Pay, Subsistence, and Forage for General Wayne's Troops
Document 1794Funds have been transmitted to Caleb Swan for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the troops under General Wayne and for the Kentucky volunteers and the troops at Fort Pitt.
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W. D. Accountants Office
August 21st 1794
Sir
I have transmitted, by Major Thomas Fisher Asst. W. Genl. the sum of Seventy thousand and seventy two dollars — Sixty eight thousand two hundred and thirty dollars are in post notes of the Bank of the [undecipherable] drawn in favor of Caleb Swan, Paymaster to the Troops being for the pay, subsistence and forage of the Troops under General Wayne for the Month of August and for pay on account of the Kentucky Volunteers, the residue being one thousand eight hundred and forty two dollars are in Current Notes, a Schedule of which is inclosed — this latter sum is for the pay, subsistence and forage of the Troops at Fort Pit and its dependencies for the same Month and includes the pay and subsistence of Capt. Heth's detachment from the 1st January last to 1st September next —
I have placed into the hands of the same
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Funds have been transmitted to Caleb Swan for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the troops under General Wayne and for the Kentucky volunteers and the troops at Fort Pitt.
Date
08/21/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1794082121255
Page start
273
Notable persons
Lt. Col. Thomas Butler
Joseph Howell
Notable locations
Fort Pitt
Accountant's Office

