Request for the provision of tents for the detachment under marching orders
Document 1792Delivered at the City Tavern to Major John Stagg and addressed as Public Service to War Office Philadelphia, Mills reports that there are no tents and asks for some common and horseman's tents to be sent on early the stage for the detachment under marching orders.
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[Public Service]
[Major John Stagg]
[War Office]
[Philadelphia]
[undecipherable]
[Letter from [undecipherable] June 30 [undecipherable]]
New[undecipherable] June 30th 1793 —
10 o'Clock AM
Sir,
I [undecipherable] that Clerks have not yet been sent forward for the Department under or acting order. Possibly you need eight or ten Clerks and one [undecipherable] — Not by the only [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of the Department will [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] — And as the [undecipherable] are now known to [undecipherable] — the sooner they [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] The Funds [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] on Saturday the [undecipherable] after they then be [undecipherable]
I remain with great Esteem Sir
Your Obt. [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
John [undecipherable]
M[undecipherable] Stagg
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Delivered at the City Tavern to Major John Stagg and addressed as Public Service to War Office Philadelphia, Mills reports that there are no tents and asks for some common and horseman's tents to be sent on early the stage for the detachment under marching orders.
Date
06/30/1792
Author
Recipient
Repository
Document number
1792063055001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Stagg
John Mills
War Office
War Department
Notable locations
Philadelphia, War Office
War Department
Notable items
horsemen's tents
common tents