Enclosed Muster, Inspection, and Provisions Information
Document 1794Supplies yet to arrive, lists required items, and action taken to acquire goods.
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Knoxville June 5th 1794.
Sir
Inclosed are the Muster Rolls, Inspection and Provision returns for the Present Month.
On the 2d instant, I received part of the Company cloathing, and a Medicine Chest. The remainder and most material part of the cloathing are yet at or near New London in Virginia. such as the [undecipherable] Vests, and the Sergeants and Musics cloathing.
I have engaged a Man of a good [undecipherable] to bring them on in Seven Weeks to be at this place— Forty seven pair of Linnen Overalls, Twenty two pair of Woollens, and six Blankets are unfit for service by being wet and putrid on the ground.
A considerable part of the Medicine has leaked out of the Bottles and no doubt to the [undecipherable] sent in the Medicine Chest.
I continue to file the Muster Rolls of the Militia in your Office as usual
I am Sir
with respect and esteem
Your Obt Servant
Wm Rickard
[Address: David Henley esquire / Agent of the War Department, / Territory S.W. of the Ohio / Philadelphia]
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[Private]
Colonel Hinly — June 5th 94
I want your directions respecting the Militia Muster Rolls of this place as well as a large bundle from Colonel Hayes of Cumberland received in April last —
My cloathing are detain[ed] on the road — & the troops have not less than eleven months pay due —
The militia about four or five hundred in number. Requested, partly demanded two mutineers confined in irons to be liberated — policy dictated my compliance — fine times — these mutineers were two Soldiers of my company who threted the life of Enst Davidson. McKee gave a few articles to some Indians which was the cause — This neuse is not wrote you in an official manner —
I am with respect
Your friend Wm Rickard
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Supplies yet to arrive, lists required items, and action taken to acquire goods.
Date
06/05/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1794060590001
Page start
1
Notable persons
David Henley
William Rickard
contractor
agent war department
Colonel Hayes
mutinous men
mutineer
soldiers
Ensign Davidson
Notable locations
Territory Southwest of Ohio River
Philadelphia
Knoxville
New London
Virginia
road
Tennessee
militia
Cumberland
Notable items
supplies
overalls
blankets
jackets
woolen
linen
clothing
muster rolls
inspections
returns
shirts
hatts
hats
vests
music's clothing
linen overalls
medicine
leakage
bottles
tube
elister pipe
medicine chest
confined in irons
mutiny

