Delivery of Money, Clothing, Arms, Powder, and Lead
Document 1793Sends $2500 for public use in Quarter Master's Department. Provides guidance for drawing future sums. Reports on delivery of clothing, arms, powder, lead.
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Philadelphia July 19 [undecipherable]
Sir
By order of the Secretary [undecipherable] I herewith send to you
[undecipherable] twenty five hundred Dollars
for Public use in the [undecipherable] Masters Department
[undecipherable] Shape it will go safe[ly] to
hand and prove a [undecipherable] serviceable [undecipherable]
By a Letter received from th[e] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] some day last I am informed
that you are, or will be authorized
to draw on me for such sums of
Money as may be necessary to defray
the expenses of his Department at
Pittsburgh; you will receive this [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] directions must be accompanied
with estimates, the [undecipherable] System
makes this indispensible — and this
[undecipherable] advised I am sure [undecipherable: very] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Sends $2500 for public use in Quarter Master's Department. Provides guidance for drawing future sums. Reports on delivery of clothing, arms, powder, lead.
Date
07/05/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1793070536101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
Henry Knox
Quartermasters Department
Treasury
cavalry
infantry
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Notable items
public use
supply
expenses
requisitions
estimates
treasury system
cavalry clothing
clothing
arms
powder
lead
essential articles

