Enclosed Accounts Current with Request for Information on Supplying Troops
Document 1796Accounts current enclosed, Simmons requested to be notified if troops need to be supplied.
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[4th June 1796
to
Wm Simmons Esq
Acct War Depar[tmen]t
with a/c]
Philadelphia 4th June 1796
Sir
I take the liberty to enclose my Acct Current with the United States for services rendered & for moneys received & expended as particularly therein noted: & which can be supported by receipts & entries of [undecipherable]
Should any other Statement or Statements be [undecipherable: required] or [undecipherable], I pray you to be so Obliging as to favor me with a form or forms — as I am much pressed for time to make the necessary arrangements for the supply of the troops & for their distribution
I expect to take my departure on Monday morning on the [undecipherable] — I am with respect & Esteem
Your Most Obt
[undecipherable]
[signature]
Dr The United States in account
1792
1st [undecipherable] June To cash paid for support of a detachment of Dragoons from Phila[delphia] to Pittsburgh Dolls Cts
102 40
To cash paid sundry persons employed as emissaries, messengers & ct to gain intelligence & to bring [undecipherable] Indians to treat from [undecipherable] July 1792 [until?] Feb[ruary] 1795 [undecipherable] 2781 [undecipherable]
1794 To the established compensation as will Commissioner to treat with all [undecipherable] near the Ohio as ap[point]ed [from] the 4th April 1794 until 20 [Sept.]
1795 [undecipherable: 534] days a Dollar [undecipherable] p[er] diem 4272 [undecipherable]
To extra expenses on this occasion
To 53 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 424 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] To cash paid for subsistence of a
Detachment of Dragoons [undecipherable] during
the above [undecipherable] period in [undecipherable] 626 5
1792
[undecipherable] May To cash paid for postage of public
[28] May letters [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] & sundry
1796 [undecipherable] & to sundry [undecipherable] 100 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] To cash advanced to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 40 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 73456 [undecipherable]
with Major General Wayne Cr
1792
May By cash rec'd for Indian Contingencies 3000 [undecipherable]
1794 By do c[ast?] [undecipherable] others 1000 [undecipherable]
By certain supplies of [groceries?] &c
at time of treating with the Indians —
say four hundred dollars
[undecipherable]
Balance Due 5065 11
I certify that the amount of [these] sums charged to the contingent [funds] of the [Military] [of] the War Department [undecipherable] for contingencies as mentioned in this account have fully & faithfully been made & paid, under the authority [undecipherable] by and in behalf of the United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] fully in me [undecipherable] by his Excellency the [War] Department [undecipherable]
And I further certify [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] for my actual services as sole Commissioner to treat with the Indians [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] thousand [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: undecipherable] on [various] occasions [undecipherable] [was not compensated for these] extra [undecipherable] — that Indians, and [undecipherable] — And [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [charged] — Opinion: that the United States will acquire at least three Millions [of] Dollars from the [extra] cession of Territory [undecipherable] by that treaty — which [far exceeds] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: most solemnly] depose Contented or [effected] by the [undecipherable] [accounts] of the [American] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The most of which are among the papers in the Office of the War Department
[signature] A.W. Wayne
Philadelphia
4th June 1796
N.B. Since the date of the above [proposals] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] One hundred and two Dollars [undecipherable] in [the] support of Dragoons to Pittsburgh in 1792; subsistence [undecipherable] of Dragoons from the 4th [undecipherable] 1795 to 6th [March] 1796 — and four Hundred Dollars for postage — [total] 828 [undecipherable] 45 Cts & Three thousand Dollars for Indian Contingencies to be accounted for
The [balance] for [other expenses] on [account] of the Indians [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Hundred Dollars — [undecipherable] [supplies] for them I say [undecipherable] hundred Dollars which [proves] [undecipherable] [amount] [most just] [undecipherable] [directly] [applied] [to] [undecipherable] [Territory] [undecipherable]
10th June 1796 [signature] A.W. Wayne
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Accounts current enclosed, Simmons requested to be notified if troops need to be supplied.
Date
06/04/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796060470001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Simmons
Anthony Wayne
Notable locations
Philadelphia

