Settling Accounts of Pay to Workmen from 1785
Document 1787In June 1785, Price sent Hodgdon a pay abstract for the men employed in the ordnance department at West Point. That same month, Hodgdon replied that the drafts for money to pay the men would be forthcoming. The money did not apparently arrive. The bearer of the letter, Mr. Robert Dunlap, is a storekeeper who paid the men when they were discharged and has a receipt for the sum. Price asks that Hodgdon pay Dunlap the amount due by the receipt.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
In June 1785, Price sent Hodgdon a pay abstract for the men employed in the ordnance department at West Point. That same month, Hodgdon replied that the drafts for money to pay the men would be forthcoming. The money did not apparently arrive. The bearer of the letter, Mr. Robert Dunlap, is a storekeeper who paid the men when they were discharged and has a receipt for the sum. Price asks that Hodgdon pay Dunlap the amount due by the receipt.
Date
12/10/1787
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1787121055055
Page start
27
Note
Cites Price to Hodgdon 06/08/1785 and Hodgdon to Price 06/17/1787.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
William Price
Lutter
men
Ordnance Department
Secretary at War
bearer
Robert Dunlap
storekeeper
Notable locations
West Point
Notable items
pay abstract
draughts
drafts
money
contingent expenses
store
discharged
pay
receipt
order