Craig discusses military stores and shipment with Hodgdon
Document 1793Major Craig requests of Samuel Hodgdon an account of monies remitted to the Quartermaster department. Craig thanks Hodgdon for sending wine via a careful waggoner.
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[Address leaf: Samuel Hodgdon Esqr / Philadelphia]
[Postal notations scattered on address leaf: 2/2, 2/7, 2/2]
[Bottom right notation, partially illegible: Pittsburg[h] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
Pittsburg 6th Decemr 1793
Dr Sir
Your letter of the 28th Ultimo enclosing a Packet [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Continuances [undecipherable]
have received at Coll[.] [undecipherable: Montours?] on [undecipherable] day and the Packet in
Charge of Capt [undecipherable] free to Head Quarters —
This days Post has brought Your letter of the 29th
Ultimo together with an Invoice of Major [undecipherable]s Baggage
[undecipherable] and a letter Addressed to Daniel [undecipherable: Brett?] which I have
this day Sent forward to Head Quarters —
I Shall attend to your instructions respecting
Major [undecipherable]s Baggage but I [undecipherable] You have been
in this time — I am greatly Obliged by your Sending the
Wine by Aber[undecipherable] Waggoner — The [undecipherable] mention[ed] [undecipherable]
ously has not yet arrived — A further Supply of Nails [undecipherable]
is immediately wanted —
Be Pleased to Send an Account of this Monies you
have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: Wish?] to have my Acct Compleated [undecipherable] before the End of
the Year
I am Sir
your
Most Obedt
Isaac Craig
[Samuel Hodgdon Esqr Philada]
[Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1904. R.P.O.401310.]
[Docket notation on verso: [undecipherable] Hodgdon / [undecipherable] Craig / [undecipherable] / dated 5th December 1793]
[Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1904. R.P.O.401310.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Major Craig requests of Samuel Hodgdon an account of monies remitted to the Quartermaster department. Craig thanks Hodgdon for sending wine via a careful waggoner.
Date
12/06/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1793120680001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburg

