Request for Relief or Winter Clothing and Construction

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Notification that the term of active duty for Joseph McCutcheon and the men under his command will expire in January, and wish to be relieved or furnished with winter clothing as none of the men at Fort Le Boeuf have appropriate uniforms for the upcoming season. Discussed expenditures for new buildings being erected under Colonel Butler.

Date

10/16/1795

Sent from

Pittsburgh

Document number

1795101654002

Page start

1

Notable persons

Timothy Pickering
Isaac Craig
commissary general
Ensign Joseph McCutcheon
General Irvine
Ellicot
Quartermaster General
Colonel Butler
Quartermasters Department
Captain Bissell
recruits

Notable locations

Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Fort Le Boeuf
Le Boeuf
Fort Franklin
upper posts of the Ohio
Ohio river
frontier
territory
Presque Isle
Presque'isle
Pennsylvania

Notable items

winter clothing
cloathing
blankets
shoes
shirts
round jackets
trousers
abstract
return
stores
expenditures
general return of stores
abstract of disbursements
recruiting