Funds for the Use of the Recruiting Service
Document 1794$2,000 is remitted for the use of the recruiting service at Pittsburgh but if Butler's former accounts remain unsettled a new book will be opened for the present transactions.
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expenses and in case of a signature not being written it must be witnessed by a Commissary officer or some other person of known responsibility. — On the settlement of your recruiting accounts authentic Muster Rolls of the recruits must be produced which will be received as evidence of their having been duly enlisted and mustered. — For the due execution of these instructions you will be held responsible, consequently on settlement with this Office you will not admit of any deviations. — I enclose forms of a recruiting account and of Muster rolls of a Company and a detachment. —
Lt Col Ro. Butler I am Sir &c
Commandant Fort Fayette Joseph Howell
Pittsburgh
W.D. Accountants Office
October 20th 1794
Sir
Mr Samuel Hodgdon will remit you two thousand dollars being for the use of the recruiting service, for which you will please to receipt to be accountable agreeably to instructions.
As your former account remains unsettled I shall open a new acct for you in my books for the present transactions and it will be proper
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
$2,000 is remitted for the use of the recruiting service at Pittsburgh but if Butler's former accounts remain unsettled a new book will be opened for the present transactions.
Date
10/30/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1794103121055
Page start
351
Note
Cited in Butler to Howell, 11/07/1794.
Notable persons
Lt. Col. Thomas Butler
Joseph Howell
Notable locations
Fort Fayette, Pittsburgh
Accountant's Office

