Accounting for Military Clothing
Document 1795Secretary Pickering instructs Meigs on the arrival and distribution of army clothing.
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[undecipherable: probable reading: A [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] July 1795]
War Office July [undecipherable] 1795
I formerly mentioned to you that the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] between [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to send it to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [undecipherable: probable reading: forms] in which the accounts of army clothing are kept [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Mr [undecipherable]'s Books. He informs me that every article appears in the forms, a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] them for all [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] then [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] of every [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the quarter [undecipherable] to those [undecipherable: probable reading: credits] ought to balance the [undecipherable: probable reading: accounts] for [undecipherable] period. The Heading of his forms appear to be the reverse [undecipherable: probable reading: of the method] of making "The United States [undecipherable] to Clothing" I take it, you will made Clothing Dr to the U States for all you receive. [undecipherable]
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[undecipherable] J Meigs
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable: probable reading: Timothy Pickering]
July 4 [undecipherable]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Secretary Pickering instructs Meigs on the arrival and distribution of army clothing.
Date
07/18/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795071800001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Return Meigs
Timothy Pickering
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
Notable locations
War Office
Pittsburgh
Notable items
clothing
uniforms
forms

