Dispatch about Food for Animals at Various Posts
Document 1792Refers to dispatches about horses and oxen. Reports that the Commander in Chief has ordered 50 bushels oats and corn in addition to previous orders. Lists requests of General Wilkinson and Brigadier General Rudolph. Encloses list of regulations.
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War Quarters Pittsburgh Octo 1st 1792
Your dispatches by [undecipherable] are this moment come to hand with yours of the 21 and 27th [Septr?].
Your information respecting the Form and ceremony [undecipherable] to all [undecipherable] the principle of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] inform'd you [undecipherable] is greater than you had [undecipherable] The commission or thing has certainly expir'd — After the trouble taken to [undecipherable] in addition to the [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] forty five [undecipherable] — the officers [undecipherable] General Gentleman will send a letter in [undecipherable] all in order relative to the [undecipherable] Quarter Department report the aid [undecipherable] complied with.
I enclose [undecipherable] thirty thousand [undecipherable] for this Country, [undecipherable] is better and Come [undecipherable] Dollar and [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] promises [undecipherable] in blank [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] from the Bills.
The Major [undecipherable] will come a copy of this and [undecipherable] one Thousand Dollars — you will [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] from the Bank, you expect a large [undecipherable] as short time.
I do not expect to have the pleasure of seeing you this winter, you will therefore make such alterations as you may think proper in the Department.
I trust you have a copy of our Regulations which you would please to observe.
I am for your [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]
James O'Hara [undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Refers to dispatches about horses and oxen. Reports that the Commander in Chief has ordered 50 bushels oats and corn in addition to previous orders. Lists requests of General Wilkinson and Brigadier General Rudolph. Encloses list of regulations.
Date
10/17/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792101790001
Page start
8
Note
Enclosed in O'Hara to Knox, 02/01/1793.
Notable persons
John Belli
James O'Hara
General Wilkinson
Brigadier General Rudolph
Commander in Chief
Major Rudolph
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Fort Jefferson
Quartermaster Department
Kentucky
Headquarters
Notable items
horses
oxen
forage
bushels
oats
corn
stores
cash
gold
