Supplies for the militia
Document 1791Presley Nevill notifies Major General Richard Butler that he had sent a cask of powder and lead for the militia due to their want of ammunition. The militia are to scout the Virginia frontier for Indians that injured settlers.
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[Docket on cover: No. 1. — from [undecipherable] Presfly Nevill [undecipherable] to — Extract of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by Gen'l. Butler — Recei on [undecipherable]]
[Philad[elphia] 1791 /]
Extract of a Letter from Presley Nevile Esqr to General Richard Butler — dated Pittsburgh March 19th 1791.
On my arrival about ten days ago in this country, I found our Frontiers greatly alarmed by the Savages, and many have actually moved off from about the mouth of Racoon Creek, To increase the Danger, on the ninth Instant a party of Virginians under the Command of Captain Brady, fell on a Party of trading Indians at the Block House, and killed four or five; since which, I find it very difficult to prevent the settlement adjoining the River from Breaking up. — I have ordered Thirty, men under a subaltern to range near the River from the virginia line upwards, and give intelligence of any parties that may be coming to war — the Militia are greatly in want of Arms and ammunition, I have been oblig'd to get a Quarter bark of Powder and one hundred weight of lead for their use from Elliott and Williams. &. I am &.
Signed Presley Nevil
[True Extract
[undecipherable] Brady jun.
[undecipherable] True [undecipherable] Copy of the Extract
A. J. Dallas.
War. Depart. Secretary
Mar. 28. 1791]
Type
Extract of Letter
Description
Presley Nevill notifies Major General Richard Butler that he had sent a cask of powder and lead for the militia due to their want of ammunition. The militia are to scout the Virginia frontier for Indians that injured settlers.
Date
03/19/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1791031990001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Richard Butler
Presely Nevile
savages
Indians
Indian Nation
hostiles
settlers
scouts
militia
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
frontier
Virginia
settlement
Beaver Creek
Raccoon Creek

