Refund for New Jersey
Document 1795Treasury Department cannot reimburse New Jersey for the cost of recruiting and outfitting soldiers to fight the "Insurgents". Pickering believes a delay in payment would last only one month.
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War Office March 12. 1795.
Sir,
I have recived your letter of this date on the subject of the monies allowed by New-Jersey to her militia on the expedition against the Insurgents, which the United States are to refund; and am very sorry that the state of the Treasury at this moment is such as to oblige me to [undecipherable] indulge gence. This I hope will not be necessary for more than a month. If in that time Mr Mott will have the goodness to write me, I trust to be able to fix the day when the money
I am Sir
your most obedient Servant
Timothy Pickering
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Treasury Department cannot reimburse New Jersey for the cost of recruiting and outfitting soldiers to fight the "Insurgents". Pickering believes a delay in payment would last only one month.
Date
03/12/1795
Author
Recipient
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War Office
Collection
Document number
1795031200001
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Timothy Pickering
soldiers
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War Office
New Jersey
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pay