Request for Forms

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Request for Forms

Description

Forms for keeping accounts of factory requested, per advice from late Sec. of War.

year created

1800

month created

06

day created

27

author

sent from location

Fort Wilkinson

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

John Harris
Edward Wright
accountant
Secretary of War
Comptroller

notable location

Philadelphia
Fort Wilkinson
factory
Georgia

notable item/thing

invoice
forms
accounts
illness

document number

1800062728101

page start

1

transcription

No. 8
Fort Wilkinson
June 27th 1800
Draft of a letter to
Mr. John Harris. [undecipherable] of
[undecipherable] Phila
in answer to his of the
27th Ulto. May
Fort Wilkinson June 27th 1800
Sir
Your favour of the 27th Ultimo May, came to hand by post some days since, I shall attend to it's contents. In a letter recd at the same time from the late Secry of War, he directed, that if I have not been furnished with Forms, for keeping and rendering the factory accounts, to apply for the same from either the Comptroller of the Treasury, or the Accountant of the War Department. I will thank you sir, to apply for them in my behalf and forward them by Post. I have been I hope an asst. will come on shortly in a short time, I have been unwell for ten days past.
I am Sir
yr Obd & hbl Servnt, E. W.
Ctr. John Harris
Keeper of Military Stores
Phila

Item sets

Document instances

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[view document] (2 pages) XFV15 (2 pages) Collection: Correspondence (Letters Received, Letters Sent, and Accounts) of the Creek Factory, 1795-1814. (RG75) Chronological
[view document] (2 pages) XFV15a (2 pages) Collection: Correspondence (Letters Received, Letters Sent, and Accounts) of the Creek Factory, 1795-1814. (RG75) Chronological

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Edward Wright Fort Wilkinson [n/a]
Recipient John Harris Philadelphia [n/a]