Enclosed Money for Quartermaster's Department
Document 1793Enclosed money for Quartermaster's Department by order of Sec. of War. Details on shipping clothing and equipment for artillery and cavalry.
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Philadelphia 16 Augt 1793
Sir
I am favoured with yours of the 2 instant — With this you will receive Five thousand Dollars ordred on by the Secretary of War for the Support of the Quarter Masters department at your Post — Bag No 23 containing Cavalry equipments you must have received soon after you wrote, as it went forward by Valentine Pancake on the O'nttimo — I am made happy in finding that the Artillery Clothing and that for the Cavalry had vessels arrived and was again shipping for its ultimate destination —
Enclosed you have the Invoice for the Clothing forwarded for the 2d Sub Legion — The Q. M. A will follow with all possible dispatch — The wines you request shall be forwarded from and if a kind fit for your own and friends enjoyment — A few packages of the Rifle Clothing mentioned in the enclosed Invoice yet remain in Store but they will be loaded this evening and tomorrow, and you will calculate their arrival accordingly —
I am
Sir
your most Obedient Servant
Samuel [Hodgdon]
Major Isaac Craig
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed money for Quartermaster's Department by order of Sec. of War. Details on shipping clothing and equipment for artillery and cavalry.
Date
08/16/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1793081636001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Knox, 08/23/1793; Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 08/23/1793.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
Henry Knox
Quartermasters Department
Valentine Pancake
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
five thousand dollars
hogshead
cavalry equipment
artillery clothing
supping
invoice
wine
clothing

