Contingent accounts of Ensign Daniel Bissell
Document 1794Encloses voucher to contingent accounts of Ensign Daniel Bissell for keeping a public horses he received from Major Isaac Craig at Pittsburgh.
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W.D. Accountants Office
February 7th 1794
Sir
I inclose Copys of a Letter of this date from the Auditor of the Treasury to which I request your answer — in the mean time I must necessarily hold you accountable for the subsistence drawn on your account agreably to the tenor of the Auditors Letter.
I am Sir &c
Joseph Howell
Major Jno H. Buell
Head Quarters
of the Army.
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W.D. Accountants Office
February 7th 1794
Sir
I inclose a voucher to a contingent account of Indian Daniel Brisett for keeping a public horse which he States to have received of Major Isaac Craig in Pittsburgh. As I do not know on what authority the charge is founded and as it is not within the Idea of a contingent expense of the War Department, I refer it to you as properly belonging to the ex-
Type
Document Signed
Description
Encloses voucher to contingent accounts of Ensign Daniel Bissell for keeping a public horses he received from Major Isaac Craig at Pittsburgh.
Date
02/07/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Repository
Document number
1794020721155
Page start
26
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Joseph Howell
Ensign Daniel Bissell
Major Isaac Craig
quartermaster department
agent for Quartermaster General
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
Accountant's Office
Notable items
public horse
contingent accounts
voucher
expenses
