Instructions to Deputy Paymaster & Storekeeper for Tennessee

Item

Type

Letter Signed

Title

Instructions to Deputy Paymaster & Storekeeper for Tennessee

Description

Appoints Hillis as deputy paymaster & military storekeeper for Tennessee. Instructions from the Comptroller of the Treasury and the Accountant of the War Department follow, addressing record- and receipt-keeping, the proper filling of forms, the provisioning of troops, the sending of records to the quartmaster, ordnance, clothing, Indian, commissary, and hospital departments as necessary, where he is to set up shop (Knoxville), whence he is to look for additional instructions (the Department of War), the hiring of an assistant, the care of gunpowder, the hiring of artificers to repair federal arms, the disposition of funds with which to pay the militia, and Hillis' own salary.

year created

1796

month created

08

day created

13

author

James McHenry

sent from location

War Office

recipient

Stephen Hillis

in collection

John Adams Papers

in image

IDD03

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DEII Candidacy: detailed instructions to a paymaster/military storekeeper reveal much about early War Department policy in the payment and supply of troops.

notable person/group

Stephen Hillis
James McHenry
President of the United States
commanding officers
regular troops
militia
Governor John Sevier

notable location

War Office
Tennessee
Ohio River
Knoxville

notable item/thing

appointed
public property
duties as deputy Pay Master
pay abstracts
muster rolls
forms
pay rolls
receipts
ordnance
clothing
Indian department
commissary
medicines
letters of instructions
gunpowder
arms

document number

1796081300255

page start

87

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[view document] (157 pages) IDD03 (157 pages) Collection: John Adams Papers R: 384

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author James McHenry War Office [n/a]
Recipient Stephen Hillis [unknown] [n/a]