Delivery of Contracted Goods, Suppression of Insurgents
Document 1794Notification that Craig drew on Hodgdon in favor of contractors, and others to settle accounts. Noted militia successfully convinced "deluded multitude" that the army has enough strength to "chastise them when necessary." Several insurgents in confinement awaiting transport to Philadelphia for trial, other evaded capture. Request for more money to settle accounts and needs of garrisons added to the upper posts of the Ohio river.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Notification that Craig drew on Hodgdon in favor of contractors, and others to settle accounts. Noted militia successfully convinced "deluded multitude" that the army has enough strength to "chastise them when necessary." Several insurgents in confinement awaiting transport to Philadelphia for trial, other evaded capture. Request for more money to settle accounts and needs of garrisons added to the upper posts of the Ohio river.
Date
11/21/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1794112189001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Messrs Green & Meigs
Green
Meigs
John Arbuckle
express
courier
militia
insurgents
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Merrietta
Marietta
confinement
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
stores
camp
quarters
upper posts of the Ohio
Ohio River
Notable items
contract
bushels of corn
dollars
ordnance stores
camp equipage
accounts
fuel
forage
confinement
trial
quarters

