Regarding Funds & Expenditures for Quartermaster & Other Army Departments
Document 1796Further addresses the obtaining of funds and transportation required by the Army Quartermaster Department. Details why he has been unable to move on these issues without knowing more about the necessary items. Describes (by line-item) the expenditures of his department and the Army Indian Department. Promises further reports on the expenditures of the army departments.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Further addresses the obtaining of funds and transportation required by the Army Quartermaster Department. Details why he has been unable to move on these issues without knowing more about the necessary items. Describes (by line-item) the expenditures of his department and the Army Indian Department. Promises further reports on the expenditures of the army departments.
Date
08/20/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Detroit
Collection
Document number
1796082040101
Page start
1
Note
Partly illegible.
3 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, two without images.
Notable persons
James McHenry
John Wilkins Jr
Commander in Chief
General Wayne
Quartermasters Department
assistants
wagoners
artificers
pack horse men
boatsmen
Indian interpreters
pilots
Indian Department
Notable locations
Fort Detroit
Notable items
money
supply
expenditures
estimate
following reasons
accounts
provisions
pay
wagons
pack horses
vessels
barracks
teams
materials
repair of the garrisons
wages
subsistence
corn