Hodgdon discusses military stores with Secretary Pickering
Document 1796Samuel Hodgdon discusses the pay and compensation of Major Isaac Craig with the Secretary at War, Timothy Pickering.
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Phila April 11th 1796 —
Sir,
Major Craig has received pay and emoluments as Deputy Quarter Master General from the fifteenth of February 1791 to the first day of January 1793 at the rate of Eighty Dollars and [undecipherable] Cents per month. The sum proposed as additional salary does [undecipherable] to cover to Eleven hundred and [undecipherable] Dollars in [undecipherable] that period. From the first January last his pay as fixed by law will be one hundred per month Viz; fifty Dollars a month in each of the Departments of Quarter Master and Commissariate, and this he is content to receive as full compensation for all his services [except?] that of Pay Master while he continues in his present Situation —
yours respectfully
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering Esq.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Samuel Hodgdon discusses the pay and compensation of Major Isaac Craig with the Secretary at War, Timothy Pickering.
Date
04/11/1796
Author
Recipient
Repository
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Document number
1796041136001
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig

