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Compensation for Services Rendered
10/25/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton argues for the awarding of compensation and emoluments to Lieutenant Smith for service rendered as judge advocate. His absece from that post was due to a severe wound recieved while in …
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Comfortable Accomodations of Both Regiments
10/25/1799 Draft Document
"I this morning received your letter dated the 23rd instant...Entertaining the same opinion I request you will accordingly give such orders as you may deem proper and expedient for the comfortable …
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Circular to the Commandants of Regiments
04/23/1799 Draft Document
The Secretary of War has authorized the hiring of temporary drummers and fifers for the recruiting service until others can be enlisted. New recruits should not remain long at their company …
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Attempts to procure soldiers on writs of Habeas Corpus...
08/24/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton requests an opinion on whether it is legal to demand a writ of habeas corpus for a man duly enlisted as a soldier. [Refers to the case of a soldier named Edward Walker whose father requested …
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Articles Furnished in Proportion to Half Those Enlisted, Etc.
03/19/1799 Draft Document
In addition to sending a plan for dividing sundry States into recruiting districts and sub districts, Hamilton suggests that bounty money, clothing, and other articles should be furnished in …
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Arrears of Pay for Officers of the Old Regiment
11/01/1799 Draft Document
"When I was at Trenton I considered it as perfectly understood between you and me that those officers of the old regiments to whom arrears of pay are due should receive the sums to which they are …
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Arrangements for the Western Army
10/06/1799 Draft Document
"General Wilkinson has just returned to this city and will set out together with myself for Trenton on Monday in order to settle definitively with you the requisite arrrangements for the Western …
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Arrangement of Rank of Colonels and Majors
10/31/1799 Draft Document
"No particular rules were laid down for the government of the colonels and majors in the arrangement of rank as it was supposed that they would naturally take into consideration all circumstances …
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Army Recruiting
11/07/1799 Draft Document
Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting.
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Arming, Clothing, and Equipping Your Regiment, Etc.
06/05/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton informs Rice that the articles needed to arm, equip, and clothe his regiment will soon be delivered and that there are no objections to the proposed exchange of officers.
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Appointments and promotions
04/05/1799 Draft Document
Routine applications for Army appointments and promotions
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An Act for the Better Organizing of the Troops
05/12/1799 Draft Document
"Describes the provisions of Sections 19 and 22 of 'An Act for the better organizing of the Troops of the United States; and for other purposes.'"
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Allowances of Rooms and Fuel to Officers
09/02/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton explains the allowances of rooms and fuel to officers of sundry ranks.
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Allowance of Spirits
08/26/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton has ordered Major Adam Hoops and Captain James Stille to Fort Niagara to investigate Captain James Bruff's charges against Rivardi. He states that although most men had enlisted when the "the …
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Allotment of Rations, Forage, Spirits,and Women
11/02/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton describes the rules regarding the allotment of rations, forage, and spirits to officers and men but there are no established rules on the subject of forage or provision of artificers for the …
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Acquiring Land and Fuel for Winter Quarters
09/27/1799 Draft Document
Hamilton prefers Oxford over Uxbridge for winter quarters because the former has more wood for hutting and fuel than the latter. He directs Rice to purchase the right of soil if it can be had at a …
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Accelerate the Advances
10/12/1799 Draft Document
Swan quotes from Thomas Parker's letter urging that the advances of pay to the regiments be accelerated. Also there are newly appointed officers in the four old regiments and officers on furlough who …
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Draft Act for better organizing the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
1800 Draft Document
Draft act for the better organizing of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
MS Collection, Hamilton.
Articles of Agreement for contracted rations
09/04/1800 Draft Document
Procurement, contract for rations; describes rations.
James Wilkinson Papers
Ammunition Ordered by General Hamilton
03/20/1800 Draft Document
Sundry ammunition ordered by General Hamilton for Harpers Ferry, Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Certificates of 2d Regiment
Draft Document
On examining and comparing the accounts of certificates of the 2d Regiment for pay from August 1780.
Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853)
Notes on Treaty Negotiations
Draft Document
The unknown author lists points to be made during treaty negotiations and discusses civilizing Indians, the Revolutionary War and Indian independence.
Timothy Pickering Papers
Report of the Secretary of War on the Referred Petition
Draft Document
In this report, McHenry asseses the petition for pay owed Poirey, Secretary to Lafayette. Poirey has requested pay for his time as secretary and aide de camp to Lafayette. McHenry discusses Acts of …
Special Collections, MSA SC 1407. McHenry Collection, M11697.