Peter Muhlenberg

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  Relative to situation in Luzerne County; Colonel Buttler's conduct during late riot

  10/31/1787 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Colonel Dennison laid before the council several papers related to situation in Luzerne County. Council wishes to deliberate on measures. Sufficient number of troops will be sent to take part in …

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  Seniority of commissioned officers

  05/16/1788 Printed transcription/modern copy of letter

  Letter, discusses rank of quota officers. The ranks of Denny and Spear to remain suspended until pretensions are laid out before the board. If Denny is senior officer, he may be commissioned …

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  Regarding the insurgents who apprehended Pickering and the need for military force

  08/05/1788 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Requests that Pickering give opinion as to whether armed force is necessary to restore order and good government.

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  Money for recruiting service, appointments, and rank disputes

  09/09/1788 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Discusses issue of paper currency relative to money allocated for recruiting service. Board has appointed R. Allison Surgeon Mate to J.F. Carmichael of Harmar's Regiment. Discusses disputes of rank …

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  Attack at Falls of Muskingum; measures by General Assembly regarding defence of frontier

  09/09/1788 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Muhlenberg acknowledges receiving account of attack on troops at Falls of Muskingum. General Assembly will meet on business regarding defense of frontiers; expresses hope that measures will be adopted …

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  Settling accounts

  09/12/1789 Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed

  Writes the Commissioner of Army Accounts concerning his own account from his experience in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Muhlenberg had wrongly assumed his account to already be settled.

  Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859)