Money That Was Stolen, Lost Or Unpaid.

Where’s the money, says about all that can be said about what’s on this page. It’s about money that was lost, stolen or was never paid. It’s hard to believe that when money was so hard to come by in the old days a lot was being lost and not just small amounts, but the sums that ran into thousands of dollars.
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Jonathan Haskell.
1793.

Captain Jonathan Haskell, of the 2d United States regiment, states that on the 20th day of September, 1791, he received orders to march a detachment from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and, for the purpose of paying his soldiers one month’s wages and contingent expenses, he received of public money to the amount of two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, which sum was in bank bills, together with one hundred and thirty-three dollars, which he had just received for his wages and subsistence; that, through the hurry of business in arranging the troops to march, and having petitions, accounts, and papers of almost all contents handed him by the soldiers, he, through mistake, took the paper which contained the bank hills from a close pocket, and some of the crowd secreted it; and that all possible means were taken to recover it, without effect.
Note. It was found my the committee that as an officer his statement was found truthful, and would get back the $285.25, but as to his own money, the committee found that he was responsible for his own property and the $133, would not be retuned.
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Abraham Watson.
1793.

Abraham Watson states, that being then a captain in the 3d Massachusetts regiment, commanded by Colonel Greaton, he was captured by the enemy on the 3d day of February, 1780, and sent to Long Island, where he remained about ten months; that, during the said term, he officiated as surgeon and physician to a number of officers, prisoners at the same time, and supplied them with necessary medicines; that, by officiating in that capacity to a number of the inhabitants, he procured considerable stuns from them, which lie expended for necessaries for the said officers, who were destitute, and had not the means of procuring supplies; that, at the time of his being exchanged, he exhibited to Abraham Skinner, commissary general of prisoners, his account, with the necessary vouchers, and received from him a certificate that there were due to him eighty-six pounds fourteen shillings, New York currency, which he promised to pay him, but which he has never been able to obtain.
Note. His claim was omitted from the list of those to be paid by a act of congress of 1790, proof was shown that he should have been paid and as it was no fault of his it was order that he would get paid.
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Haffield White.
1818.

Haffield White, represents himself, in the month of April, 1777, to have been in military service in Colonel Rufus Putnam’s regiment; that Lieutenant Colonel NewHall, commanding the first division of said regiment, drew one month’s pay for the men in said division, which the petitioner received, and paid it over to the men, excepting two hundred and fifty dollars, which was due to those who had fallen sick on the march. The corps were subsequently ordered to leave their baggage with a guard, and the petitioner, with the advice of Colonel Newhall, put the money into his journal book, and deposited it with his clothing, which money, after the action of the 22d July of the year aforesaid, being in a baggage wagon which was taken for the removal of the wounded by order of the commanding officer, General Nixon, was lost1 and part of the petitioner’s clothing. On the day of the action aforesaid, Colonel Putnam arrived with his division, bringing on the men to whom the money the petitioner had lost was due.

By an arrangement with the paymaster of the regiment, who arrived with the second division, he (the paymaster) advanced the money to the men, and the petitioner indemnified him out of his pay; which sum the petitioner avers was never reimbursed to him. A certificate is annexed to the petition, signed Rufus Putnam, to which the committee refer as a part of their report, An original letter is also annexed, signed B. Goodhue, dated Philadelphia, March 29, 1794, addressed to the petitioner, informing him his petition had been referred to the Secretary of War, who bad reported favorably on his claim. The committee addressed letters to the Treasury and Navy Departments, enclosing the petition and documents for further information, and have received in answer that no records exist in either touching this claim. The committee believe the petitioner’s claim to be equitable. They therefore respectfully submit the following resolution: Resolved, That a bill be reported, allowing Haffield White the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, in full of all his claims on the United States.
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Landon N. Carter.
1836.

Landon N. Carter, was in service on. board the United States ship Guerriere, Commodore Thompson, in the Pacific ocean, was in November, 1829, put under arrest upon charges exhibited against him by his commanding officer of a serious nature, and was sent to the United States, where he arrived in the year 1830, and on the 23d March, 1830, he was directed by the Navy Department to consider himself under arrest, and informed that a court-martial for his trial would be ordered as early as the attendance of the necessary witnesses could be procured.

No restraint was imposed upon Lieutenant Carter, and he was left at liberty to go where he pleased, as if waiting orders, and in this situation remained until February, 1832, when, upon an acknowledgment by Lieutenant Carter of the truth of the charges against him, and concessions to Captain Thompson for the improper conduct of the petitioner towards that officer, Captain Thompson agreed that the charges might be withdrawn, and Lieutenant Carter was in consequence released from arrest and during this period he received full pay and rations, servant hire and fuel.

Lieutenant Carter claimed, in addition to his pay and allowances as above stated, for chamber money during the period he was under arrest, at the rate of two dollars per week, one hundred and ninety dollars, which has been refused; and he now petitions for that allowance by Congress. The letters annexed to and made part of this report, marked A, B, C, contain the reasons of the Department for refusing the allowance, and the committee, upon a full consideration of all the circumstances of this case, are of opinion that the petitioner is not entitled to the allowance he asks for.
Note. The reason he was not paid was, although he was under arrest he was free to go where he pleased, as he was on leave of absence, and not duty bond, and as there were no rooms for officers there, he choose to pay higher prices then he was allowed when he could have went some where else.
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James H. Clark.
1819.

That the said Clark claims the relief which the bill is intended to-provide, upon a statement of facts, of which the following is the substance, to wit: That, on the 17th day of November, 1815, he was ordered by Commodore Shaw to proceed from Port Mahon, in the Mediterranean, to Marseilles, for the purpose of purchasing clothing for the crew of the frigate United States; and that, having arrived at Marseilles, and taken lodgings at an hotel, he was, on the night of the 3d of December of the same year, robbed of $816 by a seaman, who had accompanied him in the capacity of a servant.

That he received the order above mentioned, and having taken with him $1,600 in Spanish gold, he proceeded to Marseilles, took lodgings at an hotel, and was robbed of about the sum alleged, there can be but little if any doubt; and it is for Congress to decide whether the loss shall fall upon him or the United States. It appears, from the evidence exhibited by the claimant, that he and a Major Hall, of the marines, lodged at the same hotel, and that the money in the custody of each, amounting, in the whole, to something more than 19,000 francs, was deposited in a trunk in the room where they lodged; and that, on the evening of the said 3d of December, they locked their room, and, leaving the key in the hands of the porter of the hotel, went to the theatre, from whence they returned at about 11 o’clock. On entering the hotel, and inquiring for the key, they were told by the porter that their servant bad already taken it, and must then be in their apartment; but on going thither they found the key in the door, their trunk forced, and a large portion of their money and their servant missing. Having learned from the door keeper of the hotel that the servant had left the house at about 10 o’clock, the American consul and a police officer were immediately notified, and every reasonable exertion made to apprehend the servant, but without effect.

If the present claimant allowed his servant to have access to his room in his absence, it appears to the committee that there was a want of care, for which the Government ought not to be responsible, particularly while it is in proof that the servant was no other than a Neapolitan seaman, and their money no otherwise secured than in a leather trunk, for the forcing of which nothing but a knife was necessary. If the servant was not allowed to have access to the room, care should have been taken that the key should not have passed into his hands. Believing, then, that there was a degree of negligence not altogether excusable, and that otherwise the money would not have been lost, the committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate entitled “An act for the relief of James H. Clark,” be indefinitely postponed.
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Peyton G. King.

AN ACT
JULY 28, 1856.
For the relief of Peyton G. King, late receiver of public money at Monroe, Louisiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,authorized and directed, in adjusting the accounts of Peyton G. King, as late receiver of public money at the United States land office at Monroe, Louisiana, to give him credit for the sum of seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-two cents, the amount of the public money of which he was robbed on the twenty-second day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five, while acting in the aforesaid capacity.
Passed the House of Representatives, July 26, 1856.
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Henry Clay Williams.

A BILL
DECEMBER 18, 1871.
To appropriate to Henry Clay Williams a sum of money found due him on the adjustment of his accounts.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated to Henry Clay Williams, the same being a balance due him upon the adjustment of his accounts as receiver of the land-office at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre, Petre Forest, Antoine Dupre, Scolaste Roy.
1833.

Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre, as the legal representatives of Petre Forest, Antoine Dupré, Scolaste Roy, claims seventy-four acres of laud which was originally included in their surveys of three several tracts of land granted by the Spanish government, and confirmed by the United States. From the evidence before the committee, it seems that the surveys made under the authority of the United States, by their deputy, James Hazzard, were erroneously executed, varying from the original lines so as to leave out of their boundaries the said seventy-four acres of land, and including the same quantity by running upon a confirmed tract belonging to another individual; thereby the said seventy four acres were represented as public land and sold accordingly, and the said Jeansonne and Petre became the purchasers at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, amounting to ninety-two dollars and fifty cents. They therefore solicit Congress to pass an act authorizing the return of the money so paid. The committee, considering the prayer of the petitioners just and reasonable, report a bill for their relief.
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John J. McAlmont and Silas F. Field, John G. Halliburton.

A BILL
APRIL 4, 1872.
For the relief of John J. McAlmont and Silas F. Field, as sureties on the bond of John G. Halliburton, deceased, late marshal of the United States in and for the eastern district of Arkansas.

Whereas John G. Halliburton, now deceased, was, on and before the sixth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, marshal of the United States in and. for the eastern district of Arkansas, and on that day had a large amount of money belonging to the United States, which he never paid over or accounted for; and

Whereas the circuit court of the United States in and for said eastern district of Arkansas rendered judgment against him and his said sureties for said sum of money on the suit of the United States instituted in that court, which said judgment was, on writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States, duly and in all things affirmed at the December term, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and

Whereas, by the record and proof in said cause, it appears said money was seized and held by the authorities of the so-called Confederate States, and the said Halliburton was prevented by said authorities from accounting to the United States therefor, and there was no willful withholding by him of said money; and

Whereas, since the appeal was taken in said cause, the said Halliburton has died, and his estate is wholly insolvent, and if said money, or any part thereof, is paid, his said sureties must pay it: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if said sureites will pay, or cause to be paid, to the proper officers of’ said circuit court, at Little Rock, all fees and costs of said suit, including the attorney’s fees, within thirty days after the passage of this act, then they shall be relieved of any and all further responsibility by or on account of said judgment; and upon the full payment of said fees and costs as aforesaid, the district attorney of said eastern district is directed to enter full and complete satisfaction of said judgment on the record thereof.
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William A. Bevins, David S. Fraley and Edwin MeGuire.

A BILL
APRIL 4, 1872.
For the relief of William A. Bevins, late receiver of the public moneys at the Batesville district of Arkansas, and of David S. Fraley and Edwin MeGuire, his sureties.

Whereas the said Bevins was, on and before the sixth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one, receiver of public moneys of the United States in and for the Batesville district, in the State of Arkansas, and on that day he had a large’ amount of money in his possession belonging to the United: States, which he never paid over or accounted for; and

Whereas the circuit court of the United States in and for the eastern district of Arkansas rendered judgment against him and his said sureties for said sum of money on the suit of the United States instituted in that court, which said judgment was, on writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States, duly and in all things affirmed at the December term, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and

Whereas, by the record and proof in said cause, it appears said money was seized and held by the authorities of the so called Confederate States, and the said Bevins was prevented by said authorities from accounting to the United States therefor, and there was no willful withholding by him of said money; and

Whereas, since said money was so seized and held, and the said Bevins prevented from paying the same to the United States, he, the said Bevins, has become insolvent, and no money can be made out of him, and whatever may be collected on said judgment will be paid by his said sureties: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if said Bevins and his sureties, or any of them, will pay, or cause to be paid, to the proper officers of said circuit court at Little Rock all fees and costs of said suit, including the attorney’s fees, within thirty days after the passage of this
act, then they shall he relieved of any and all further responsibility by or on account of said judgment; and upon the full payment of said fees and costs, as aforesaid, the district attorney of said eastern district is directed to enter fully and complete satisfaction of such judgment on the record thereof.
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Thomas Douty.
1827.

The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred, by a resolution of the house of the 27th of December last, expediency the of directing the Secretary of the
Navy to pay unto Thomas Douty the sum of $19.91, for his share of prize money while engaged as an artilleryman on board the frigate Macedonian, in the year 1815, reported: That by the papers accompanying the report it appears that the amount of $19.91 is due to the said Thomas Douty for such prize money, and therefore direct a bill for paying the same to be reported to the House.
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Henry Malcolm.
1816.

Henry Malcolm, was appointed the collector of the customs for the district of Hudson, in the State of New York, in the year 1795, when the district was established. It was his constant practice to remit the money which he received on account of duties in bank notes to the branch of the Bank of the United States in the city of New York, and no accident or loss occurred in consequence of this practice until the 28th of June, t808. On that day the petitioner, put under cover, addressed to the cashier of the Branch Bank, a sum of one thousand dollars in notes of the Bank of Columbia, in the city of Hudson, and delivered the packet to the postmaster of Hudson to ho sent by the next mail. A letter of advice was at the same time forwarded to the cashier, which was duly received; but the money was stolen on its way, and has never been received at the Branch Bank, or passed to the credit of the Treasury. The accounting officers have refused to credit the remittance in the settlement of the petitioner’s account, and he prays to be relieved by the authority of Congress.
Note. He did not receive his settlement, here are two reason why; 1st. That the remittance by mail was not authorize, or, if authorize, should have been guarded by cutting the bank notes in two parts, and sending the parts by successive mails. 2. That the remittance was made in the notes of the Bank of Columbia, instead of the notes of the Bank of the United States or its branches.
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John Palmer Cox.
1815.

John Palmer Cox, is a paymaster to a regiment of New York militia commanded by Colonel Anthony D. Lameter, and which, in the month of August last, was stationed at Harlem Heights, in the city of New York; that be had received of the United States several thousand dollars, to pay off the militia, which he had deposited, in a small trunk about eighteen inches in length, and which he usually kept locked up in a closet in his bed-chamber, until, by indisposition, he was confined to his bed, when he had the same brought and placed on the floor of the room, near the side of his bed; that, on the evening of the 31st of October last, the petitioner, and some other officers who lived in the room with him, went to a neighboring house to take tea, leaving the trunk in the room and, when they returned, it was gone.

It appears from the depositions of Maria and Sophia Grenzeback, which were referred to the committee, that, on the 24th of December last they saw the trunk in the bushes, some distance from their father’s house on Harlem Heights; and that, as soon as they saw it, they knew it at a distance to be the trunk of the petitioner.

They gave information to their father, who carried the trunk to his house, and sent for a Mr. Henry Post to come and open it, and view its contents. He opened trunk, and found it contained $137 and half, dollars and many papers belonging to the petitioner.

The petitioner states that he had in the trunk, at the time it was stolen, $9,587. One deponent swears that he verily believes that sum was in the trunk when it was taken; and another states that, on the evening the trunk was stolen, he saw the petitioner count the money, and, from the appearance, of the bundles of the bills, be believes there was that amount. The petitioner asks relief of Congress.
Note. He was not to get relief, for the following reasons:

1. That the loss of the money, and the amount thereof, are not clearly and satisfactorily shown.

2. That the loss, if it actually did take place, was under such circumstances as would constitute negligence on the part of the petitioner.

3. That if the money actually was stolen from the petitioner, without any negligence on his part, the United States would not be liable for it. It is believed they should not be considered the insurers of money in cases of this description.
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Robert Thornton.
1828.

Robert Thornton, of the city of Philadelphia, was a quartermaster with Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, in the recapture of the Philadelphia frigate, in 1804; and prays your honorable body to grant him an equal dividend of the $100,000 proposed to be granted to Mrs. Decatur and the crew who volunteered and destroyed the Philadelphia, agreeably to the usual mode of sharing prize money, by the existing laws of the United States, or such equitable distribution as will leave the seamen seven-twentieths and the officers and petty officers the usual shares, according to rank. Your petitioner respectfully states that every man did his duty, and prays that, whatever sum Congress may grant, the dividend may be uniform to the captors, or their heirs, agreeably to the common practice of dividing prize money.
ROBERT THORNTON.
PHILADELPHIA, February 11, 1828.
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F. C. De Krafft.

F. C. De Krafft, formerly a midshipman in the navy of the United States, and of the crew of the ketch Intrepid, was in on the capture and burning of the frigate Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tripoli, on the 17th February, 1804.
Note. He is asking the same as Robert Thornton.
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David Goorley.
1833.

David Goorley, enlisted on the 4th February, 1813, for five years, and that he was discharged and paid on the 24th May, 1818, in the port of Leghorn, by the order of Commodore Stewart; according to the statement of the petitioner himself, he was then discharged at his own request. He, however, asserts that he was induced to make this request in consequence of his having been detained in the service seven months beyond his term of enlistment, and having been repeatedly deceived and disappointed by promises made and violated by his officers to send him home, in various vessels which returned from the Mediterranean after his term of service expired. These allegations, however, are all falsified by the fact stated above, on the information furnished by a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, showing that he was discharged four days after the expiration of his term of service.
The committee therefore report that the said Goorley has no claim to have refunded to him the expenses of his passage home; and they ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the said resolution.
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Daniel Gold.
1816.

Daniel Gold, was in the 20th, brigade of Virginia militia, commanded by Captain Jonathan Walmsley; in the year 1814, the he served a tour of duty in the military service of the United States, at and near Norfolk, and, after having faithfully served out his time, obtained an honorable discharge for the same; that the funds which had been placed in the hands of the district Paymaster not being sufficient to c1ischare the amount of his pay, he received, at the time of his discharge, he, got the sum of twenty dollars and twenty cents, and requested of Captain Jonathan Walmsley (who commanded the company to which he belonged) to settle and receive the balance of his pay from the Paymaster, and carry it to them in the county of Randolph, in the State of Virginia, where they resided. Captain Walinsley received of the Paymaster at Norfolk a check on Robert Brent, Paymaster General, for the amount of the balance due to him and discounted it at that place at five per cent. On his way home, having taken a passage in the stage, he lodged at the Columbian hotel, in the city of Richmond, where his trunk was robbed of the money.

It appears to the committee, from the affidavits of John Mayce, Lieutenant John Brown, and Captain Walmaley, that they all arrived at the hotel together, and lodged in the same room ; that, after getting into the room, it was thought by them that the money which Captain Walmaley had in his pocket would be equally safe, and more conveniently kept in a trunk which belonged to Brown and Mayce; that the money was accordingly placed in the trunk by Walmeley, in the presence of Brown and Mayce, and the key of the trunk given to Walmaley. On the next morning after the money was deposited, upon unlocking the trunk for the purpose of taking it out, it was ascertained by all three of them that the money had been stolen.

In the room in which the trunk was, Mr. Mayce lodged all night, and was at no time absent from the same, except a few minutes while at supper on that evening, and during that time he locked the door of the room upon starting to supper, and found it so locked upon his return to the same. The committee have the assurances of a member of the House of Representatives, that Walmsley, Brown, and Mayce, are all men of good character.
Note. The committee found the as Walmsley, had the key and was acting as agent for the money the committee, feels the government should not be held for the loss, but in that it was of no fault of the men, that there was no money at the time of discharge. It was felt by the committee, that as the money was not at hand at the time of discharge the government would be held accountable, and their money would be refunded.

Benjamin Huffman.

AN ACT
JANUARY 6, 1824.
Appropriating a certain sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, of the state of Indiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate anti House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin Huffman the sum of five hundred dollars, to enable him to regain his son, Peter Huffman, who was taken a captive by hostile Indians,during the late war: provided, The said Benjamin Huffman shall previously give bond, with sufficient security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned upon the said Huffman’s rendering to the proper Accounting Officers of the Treasury Department, correct accounts of his expenditure, of the whole or any part of the said sum of money, for the sole purpose of regaining the possession of his son aforesaid; and that the said Huffman shall pay any balance that may remain in his hands, after the expenditure provided for as aforesaid, into the Treasury of the United States.
SEC. 2. .And be it further enacted That the afore said sum shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Passed the house of Representatives, January 5, 1824.
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Robert Purkis.

A BILL
FEBRUARY 20, 1845.
Authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Robert Purkis.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars, with legal interest thereon, from the twenty-sixth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, until paid, to Robert Purkis, of the State of Rhode Island, or to his legal representatives; which sum of four hundred dollars is paid to him as an evidence of the sense entertained by Congress of his valor and good conduct, in baying recaptured, alone and unassisted,, a vessel called the Little Sarah, together with four seamen, of the British navy; which prisoners were delivered to Commodore Creighton, of the navy of the United States, and as a compensation for the prisoners so taken.
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Thomas Shields.

A BILL
DECEMBER 28, 1820.
.Authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Thomas Shields.

Be it enacted by the Senate anti House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to Thomas Shields, or his legal representative, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand five hundred and eighty one dollars and six cents; which is paid to him in consideration of his loss of property to that amount, occasioned by burning the public store house, at the Bay of St. Louis, by order of lieutenant Jones, commanding the naval force of the United States, stationed at that point, during the invasion of Louisiana by the enemy, in the winter of eighteen hundred and. fourteen and fifteen.
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John T Gourtnay and Samuel Harrison.

A Bill.
FEBRUARY 19th, 1816.
Authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T Gourtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal Representatives.

Be it enacted by the Senate and i--louse of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harri5 son, citizens of Virginia, or if either or both of them he dead, then to their legal representatives, the sum of three hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be equally divided between them; which sum is paid to them in consequence of their exertions in saving from being destroyed by fire the gun boat schooner Asp, belonging to the United States, when she was set on fire and
left burning by the enemy, after having been taken by them in an action in the month of July, 1813, in the river Potomack.
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John Gooding and James Williams.

A Bill.
FEBRUARY 4, 1822.
authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to John Gooding and James Williams, late owners of the private armed schooner Midas, or to their legal representative or representatives, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, which sum is paid to them as bounty money, at the rate of one hundred dollars per man, for twenty-two prisoners who were slaves, but part of the crew and combatants on board the privateer Dash, taken by the said schooner Midas, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, during the war between the United States and Great Britain.