Letter from James Morrow to Samuel Hodgdon on provisions and pay
Document 1792Morrow laments the lack of pay and provisions. Says he was informed that Captain O'Hara was to provide pay.
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Pittsburgh November 30th 1792
Sir
I Have Received your Letters of the 27 of October in Wich you Inform [me] that you Ment to Maike Provisions [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] that you [undecipherable] the Next Post. But as yet this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Nothing More [undecipherable] it Wich [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Hard on Us to Be[ar] With out our pay as We Have Nothing [undecipherable] to Defend [undecipherable] as soon as this Coms to Hand that [undecipherable] Matters [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Receive your [undecipherable] as I Will Be out of own power Be[undecipherable] With out it as w[e] [undecipherable] Nothing in this place with out [undecipherable] & as to the Articles that the Men [undecipherable] the air [undecipherable] Costed with theirs. I Was Informed that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was to pay is Wich Made [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Him as I Was a Stranger [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all Winter
I am your Most Obedient
James Morrow
Mr Samuel Hodgdon Esqr.
[undecipherable: address panel] Wm Samuel Hodgdon [undecipherable] Com[manding?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Morrow laments the lack of pay and provisions. Says he was informed that Captain O'Hara was to provide pay.
Date
11/30/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1792113080001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Morrow
Captain O'Hara
Commissary of Military Stores
War Department
Notable locations
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
War Department
Commissary of Military Stores
Notable items
pay
provisions

