Letter from Governor of Northwest Territory
Document 1790Letter from the Governor of the Northwest Territory to the Secretary at War; mentions General Josiah Harmer.
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In Senate of the United States Octobr 5. 1790
Resolved
That it shall be considered as the true [undecipherable: intent] for [undecipherable: calling] only the Militia of the United States & [undecipherable] During the last [undecipherable: Session] & Congress [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Mr [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] a Committee [undecipherable] the United States & the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cannot be [undecipherable: reconciled]
The Yeas & Nays being demanded upon the said [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Messrs [undecipherable] Bassett Butler [undecipherable: Dalton] Patterson [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Elsworth] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Schuyler] [undecipherable] Wingate & [undecipherable: King] Mr [undecipherable: Monroe]
Philadelphia Decr 16. 1790
Last night [undecipherable] [undecipherable] arrived from [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], the [undecipherable] has [undecipherable: brought] the [undecipherable: whole] on the Ohio and brought the following [undecipherable: intelligence] that [undecipherable: judging] by what [undecipherable] will appears that the main object of the [undecipherable: Indian] [undecipherable: expedition] was [undecipherable: accomplished] [undecipherable] notwithstanding the reports to the contrary.
Governor St Clairs [undecipherable: letter] to the Secretary at War
Fort Washington Decr [undecipherable] 1790
Sir
On the [undecipherable] of last month I had the honour to [undecipherable: inform] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable: return] of [undecipherable: Genl] [undecipherable: Harmar] [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable: general] [undecipherable: accounts] [undecipherable: had] not [undecipherable: satisfied] me. [undecipherable: The] other [undecipherable: runners] who [undecipherable: brought] them in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: lost] the [undecipherable: latter] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable: have] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: got] in [undecipherable: a] most [undecipherable: terrible] [undecipherable: fright] of [undecipherable: alarm] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] can be [undecipherable: no] [undecipherable: greater] [undecipherable: proof] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: they] [undecipherable: former] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: troops] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: have] not the [undecipherable: slightest] [undecipherable: inclination] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable: May] on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable: certain] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and have [undecipherable] to [undecipherable: know] for in [undecipherable: what] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable: his] General [undecipherable: Harmar's] [undecipherable: Officers] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: I] [undecipherable: want] to [undecipherable: observe] for [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] he will be [undecipherable: well] [undecipherable: satisfied]. [undecipherable: He] is [undecipherable] as [undecipherable: good] a man [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable: as] [undecipherable: one] his [undecipherable: satisfaction]. [undecipherable: He is] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: brave/generous] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his [undecipherable: obligation] is a [undecipherable: good] man that is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable: receiving] he has [undecipherable: maintained] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Councils] for a [undecipherable: long] [undecipherable: there].
General Harmar's letter
Head Quarters Fort Washington Nov [undecipherable: 4] 1790
Sir
I [undecipherable] [undecipherable: have the] honor to inform you that on the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: Sepr] [undecipherable: I marched] with 320 [undecipherable: federls] & 1133 militia total [undecipherable: 1453]. [undecipherable] a [undecipherable: considerle] [undecipherable: no] [undecipherable: for] [undecipherable: desertion] that are [undecipherable: gone] [undecipherable: which] I am sorry for. The militia [undecipherable: in general] [undecipherable: indeed] [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable: an] [undecipherable: unsatisfacty] [undecipherable: object] of attention. I [undecipherable: beg] leave to refer [undecipherable: you] for [undecipherable: my] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: nature] of the [undecipherable: march] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: was] [undecipherable: broken] [undecipherable: open]. It is a most [undecipherable: beautiful] [undecipherable: settlement] [undecipherable] there are on [undecipherable: one] plain and [undecipherable: about] 300 [undecipherable: log] [undecipherable: houses] & they [undecipherable: keep] horses [undecipherable]. One [undecipherable: Lot] about [undecipherable: the]. The [undecipherable: remainder] of the [undecipherable: Buildings] will be [undecipherable: all set] off [undecipherable: for] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable: Return] [undecipherable: themselves] towards [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter
Description
Letter from the Governor of the Northwest Territory to the Secretary at War; mentions General Josiah Harmer.
Date
11/06/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Washington
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790110654201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Arthur St. Clair
Josiah Harmer
Major Hamtramck
Lieutenant Denny
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Notable items
Dispatches

