Payments
Document 1792Lists various payments made, promised receipts. Wayne satisfied with powder, much stronger than previous orders.
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Pittsburgh 28th Feby 1792
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Sir,
I have Received your favor of the 6th Instant — Have herewith Inclos'd Return of Men — also posting to the date, our Shelter for them, making Bodily Returns of the Men that may have to leave —
Have advancin now and Ammunition to hep [undecipherable] them, for Eighty two Riflemen and they have [undecipherable] 6 [undecipherable] of Cannon Company —
But the thing most Interesting is the Eight Hundred Rgs of Gun Ammunition that should I have been a contribution to Brigt Wade, be pleas'd to forward to Mr Hartle four hundred dollars yet Remaining Intended for his Rifle and similar — I must Ingrace the Rifle Men and will planning with the [undecipherable] — We have made a great [undecipherable] with a Privat Boy's Manufacturing a very [undecipherable] that are [undecipherable] will to Still the Merchants of the plan Shapes it out from the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to them on a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —
I am Sir
[signature]
[marginalia: Brigt Genl Henry Knox]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Lists various payments made, promised receipts. Wayne satisfied with powder, much stronger than previous orders.
Date
07/20/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1792072054001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Knox to Craig, 07/27/1792.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Isaac Craig
Anthony Wayne
Captain William Faulkner
riflement
Captain Springer's company
Captain Springer
Captain Cummings
Joseph Howell
Captain Louder
Captain Biggs
General Anthony Wayne
Colonel Biddle
militia
merchants
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Notable items
powder
return of stores
weekly returns
arms and accoutrements
receipt
powder proof
