Goods and Invoices
Document 1795Forwards invoices and returns and summarizes the state of the stores, particularly goods intended for Indian tribes.
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Pittsburg 10th July 1795
Sir
Herewith is enclosed an Invoice of Stores sent to Fort Washington on the 7th Instant in Charge of Lieut. Horrette, being the whole of the Indian Goods that had then arrived together with some others since the departure of Lieut Polhemus on the 24th Ultimo.
A Return of Quarter Master & Ordnance Stores & Provision in Possession of the
Officers of the State of Pennsylvania at Cape-waga & Le Bœuf on the 4th Instant is enclosed Accompanied by an Invoice of Provision &c. Intended to be forwarded to Fort Franklin on the 4th Instant I apprehend after for the intended Post at Presqu Isle. And Yesterday I sent forward by land under escort of Capt. [undecipherable] detachment twelve Pack horse loads of Flour, ten Barrels & one pair of working Oxen for further supply will be forwarded in a few days. The Quarter Master General set off for Fort Washington on board a light Boat on the 7th previous to his departure I consulted him with respect to the Goods then on hand. I got on the way from Philadelphia intended for the Chocsaw Indians, & it was his Opinion that it would be most proper to retain the Articles then on hand until the whole arrived & then forward them directly to Nashville on board a light Boat, but notwithstanding his Opinion he directed me to apply to you Sir for Instructions respecting this business. A return of the several Articles that appear intended for the Choctaws, is also enclosed. That part of those Goods that have been forwarded
in Charge of Anthony Jostin & those since received & now on hand will also appear.
By a small Boat from Fort Washington this moment arrived I received a Packet enclosing one addressed to you which is now herewith transmitted.
I am
Sir your Obedient
Humble Servant
Honble Isaac Craig
Timothy Pickering
Secretary of War
Description
Forwards invoices and returns and summarizes the state of the stores, particularly goods intended for Indian tribes.
Date
07/10/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1795071054001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Isaac Craig
Lieutenant Sterrett
Lieutenant Polhemus
Officer of the State of Pennsylvania
Captain Bissel
Captain Bissell
James O'Hara
Quarter Master General
Chickasaw Indians
Anthony Foster
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Fort Washington
Cussewaga
LeBeouf
Fort Franklin
Presque Isle
Nashville
Notable items
invoice of stores
Indian goods
return of stores
Quarter Master's stores
ordnance stores
invoice of provision
artificers tools
post
pack horses
flour
oxen
light boat
goods
articles
packet

