Account Updates, Payment Due Spies
Document 1796Enclosed rolls for Marietta, Belmie, Waterford, and Gablepoles. Request for pay to be forwarded. Spies were employed on the frontier, dealing with friendly Indians who were flocking in to trade. Sproat apprehensive that some "wild hunting people" might insult the Indians with injurious consequences to the public and fatal results for valuable frontier colonists.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed rolls for Marietta, Belmie, Waterford, and Gablepoles. Request for pay to be forwarded. Spies were employed on the frontier, dealing with friendly Indians who were flocking in to trade. Sproat apprehensive that some "wild hunting people" might insult the Indians with injurious consequences to the public and fatal results for valuable frontier colonists.
Date
04/09/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Marietta
Repository
Document number
1796040970101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Sproat 04/30/1796
Notable persons
William Simmons
Ebenezer Sproat
spies
frontier colonists
wild hunting people
Indians
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Marietta
Belmie
Waterford
Gablepoles
frontier
Notable items
trade
accounts
vouchers
rolls