Suspend Preparations
Document 1791Orders to suspend preparations of accommodations for Capt. Mitt's and Capt. Cass's companies. They are ordered on different business and will not winter over at Fort Pitt.
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War Department,
December 1 1791.
Sir
I request you to suspend any preparations for the accommodation of Captain Bap— and Captain of Mills— companies at Fort Pitt, during the ensuing winter, as the [undecipherable] companies will be ordered on another Service —
I am Sir,
Your humble Servant
[signature]
P.S. If any dispatches then to arrive from Genl St Clair, during the absence of the post rider, you will immediately forward the same by an express —
[Mayor Craig]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Orders to suspend preparations of accommodations for Capt. Mitt's and Capt. Cass's companies. They are ordered on different business and will not winter over at Fort Pitt.
Date
12/01/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1791120114001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Henry Knox
Captain Cass
Captain Mitt
General St. Clair
Major Isaac Craig
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Pitt
Pittsburgh
accommodations
Notable items
winter over
accommodations
