Bags of $1000 Each
Document 1794[Partially illegible] Hodgdon is directed to have the first $15,000 bundled into bags of $1000 each and sent as soon as possible. The balance of the estimated $106,000, with the additional $5,000 for the purchase of cavalry horses, should be prepared in specie and forwarded in July.
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[undecipherable] May 17th 1794.
[No. 1 / Nov. 2 / R.P.C. 401810]
[1st]
Inclosed you have Coppy of a letter addressed to the Secretary of War [and] you will, [undecipherable] pray the necessary attention. the first fifteen Thousand Dollars remitted you will please to have put up in bags, 1000. each and Sent on as soon as possible, as I Sha[ll] [undecipherable] no other [w]ay at Pittsburgh, tha[n] [on] receipt of it. the Balance of the E[s]timate of 106,000 [undecipherable] with the addit[ion] [undecipherable] for the [h]orses of Cavalry Hor[s]es, you will have prepared in specie. to forward early in July —
I set off [undecipherable] now and Shall [undecipherable] to hea[r] [from] you. by every [undecipherable] opportunity —
I am Sir
Your most Humb[le Servant]
S[amue]l Hodgdon Esqr James O'Hara
Quarter Master Genrl
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
[Partially illegible] Hodgdon is directed to have the first $15,000 bundled into bags of $1000 each and sent as soon as possible. The balance of the estimated $106,000, with the additional $5,000 for the purchase of cavalry horses, should be prepared in specie and forwarded in July.
Date
05/17/1794
Author
Recipient
Document number
1794051740002
Page start
5
Note
Enclosure: letter, James O'Hara to Henry Knox, 05/17/1794.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James O'Hara
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Notable items
receipt

