Letters, Stores Forwarded, Request for a Cask of Sherry Wine
Document 1793Received sundry letters. Barrel of sugar for Colonel Sergeant will go forward. Mentions providing gears for the trumbels. Is sending forward stores and clothing. Asks for a cask of sherry wine that he would wish a friend to drink a little of.
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Pittsbgh 4th August 1793
Sir,
Your favor of the 5th Instant I have just Received together at a Packet for the Quarter Master General, and a letter for Coll. Bayard, which shall be sent forward by Lieut Pixley Tomorrow — the Barrel of Loaf Sugar for Coll. Bayard, shall go [undecipherable] and immediately after its Arrival — I Shall not neglect to have the Shoes that are coming in the [undecipherable: probable reading "Rumbles"], packed up and marked in the manner you direct —
I Shall provide Gear for the [undecipherable: probable reading "Rumbles"] at this Post and if I shall have them Ready by the time of their Arrival, in Order that we may not be charged with [undecipherable] forward, Articles, that are Incomplete — I am now Sending forward all the Stores and Clothing that have become to hand Since last [undecipherable] departure, the Several Packages of Artillery Clothing are all come to hand, agreeable to your general Invoice, but Hogshead No 23 of Cavalry Clothing must have been neglected in your Store House at loading the Waggons, as it dont appear in any of the Invoices, that have yet been Received by General Invoice, to [undecipherable] 16 Blankets, [undecipherable] Caps, [undecipherable] Shirts, [undecipherable] Cavalry Clothing that you [undecipherable] — I Shall henceforth send you Copy
of such Estimates as I Shall have Occasion to make; I am much obliged for your kind attention to my [undecipherable] Requests, and now have taken the liberty of Requesting you to Send me, a Quarter Cask of Sherry Wines, [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] you would oblige with a [undecipherable] to drink a little [undecipherable] — I expect by the Post at least, the Ballance that appears due of my Disbursements up to the 1st of July, the Quarter Master General [undecipherable] me, that I Shall find no difficulty in [undecipherable] Supp[undecipherable]
I am Sir
Your Most Obedt
Humt. Servt
Isaac Craig
Saml Hodgdon Esqr
Philadelphia
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Received sundry letters. Barrel of sugar for Colonel Sergeant will go forward. Mentions providing gears for the trumbels. Is sending forward stores and clothing. Asks for a cask of sherry wine that he would wish a friend to drink a little of.
Date
08/09/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1793080989004
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Quartermaster General
Colonel Serjeant
Colonel Sergeant
James O'Hara
Lieutenant Tinsley
Greer
Captain Pike
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Notable items
loaf sugar
shoes
trumbels
stores
clothing
invoice
hogshead
cavalry clothing
artillery clothing
wagons
store house
blankets
shirts
sherry wine
quarter cask
disbursements

