Bayer Dismissed
Document 1791Due to undesirable practices, Bayer dismissed. Hodgdon asked Craig to take responsibility for his safety. Complaints of stores not matching invoices noted.
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[No.] 32 — Fort Washington [undecipherable: Septr] 91
[Finding/Pending] Boyer's [undecipherable: prosecutions] contin[ue], I have thought it out [fit] to [remit] him, and I have availed my self of this conveyance to send him on his way home — I have now to request that you would take him under your immediate direction, and furnish him as you [undecipherable: prefer], and forward him to Philadelphia — take his receipt for the expenses and I will account for them — I expect he will go with some returning Waggons and that of course his expenses will be but Small —
but if that should not be the case and he [be] obliged to go in any other way, I suppose ten dollars will be equal to his wants, but this and the mode altogether I leave to your management — But I pray you to attend to him and get him on as cheap and as comfortable as you can — he is an unfortunate man —
I am doing all in my power to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] here — every thing was in the almost confusion — many complaints that the stores received from Pittsburgh [undecipherable] not agree with the invoices — [undecipherable] many the complaints — [undecipherable] and forward my Letters
You may have for me as opportunities present, and forward such as go from me by the States Posts — adieu —
I am
Sir
Your Most Obedient Servant
[undecipherable]
The Letters to General
[undecipherable] you will send
on without one moments
delay —
[undecipherable] Major Craig —
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Due to undesirable practices, Bayer dismissed. Hodgdon asked Craig to take responsibility for his safety. Complaints of stores not matching invoices noted.
Date
09/18/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Washington
Collection
Document number
1791091836001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Bayer
General Knox
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Notable items
dismiss
wagons
expenses
stores
invoices

