Clothing Delivered to Fort Washington, Etc.
Document 1791Craig gives account of clothing delivered to Fort Washington. Craig also discusses issues regarding powder, horses, and river piloting.
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Fort Pitt 5 [undecipherable]ber 1794
Dear Sir
I am very happy in the [undecipherable] you give of [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and let [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] feel [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them are [undecipherable: detained] by want of Water to float them to [undecipherable: Pittsburgh]. An Order [undecipherable] to [undecipherable: transport] Capt [undecipherable]'s detachment, if [undecipherable] been under the [undecipherable: necessity] of [undecipherable: applying] to Gen'l [undecipherable] for a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he was as [undecipherable: obliging] as his letter to Col. [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] he will [undecipherable] him an [undecipherable] the same [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as soon as [undecipherable] — That together with [undecipherable] also a [undecipherable] for Capt [undecipherable] — let [undecipherable] a very any considerable [undecipherable: quantity] of [undecipherable: Iron] in addition — these there are [undecipherable] by no [undecipherable] less of them [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] — my own [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that there are 30 [undecipherable] [undecipherable: pounds] that [undecipherable] have lately come to [undecipherable: hand] but [undecipherable] it must be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it may be of [undecipherable] — as a [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — All [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] will allow you the Packet [undecipherable: brought] by [undecipherable] together with [undecipherable: Pittsburgh] Papers — [undecipherable] has [undecipherable: returned] the [undecipherable] — since [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] has been [undecipherable: brought] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: Philadelphia] — [undecipherable] has [undecipherable: proved] his [undecipherable: ability] — [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] against [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] — his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] claim[undecipherable] any [undecipherable] he is the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he might to be [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] in some [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] — General [undecipherable: Washington] is some [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: arrival] as [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] from the present [undecipherable: appearance] of the [undecipherable] —
[undecipherable] Capt [undecipherable] he has [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Craig gives account of clothing delivered to Fort Washington. Craig also discusses issues regarding powder, horses, and river piloting.
Date
09/03/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Pitt
Repository
Collection
Document number
1791090380001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Captain Buell
Captain Newman
Mr. Swan
General Nevill
Barry Cumings
Henry Knox
Secretary War
War Department
Notable locations
Fort Pitt
Philadelphia
Ohio River
Ohio

