Establishing the Post at Presqu' Isle
Document 1795Governor Mifflin provides his instructions for the establishment of the post at Presque Isle.
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Schedule of Officers.
I. To the Company to garrison Fort Detroit and Sandusky.
Captain George Dorsey
Lieutenant[s]
Ensign
II. To [undecipherable]. 1 [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] —
Lieutenant
Ensign
III. The Commissioners appointed by the [undecipherable] to lay out the [Lands?]
Major General William Irvine
Andrew [undecipherable] Esq.
IV. The Engineer appointed by the United States to superintend
the posts and [sites?] of [Survey?] [route?]
Colonel [undecipherable: Rochefontaine?]
V. [undecipherable] to [Quarter?] General —
Col. Clement Biddle
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Copy of a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania to [undecipherable] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Henry [undecipherable] in Philadelphia 1st April 1791
Gentlemen!
[undecipherable: There's ever your] [undecipherable] care of the [undecipherable] and having made the necessary arrangements, as far as depends on me, for carrying into effect [the act?] of [undecipherable], am most [undecipherable] for laying out and establishing [undecipherable] and out lots within the several tracts of land hereafter reserved for in the uses indicated respectively as [undecipherable] lots, on Lake Erie, at the mouth of French Creek, at the mouth of [Conewango?] Creek and at Fort Le Boeuf; [copies?] of which have been already communicated to you. It only remains to add after general [undecipherable] directory to the execution of the trust imposed on you —
1. You will [please?] to proceed with all possible dispatch to [Pittsburgh?] as [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to the several places at which the surveys [directed?] by the act of [Assembly?] [undecipherable] place, in the most direct [undecipherable] to the Public and most commodious to yourselves.
2. A Detachment from the garrison at Fort Le Boeuf, consisting [undecipherable] men [undecipherable] as [undecipherable], are directed to rendezvous at Pittsburgh [undecipherable] before [undecipherable], first day of June next, [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] as your [undecipherable] and to be subject to your orders. They may occasionally [undecipherable] as [laborers?], upon an allowance of Extra [undecipherable]. And [undecipherable] in this and the other ministerial operations of the Service, that [undecipherable] economy shall be observed.
3. Before you proceed to lay out the lots after particularly [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of the United States, you will please to go [undecipherable], at the [same?] time, [undecipherable] for doing so; to the Engineer whom the [undecipherable] is directed to superintend the [erection?] of [undecipherable] at that place; and in all things respecting the locations of these lots, you will conform as far as is Consistent with the act of Assembly [undecipherable] and desire of such Engineer —
4. The Supplies of [Provisions?] and stores for the use of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and your [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] furnished [undecipherable]
The [undecipherable] of Colonel Clement Biddle, the [undecipherable] to the [Quarter?] General of [Pennsylvania?] and should you at any time stand in need of any further [undecipherable], also you will [address?] to [undecipherable], am [able?] [undecipherable] him to that purpose, to Captain Dorsey, who will [command?] [undecipherable] other that at Presque [Isle?] [Morganto?] —
Confiding, Gentlemen, in your abilities and [experience?] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] all the [undecipherable] by the act of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] entrusted by You — [undecipherable] that you are [undecipherable] in [accompanying?] the [officers?] [undecipherable] with my [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable] —
I am with great Esteem, Gentlemen
Your most Ob'd. Serv'd.
[signed] Thomas Mifflin
To Major General William Irvine [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Stanley?] [undecipherable]
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Governor Mifflin provides his instructions for the establishment of the post at Presque Isle.
Date
04/28/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1795042890001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
William Irvine
Thomas Mifflin
engineer whom the President [Washington] shall appoint
Colonel Clement Biddle, Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania
Captain Denny
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Presqu' Isle on Lake Erie
mouth of French Creek
mouth of Conewango Creek
Fort Le Boeuf
Pittsburgh
Notable items
general instructions
allowance of extra rations
lots at Presque Isle
Act of the Assembly
supplies of provisions
your escort
military aid

