Shoes & Blankets to be Forwarded to Pittsburgh, Etc.
Document 1796As ordered by the Secretary of War, the shoes and blankets at Shepherds Town will be transported to Pittsburgh, a journey that will consume 12 - 20 days. Langham requires the necessary monies to pay the expense of the carriage, baling, boxing, etc. Since the business at Shepherd's Town will be diminished by the approaching winter, he wants to travel to the Western Country to finish his business there.
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Shepherds Town Nov. 25th 1795
I have just rec'd yours of the 12th Inst
conveying an order from the Sec'y of War for
the Store of blankets at this post, and directing
me to forward them to Pittsburg, which shall
be immediately done.
You may calculate on their leaving
this place on Wednesday next, and that I will
take the waggons between 12 & 20 days to reach
Pittsburg.
It will be most convenient to [undecipherable] on
[undecipherable] for the Treasury money, [undecipherable] the extreme
bad carriage, [undecipherable] because I
cannot advance half the money at the [undecipherable]
out of the waggons, the [undecipherable] will [undecipherable]
the [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] here.
As soon as the waggons returns [they'll?]
[undecipherable] to you more [undecipherable] for in
[undecipherable] forwarded.
I expect the barracks at this post will
[undecipherable] be most [undecipherable] the coming winter & [undecipherable] to
[undecipherable] the Western Counties to furnish any [undecipherable]
that [undecipherable] I can obtain them. [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] your attention to the [undecipherable] will
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] me — [undecipherable] me to [undecipherable] this
[undecipherable] to make the [undecipherable] for me to be
[undecipherable] and inform me by the next [undecipherable].
I know nothing of the [undecipherable] buildings at
Harpers Ferry, how they go on [undecipherable]. I [undecipherable] and [undecipherable]
is all that public buildings are erecting there —
[undecipherable] hope wherever they are erected they will be well
proportioned, which is really a [undecipherable] that ought
to be attended to, [undecipherable] the barracks.
I am with respect
Your Ob't Servant
[undecipherable: Cunningham]
[undecipherable: Capt. Stephen?]
did you ever get my little [undecipherable] both my [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
As ordered by the Secretary of War, the shoes and blankets at Shepherds Town will be transported to Pittsburgh, a journey that will consume 12 - 20 days. Langham requires the necessary monies to pay the expense of the carriage, baling, boxing, etc. Since the business at Shepherd's Town will be diminished by the approaching winter, he wants to travel to the Western Country to finish his business there.
Date
11/25/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Shepherd's Town
Document number
1796112580001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Major Samuel Hodgdon
Elias Langham
Secretary of War James McHenry
Major Craig
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Shepherd's Town
Shepherdstown
Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
Western Country
Harper's Ferry
Notable items
order
shoes
blankets
wagons
waggons
monies
carriage
baling boxes
public buildings
unpillowed shoes

