New York State Auditor General Copies of Accounts Audited by the Auditor General for Bills Presented to the State

Series is arranged chronologically by date of audit.

This series consists of copies of accounts audited by the Auditor General for obligations incurred by the state during years 1775-1794. Entries include abstracts of pay and ration rolls for militia officers and private soldiers during the Revolutionary War. In addition to name and amount due, some entries give information on rank or length of service.

Also included are accounts for supplies purchased or requisitioned during the war; accounts for individual soldiers' back pay or for widows' pensions; accounts for loyalist lands leased or sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures; accounts for service by members of Congress, the Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies, the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, the Surveyor-General, and other state offices; accounts of fees received by Collectors for the Ports of New York and Sag Harbour, 1780's; and accounts presented for miscellaneous services.

Photostat use copies are available at the New York State Archives.

High resolution images of the entirety of Original Volumes A and B are available in State Archives Digital Collections.

A1363 New York State Comptroller's Office outgoing correspondence replying to inquiries about records of soldiers of the Revolutionary War and

A3202 Treasurer's accounts of payments made contain related records.

Original manuscript indexes to Volumes A and B are included in the series.

The index to series A0870 contains 4111 entries. Each entry includes the claimant's name. Each record also provides a pointer to the location within the records series.

Original Volumes A and B were rebound in two parts each following the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911. Bound photostatic copies of the two original volumes were added to the series at an unknown date.

Due to fragility of original volumes, digital versions should be consulted initially.