Insufficient Money Delivered
Document 1793Money sent was not enough to discharge all debt at Quartermaster's Department in Pittsburgh. List of remaining balances. Indian accounts transmitted.
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Pittsburg 28th June 1793
Sir,
Your favour of the 22 Inst I have received. The five Thousand dollars received [from?] Post falls far short of discharging the amount against the Quarter Master depart[ment] at this place. Several large accounts for Forage is still unpaid; Pay of Boatmen Boat Builders Carpenters Blacksmiths [and] others that Necessarily Paid at this post together with Materials purchased here Will amount to five thousand dollars in addition to the five Thousand received by last post, that Sum I expected the — The Quarter Master General would have furnished me with an Order that any Acct may be brought up to the first of [Next] Month but as the Quarter Master General has not had an Opportunity of making a Remittance I have most earnestly to Request that that Sum may be Remitted me as soon as Possible. [undecipherable] and yet arrived, he has however Determined to Set off this Evening, at wait at [Fort] Washington for it — the Charges against the [undecipherable] for Board &c of this Indian [undecipherable]
and [undecipherable] with your Instruction, I can in [undecipherable] in favor of General Gibson by whom I shall [undecipherable] this Indian Acct. —
I have herewith inclosed an Account of [the] Business [since] last Post —
General St Clair is hourly Expected on his way to Fort Washington, a Boat is ready for him —
The River Continues Remarkably high for the Season —
I have inclosed a Packet just arrived from Fort Washington —
I am Sir
your Most Obet
Humble Servt
Isaac Craig —
[To:
Major General Henry Knox
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Money sent was not enough to discharge all debt at Quartermaster's Department in Pittsburgh. List of remaining balances. Indian accounts transmitted.
Date
06/28/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1793062854001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Knox to Craig, 07/05/1793.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Isaac Craig
Indians
Quartermasters Department
boatmen
boat builders
carpenters
blacksmiths
Quartermaster General
Captain Prior
General Gibson
General Arthur St. Clair
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Fort Washington
Notable items
discharging the accounts
forage
several large amounts
pay
materials
remittance
baggage
charges
bond
Indian accounts
invoice
stores
boat
river
packet

