Rice Instead of Coffee, Etc.
Document 1795In addition to mentioning his travels to Fort Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Presq'isle, Craig acknowledges receipt of a number of sums from Hodgdon. Several wagons of hospital goods have arrived but there are some discrepancies in that one barrel labeled "coffee" contained rice while the weights of several casks of spirits are mistaken. He wants to know whether appropriations have been made to furnish medicine and hostpital strores to the upper posts of the Ohio.
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In addition to mentioning his travels to Fort Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Presq'isle, Craig acknowledges receipt of a number of sums from Hodgdon. Several wagons of hospital goods have arrived but there are some discrepancies in that one barrel labeled "coffee" contained rice while the weights of several casks of spirits are mistaken. He wants to know whether appropriations have been made to furnish medicine and hostpital strores to the upper posts of the Ohio.
Date
10/16/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1795101680002
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburg