Request to Place Names on Invalid List
Document 1791Knox requested William Scott and John Witram to be placed on invalid list. Includes pay.
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[Administrative notation on cover: [undecipherable: probable reading "Lt"] from the Hon'ble Henry Knox requesting that William Scott & John Wetram May be put on the List of Invalids dated Sep.t 26 1791]
War Department
September 26 1791
Sir,
Please [undecipherable: probable reading "add"] to the [undecipherable: probable reading "list"] of Pensioned Sol[undecipherable: probable reading "diers"] [undecipherable] of the United States transmitted to you on the 3d of August last the two following Pers[undecipherable: probable reading "ons"] and to allow them their pensions By William Scott Co[undecipherable: probable reading "rporal"] [undecipherable] at the rate of [undecipherable] Dollars per month from the fourth of march one thousand seven hundred & eighty nine to the [undecipherable] of October one thousand seven hundred ninety one and John Wetram [undecipherable: probable reading "Private"] at the rate of [undecipherable] Dollars and fifty cents per month, from the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: probable reading "July"] to the fourth of September one thousand seven hundred ninety one.
You will also be pleased to deduct from said [undecipherable] Nathaniel Gore who was [undecipherable] at the rate of thirteen and [undecipherable: probable reading "one"] third Dollar per month, and who [undecipherable] transferred to the State of New York.)
I am
Sir.
Your most obed't Servant
[undecipherable: signature]
[undecipherable]
Thomas Smith Esqre
Commissioner of Loans
for the State of Pennsylvania
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Knox requested William Scott and John Witram to be placed on invalid list. Includes pay.
Date
09/26/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1791092600001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Thomas Smith
Henry Knox
William Scott
John Witram
invalid pensioners
invalids
Nathaniel Gove
Notable locations
War Department
New York
Pennsylvania
Notable items
list of invalids
