committee in favor of granting him indemnity for loss of bullion deposited for coinage in the United States mint ... 219
• Vaughan, William, report of committee in favor of the claim of for prize money for capturing a gunboat and burning a vessel of war belonging to the enemy ... 823
• Vaughn, Prince, claim of allowed ... 403
• Vessels, report of committee against the claim of David Valenzin for the illegal seizure of his vessel by certain armed vessels of the United States ... 288

  Report of committee in favor of said claim ... 292

  Report of committee on the claim of Daniel Cotton for indemnity for a vessel impressed by the Bey of Tunis, while chartered to a Government agent ... 322

  Report of the Secretary of State on the claim of Jared Shattuck for the illegal capture of his vessel by a naval officer ... 332

  Report of committees on said claim ... 358, 418

  Reports of committee in favor of the claim of Bowie & Kurtz for the loss of a ship impressed by the Dey of Algiers, while employed in the service of the Government ... 435, 476, 699

  Reports of committee against said claim ... 500, 615

  Reports of committee against the claim of Joseph Forrest for the loss of a ship, while chartered by the United States ... 438, 527, 543

  Report of the Secretary of State on said claim ... 528

  Reports of committee in favor of said claim ... 642, 875

  Report of the Secretary of State on the claim of Gelston & Schenck for indemnity against a judgment obtained against them for the seizure by order of Government of a vessel ... 475

  Report of committee on the claim of William Haslett for indemnity for a vessel, yielded up at the instance of the American consul at Tunis to save American property from sequestration by the Bey ... 484

  Report of committee against the claim of Garrow & Wilson for indemnity for a vessel captured by the enemy while employed in transporting the troops of the United States ... 596

  Sunk for the defence of Baltimore, report of committee in favor of allowing indemnity for ... 741

  Report of committee in favor of allowing indemnity to J. Stiles for certain ... 892

  (See further, Indemnity.)

• Vickers, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Viennes, M. de, report of committee in favor of his claim for revolutionary services ... 614
• Villard, Andrew Joseph, report of committee in favor of granting him a reward for his invention of a new method of mounting guns on fortifications ... 320

  Report of committee against his claim for property destroyed in 1814 ... 537

• Villeré, James, General, report of committee in favor of allowing him indemnity for property destroyed by British and American forces near New Orleans ... 525

  Report of committee against indemnifying him for slaves taken by the British ... 531

• Villiers, Jumonville de, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for losses by the enemy in the late war ... 461

  Report of committee allowing him indemnity for injury to his plantation by the troops of the United States ... 521

  Report of committee against the claim of for property destroyed during the defence of New Orleans ... 835

• Vinial, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 390
• Virgill, Asa, claim of for an invalid pension ... 157
• Virginia, report of a committee on several resolutions of Virginia on the claims of sundry individuals of the revolutionary army for pay, depreciation, pensions, &c., adverse ... 29

  Report of committee against allowing the claims of for militia services ... 426

  Statement of claims exhibited by the State of, which have been disallowed at the Accountant's office ... 427, 430

• Voorhies, Minne L., claim of for an invalid pension ... 166
• Vose, Edward, report of his monthly allowance, and arrearages due on his pension ... 60, 118, 152
• Vouchers lost, report of committee in favor of allowing credit to an army officer in his accounts for certain vouchers lost by him ... 598

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against crediting Captain F. Brown for in his accounts ... 639

  Report of committee against allowing credit to Archibald F. McNeill, a colonel in the army, in his accounts for ... 880

• W.
• Wade, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 396
• Wade, James, claim of allowed ... 404
• Wade & O'Bryan, loan officers for the State of Georgia ... 466
• Wade, Zebulon, report of committee against allowing him a pension, and expenses of a wound received in the naval service ... 381
• Wadsworth, Eden, claim of allowed ... 390
• Wafford, Absalom, claim of allowed ... 406
• Wafford, William, claim of allowed ... 406
• Waggerman, Emanuel, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Wagons and teams captured or destroyed by the enemy at Detroit, report of committee disagreeing to the bill from the Senate granting indemnity for ... 422
• Wait, Joseph, Lieut. Col., seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
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• Wakefield Harvey, a custom-house officer, report of committee in favor of the claim of for expenses and loss of time when prisoner to the Indians ... 638
• Walderam, John, claim of for damage to his farm by the troops of the United States, inadmissible ... 180
• Waldo, Daniel, & Co., claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Waldo, Edward, Lieut., report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 136
• Waldo, John, & Co., claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Walker, Benjamin, late Captain, report of the Secretary of War in favor of the claim of the widow of for seven years' half-pay ... 70
• Walker, Eseack, claim of allowed ... 390
• Walker, George, clerk, report of committee in favor of allowing relief to his family, he having died of the yellow fever ... 79
• Walker, Gideon, Lieut., claim of for an invalid pension ... 155
• Walker, James, claim of allowed ... 391
• Walker, John, claim of allowed ... 404
• Walker, Matthew, clerk, report of committee in favor of granting relief to his family, he having died of the yellow fever ... 79
• Walker, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 404
• Wall, Fortune, claim of allowed ... 387
• Wall, Richard, claim of allowed ... 391
• Wall, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 387
• Wall, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 397
• Wallace, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 155
• Wallace, Weymouth, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Wallis, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Wallis, Weymouth, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 58, 108, 139
• Walters, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 402
• Walton, Josiah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• Waltrous, Richard, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 113
• Walmsley, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 389
• Wandall, Oliver, claim of for certain new emission bills, inadmissible ... 179
• Ward, Joseph, claim of for certain new emission bills, rejected ... 179, 215, 250
• Ward, Josiah, claim of for an invalid pension ... 162
• Ward, Jonathan, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for property destroyed by the enemy ... 654
• Ward & Riker, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for the confiscation of a vessel at Santa Martha ... 472
• Ward, Samuel, claim of for the renewal of a lost final settlement certificate, rejected ... 179, 215, 258, 700
• Ward, Simon R., claim of allowed ... 398
• Ward, Thomas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 157
• Ward, William, claim of allowed ... 403
• Ware, James, report of committee against placing him on the pension list ... 504
• Ware, William, claim of allowed ... 397
• Warner, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Warner, Samuel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Warner, Seth, claim of allowed ... 398
• Warner, William, claim of allowed ... 395
• Warren, James, report of the Secretary of the Treasury against his claim for indemnity for loss by the depreciation of the currency ... 17
• Warren, James, report of a committee against his claim for indemnity for the loss of his share of certain prizes taken and afterwards restored to the enemy by the Danish Government ... 675
• Warren, William, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 59, 150
• Washington, William, claim of for an invalid pension ... 88
• Washington, Win. H., report of a committee in favor of allowing him indemnity for property destroyed by military order ... 446
• Waterman, Asa, claim of allowed ... 392
• Waterman, John, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Waters, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 404
• Watkins, Gassaway, report of a committee against the claim of for a lost certificate ... 216
• Watkins, James, claim of allowed ... 396
• Watkins, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 404
• Watson, Abraham, report of a committee in favor of compensating his services as a surgeon on Long Island ... 69
• Watson, Guy, claim of allowed ... 403
• Watson, Jack, claim of allowed ... 403
• Watson, James, report of a committee against the claim of for the renewal of certain lost certificate ... 258
• Watson, John, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 116
• Watson, John, jun., claim of allowed ... 399
• Way, Joseph, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 506
• Wayland, James, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 61, 113, 167
• Wayne, Anthony, late Major General, report of committee in favor of the claim of the representatives of for his revolutionary services ... 408
• Weare, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 67, 117
• Weatherford, John, claim of allowed ... 402
• Weaver, Jacob, claim of allowed ... 396, 401
• Webb, Charles, Colonel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117
• Webb, George, late receiver of continental taxes in Virginia, claim of for further allowances on account of services and money stolen, admitted in part by the Secretary of the Treasury ... 31
• Webb, Henry, claim of allowed ... 398
• Webb, John, claim of allowed ... 405
• Webb, Josiah, H., a postrider, shot while carrying the mail, report of committee in favor of granting him relief ... 322
• Webster, Isaac, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62, 120
• Wedge, William, claim of allowed ... 400
• Weed, Hannah, report of committee against the claim of for the maintenance of a wounded soldier ... 552
• Weir, James, claim of allowed ... 403

  Report of committee against allowing him damages on a protested bill of exchange ... 823

• Weir, John, claim of allowed ... 400
• Weiss, Henry, claim of for an invalid pension ... 99
• Welch, Andrew, claim of allowed ... 403
• Welch, David, claim of for an invalid pension ... 122, 164
• Wellman, Jacob, Jr., claim of for an invalid pension ... 135
• Wells, Arnold, claim of for certain quartermaster's certificates, rejected ... 177, 179
• Wells, Asa, Lieutenant, report of committee in favor of the claim of for the return of certain legal expenses ... 524

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• Wells, Bayze, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 67, 117
• Wells, Benjamin, a collector of revenue, report of committee against his claim for indemnity against losses by riots, while executing his duty ... 219

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury against the claim of ... 235

• Wells, G. W., an officer of the army, report of committee against the claim of for indemnity for certain judicial expenses ... 603
• Wells, John, a collector of revenue, report of committee in favor of allowing indemnity to him for a sum of money lost by mail ... 641
• Welsh, Anna, report of committee against the claim of for seven years' half-pay, commutation, and land warrants ... 196, 197
• Werrat, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Wertphal, Nicholas, a British deserter, report of committee on the claim of ... 27
• Wescott, Joseph, a commander of a company of volunteers, report of committee against allowing him credit for a sum of money lost by him ... 499
• Wesley, David, claim of allowed ... 400
• West, Meredith, claim of allowed ... 393
• West, Simon, claim of allowed ... 402
• West Point, report of the Secretary of the Treasury recommending the purchase of for a military post ... 19
• Westcoat, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Wetherall, Abel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Whaley, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Whaley, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 141
• Wharf at Staten Island, report of committee against granting indemnity to, for loss on a contract for repairing and building a ... 882
• Wheaton, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 397
• Wheeler, Ambrose, claim of allowed ... 394
• Wheeler, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 144
• Whileber, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 95
• Whipple, Abraham, Commodore, report of committee in favor of the claim of for revolutionary services ... 381
• Whipple, Eseck, claim of allowed ... 398
• Whistler, John, report of committee against the claim of for money lost when on the recruiting service ... 549
• Whitcomb, Francis, claim of for an invalid pension ... 136
• White, Benjamin, surety to a defaulting postmaster, report of committee in favor of granting relief to ... 830
• White, Frederick, report of committee against the claim of for materials, &c. furnished for the erection of barracks ... 839
• White, Hugh L., report of the Secretary of War on the claim of for militia services against the Southwestern Indians in 1793 ... 193
• White, James, claim of for an invalid pension ... 151, 402
• White, John, claim of allowed ... 392, 394, 400, 404
• White, John A., claim of allowed ... 389
• White, Jonathan, claim of allowed ... 387
• White & Martin, report of committee against the petition of, asking the purchase by the United States from them of certain mast timber ... 249
• White, Moses, Aid-de-Camp to General Moses Hazen, report of the Secretary of the Treasury on his claim for expenses, advances, depreciation, and for additional pay as an aid-de-camp ... 148

  Report of committee against the claim of, for half-pay due to the late General M. Hazen ... 729

• White, Philip, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117
• White, Potter, claim of allowed ... 394
• White, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 393
• White, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 391
• White, Thomas, sen., report of a committee against allowing him arrears of pay ... 545
• White, William, late captain, report of the Secretary of War allowing seven years' half-pay to his children ... 25, 387
• White, William, report of a committee in favor of allowing the claim of for property destroyed by the troops, in 1799 ... 361, 365
• Whitefield, Benjamin, Captain, claim of for militia services ... 505
• Whiting, Charles, half-pay not allowed, by the State of Connecticut, to the representatives of ... 72
• Whiting, David, report of a committee against the claim of for materials, &c. for the erection of barracks ... 839
• Whiting, Samuel, report of the Postmaster General allowing compensation to for apprehending a mail robber ... 355
• Whiting, Samuel, Colonel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117, 154
• Whitney & Wells, report of a committee in favor of allowing them arrears of pay ... 199
• Whittington, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 403
• Wiatt, Pittman, claim of for an invalid pension ... 105
• Widow of a deceased officer, report of the Secretary of War against the claim of her late husband to a pension ... 5
• Widows, claims of ought not to be barred by the statutes of limitation ... 30
• Widows and orphans entitled to seven years' half-pay ... 72

  Provisions for recommended by a committee not to be further extended ... 222

• Wigglesworth, John, claim of allowed ... 399
• Wilcocks, Boardin, claim of allowed ... 388
• Wilcox, Joel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117
• Wilcox, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 399
• Wilcox, Phineas, claim of for an invalid pension ... 159
• Wild, Richard, claim of allowed ... 405
• Wildy, Motley, claim of allowed ... 401
• Wiley, Aldridge, Lieutenant, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Wiley, David, report of a committee against granting him a remission of the still tax ... 222
• Wiley, John, claim of allowed ... 392
• Wilkins, Christiana, claim of allowed ... 398
• Wilkins, Robert B., claim of for an invalid pension ... 135
• Wilkinson, James, General, report of a committee postponing the further consideration of the claim of for moneys disbursed on public account ... 411
• Wilkinson, Michael, claim of allowed ... 391
• Willard, Jonathan, claim of for an invalid pension ... 160
• Willard, Silas, report of a committee in favor of releasing from his obligations as a surety to a recognizor ... 532
• Williams, Alexander M., claim of allowed ... 389
• Williams, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 394
• Williams, Davis, claim of allowed ... 388
• Williams, Dempsey, claim of allowed ... 392
• Williams, Edward, Major, seven years' half-pay allowed to the representatives of ... 72
• Williams, Farr, Captain, claim of for military services ... 506

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• Williams & Gooding, report of a committee in favor of allowing them bounty on slaves captured from a British privateer ... 665, 757
• Williams, Hardey, claim of allowed ... 400
• Williams, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 401
• Williams, John, claim of allowed ... 393, 400
• Williams, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 403
• Williams, Robert, claim of allowed ... 392, 401
• Williams, Thaddeus, claim of allowed ... 103, 165
• Williams, Timothy, claim of for a quartermaster general's certificate, rejected ... 167
• Williams, William, claim of allowed ... 404
• Williamson, Matthew, jun., claim of allowed ... 406
• Willis, James, claim of allowed ... 392
• Wilmarth, Ephraim, report of his monthly allowance and arrearagges due on his pension ... 62, 120, 155
• Wilson, Charles, a clerk who died of the yellow fever, report of a committee allowing compensation to the family of ... 79
• Wilson, Galbraith, claim of allowed ... 394
• Wilson, George, report of a committee against allowing the claim of the representatives of for a pension ... 276
• Wilson, Henry, claim of allowed ... 397, 400
• Wilson, Isaac, claim of allowed ... 399
• Wilson, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 156
• Wilson, John, amount of certificate issued to him ... 393, 400
• Wilson, Joseph, report of a committee allowing his claim for a horse shot by a sentinel ... 473
• Wilson, Moses, claim of allowed ... 397
• Wilson, Robert, claim of for an invalid pension ... 170
• Wilson, Robert, amount of certificate issued to him for a balance due to him ... 405
• Wilson, Thomas, an army contractor, report of a committee in favor of granting him a further allowance ... 415
• Wilson, Williams, et al., report of the Secretary of State against granting indemnity to for the loss of a vessel and cargo for want of a sea-letter ... 284
• Wilson, Willis, report of a committee against allowing him commutation ... 557
• Windsor, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 402
• Wingate, John, claim of allowed ... 403
• Winship, Ebenezer, claim of allowed ... 402
• Winton, David, claim of allowed ... 397
• Wise, Clark, claim of allowed ... 401
• Wise, Samuel, late major, claim of his widow to seven years' half-pay admitted by the Secretary of War ... 30

  Amount of certificate issued to him ... 389

• Wishart, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 392
• Witnesses, report of a committee against allowing compensation to a witness imprisoned in default of security ... 263

  Report of a committee against the claim of J. Rogers for loss of time and expenses while attending a committee of Congress as a witness ... 221

  On the trial of Aaron Burr, report of a committee in favor of further compensating the ... 364

• Witter, Josiah, Lieutenant, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117

  Report of committee on his claim to a pension and arrearages ... 78

• Wittington, Ephraim, claim of allowed ... 403
• Wolleber, Peter, claim of to an invalid pension ... 95
• Wood, David, claim of allowed ... 389
• Wood, Joseph, claim of allowed ... 390
• Wood, Leighton, jun., clerk, report of committee in favor of granting him a further compensation for his services during the yellow fever ... 79
• Wood, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 397
• Woodham, Robert, claim of allowed ... 390
• Woodruff, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 66, 117
• Woodsides, John, a clerk, who died of the yellow fever, report of committee granting relief to his family ... 79
• Woodworth, Azel, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 67, 117, 141
• Woodworth, Roswell, report of committee against his claim for military services ... 534
• Woolfolk, Paul, claim of allowed ... 399
• Woolsey, M. L., report of committee against his claim for damage done to his farm by the troops of the United States ... 663
• Wooster, David, late Major General, seven years' half-pay granted to the representatives of ... 72
• Wooton, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 388
• Wort, John, claim of allowed ... 397
• Worthington, Gad, a collector, report of committee in favor of indemnifying him for money stolen from him ... 541
• Wright, Anthony, report of committee against the claim of the executors of for a wagon and horses impressed into public service ... 833
• Wright, Edward, claim of allowed ... 388
• Wright, John, claim of for an invalid pension ... 102, 165
• Wright, John, claim of allowed ... 390
• Wright, Nahum, claim of for an invalid pension ... 150
• Wright, Nathan, claim of allowed ... 404
• Wright, Thomas, claim of allowed ... 404
• Wright, W., claim of the estate of, for the renewal of certain lost certificates, report of committee against the ... 258
• Writington, Henry, claim of allowed ... 394
• Wykoff, Isaac, claim of for a quartermaster's certificate, disallowed ... 178
• Wyley, Robert, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 63, 111
• Wyman, Seth, claim of for an invalid pension ... 139
• Y.
• Yates, William, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 69, 120
• Yeates, Donaldson, claim of allowed ... 406
• Yeaton, Hopley, report of committee against his claim for revolutionary services ... 411
• Yeaton, John D., claim of allowed ... 392
• Yellow fever, report of committee in favor of further compensation to certain clerks of the Treasury Department, who did duty while the yellew fever was in Philadelphia, and to the families of those who died ... 79, 124
• York, Samuel, claim of allowed ... 388
• Yorrence, Thomas, report of his monthly allowance and arrearages due on his pension ... 62
• Youlan, Benjamin, claim of allowed ... 400

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• Young, Alexander, claim of allowed ... 388
• Young, Anna, heir of Colonel J. Durkee, report of committee in favor of her claim to seven years' half-pay ... 417
• Young, John, claim of allowed ... 395
• Young, Joseph, report of committee against granting indemnity to his heirs for property destroyed by the enemy during the Revolution ... 838
• Young, Moses, report of committee in favor of his claim for consular services at Madrid ... 307

  Report of committee in favor of his claim for diplomatic services as secretary to Colonel J. Laurens, on his embassy to Holland ... 380

• Young, William, report of committee in favor of his claim for assisting in taking the third census in South Carolina ... 472

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of said claim ... 472

• Younglove, John, claim of allowed ... 388
• Youngs, M. and S., report of committee against their claim for indemnity for property destroyed during the Revolution ... 703
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