Requesting Reply on Acceptance of Promotion to Commissary General

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Type

Extract of Letter

Description

Asks for decision on Commissary General offer with orders to appoint deputy at Fort Pitt. Extracts of letters copied by Craig's son in 1828.

Date

11/29/1794

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Isaac Craig

Sent from

War Department

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Correspondence, Reports, Returns, Bills, Accounts Current' Statements, Receipts, Vouchers and Contracts of Philadelphia Supply Agencies (Coxe And

Document number

1794112914066

Page start

2

Note

In 1828 Isaac Craig's son Neville B. Craig prepared a three-page list of extracts of his father's correspondence with the War Office. This document was one of those.

Notable persons

Isaac Craig
Henry Knox
General Wayne
Commissary General
Deputy
Secretary of War
Deputy Quartermaster General
Major Abraham Kirkpatrick
John Stagg
Secretary of Treasury
Colonel Timothy Pickering
Neville B. Craig
father

Notable locations

War Department
Ohio River
Fort Pitt, upper parts of the Ohio

Notable items

appointment
compensation
inadequate pay
non acceptance