Regarding Balances Due and Present Quarter Master General's Account
Document 1792Acknowledges receipt of letter enclosing money, which will release Craig from embarrassment. Discusses money being carried into the present Quarter Master General (O'Hara) account. Mentions Mr. Read's pay and St. Clair's stores.
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[undecipherable] Philadelphia 2d October 1792
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I have Received your letter of the 29 Ultimo <th> but not entering but thousand Dollars on Bank Notes which will to some degree Relieve me from Embarrassment, till a Return from some forward —
At the time I sent a Statement of the balance due my during Your administration, by some Conversation with Capt Abens, I By presume that the two thou and dollar Remitted by Mr Knox, was to be Carried into the present Quarter Master Generals Act — which was the Reason that sum was not Credited — one Reason that all the Vouchers have not been Sent, is, that Mr Read Expected you would have increased his pay as Clerk, for which purpose he Wrote to You on that Subject, but has not Received Your Answer — You Will please to Recollect that before your departure from this place — I handed you the [undecipherable] three Steven Receipts for Cash paid him for Carriage of Your [undecipherable] Plain Store, & one Steven of [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] proper Voucher can be Obtained, by throwing from his [undecipherable] Receipts, the Other Vouchers, I Shall forward by next Post — I am much Obliged to you for sending the [undecipherable] for family & [undecipherable]
I am Sir Your obt
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Acknowledges receipt of letter enclosing money, which will release Craig from embarrassment. Discusses money being carried into the present Quarter Master General (O'Hara) account. Mentions Mr. Read's pay and St. Clair's stores.
Date
10/12/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1792101289001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Captain O'Hara
Quartermaster General
Mr. Read
clerk
Michael Stevens
Governor St Clair
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
bank notes
statement of the balance due
quartermaster general's account
voucher
sugar

