Guide to the NYS Comptroller's Office, Outgoing Correspondence Replying to Inquiries About Records of Soldiers of the Revolutionary War
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This series contains letterpress copies of replies sent by the comptroller's office in response to inquiries regarding Revolutionary War soldiers. The letters provide information derived from records that were ultimately transferred to the State Archives. Some of the comptroller's records used to derive information regarding military service were subsequently damaged or destroyed in the New York State Capitol fire of 1911. Therefore, in certain cases these letters provide military service data, the original source of which no longer exists.
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New York State Archives Series A0200, Revolutionary War Accounts and Claims, contains original documents used as sources of military service data provided by the comptroller's office in these replies. About sixty percent of the documents that were originally part of A0200 were destroyed in the Capitol Fire of 1911; many others suffered varying degrees of burn damage. Name indexes, volume lists, regimental lists, and some samples of records from the original, complete record series can be found inRoberts, James A. and Frederic G. Mather, eds. Albany: New York State Comptroller's Office, 1904.New York in the Revolution as Colony and State
New York State Archives Series A0870, Copies of Accounts Audited by the Auditor General for Bills Presented to the State, contains original documents used as sources of military service data provided by the comptroller's office in these replies.
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Corporate Name: New York (State). Dept. of Audit and Control
Geographic Name: New York (State)
Geographic Name: New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Subject: Finance, Public--New York (State)--Accounting
Function: Disseminating