Opposing the Town at Presqu' Isle
Document 1795Pickering responds to Governor Mifflin's declaration that a town is needed at Presque Isle to provide a garrison for state troops to supplement the federal garrison at Fort Le Boeuf. He lists the reasons he opposes this action. He discusses the difficulty of manning both posts.
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Pickering responds to Governor Mifflin's declaration that a town is needed at Presque Isle to provide a garrison for state troops to supplement the federal garrison at Fort Le Boeuf. He lists the reasons he opposes this action. He discusses the difficulty of manning both posts.
Date
04/25/1795
Author
Recipient
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War Office
Collection
Document number
1795042500001
Page start
1
Note
Largely illegible.
Notable persons
Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania
Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War
Secretary of State [Edmund Randolph]
President [Washington]
Legislature of Pennsylvania
detachment of State troops
merchants
Colonel Biddle
Notable locations
War Office
town at Presque Isle
Virginia
Fort Le Boeuf
the Allegheny
French Creek
fort at Mud Island
federal artillery corps
Notable items
fortifications
pay
expiration of their enlistments
state commissary
General Government
Legion
transfers
Captain
Lieutenant
Ensign
protection
rations
militrary stores at Pittsburgh
state commissary
manifesto
Act of Pennsylvania
saw mill at Presque Isle