Problem Regarding Subsistence for Hamtramck's March Being Funded with Bank Notes
Document 1785The Treasury issued bank notes instead of cash for the subsistence of Captain Hamtramck's company on the march. Joseph Carleton, War Office, explains this problematic circumstance to LtCol Nicholas Fish.
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[New York Oct 15th 85
From N.T. Carleton
apologizing for sending
Bank Notes to subsist
Capt N's Company
Collins Farm]
[Addressed:] Lts t: Colonel Fish
at:
[Signed:] [undecipherable: probable reading W.W. Irish]
[By Williams]
Dear Irish Wall Street 15 Oct 85
I have been obliged to receive from the Treasurer, [undecipherable] Bank Notes in payment of the Draft on him for 850 Dollars for the Subsist[ence] of Capt: Humbranks Company to [undecipherable] Sir — We have got a [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] for Cash on the road Mr Swann [undecipherable] fly with him — [undecipherable] Captain Humbranks [undecipherable] and those places through which he [will] pass, will rec[eive] in them and give him Cash —
Mr Athlegan and myself have tried every where to get them changed here and could not effect it. My [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
The Treasury issued bank notes instead of cash for the subsistence of Captain Hamtramck's company on the march. Joseph Carleton, War Office, explains this problematic circumstance to LtCol Nicholas Fish.
Date
10/15/1785
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Repository
Collection
Document number
1785101515001
Page start
1
Note
3 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, two without images.
Notable persons
Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Fish
Joseph Carleton
Captain Hamtramck
Mr. Swan
Mr. Hilligan
treasurer
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Fort Pitt
Philadelphia
Wall Street
Notable items
bank notes
cash
money
subsistence
charges
draft

