Army Officers' Subsistence Pay
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Army Officers' Subsistence Pay
Description
Encloses estimates for the subsistence of the Army for December 1783 and January 1784. Mentions the considerable inconvenience to officers from not receiving subsistence payments for December and request that the pay be sent to him. Requests seven or eight hundred dollars for supply of his own necessities as well as the necessities of those gentlemen assist him.
year created
1784
month created
01
day created
04
author
sent from location
West Point
recipient
in image
note
addressed to Mr. Morris
notable person/group
Robert Morris
John Pierce
Army
officers
General Knox
notable location
West Point
War Office
notable item/thing
estimates
subsistence
December
January
money
pay
dollars
provisions
document number
1784010437201
page start
1
