Letter from Pittsburgh
Document 1797Regarding supplies and expenditures.
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Pittsburgh 4th [undecipherable]
Sir
I have now to advise you of [undecipherable: these bills]
I have drawn on you for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]:
[undecipherable] in favor [undecipherable] eight[undecipherable]
and in favor of [undecipherable], Eight [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] dated 29 [undecipherable] 177[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in favor of Col. Freeman, fourteen [undecipherable] at 8 days
[undecipherable] for to [undecipherable] dated [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in favor of Col. [undecipherable: Norris?] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for [undecipherable] dated [9th?] March [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: Please] instruct[undecipherable] my deput[undecipherable] at this [undecipherable]
Major [undecipherable] Francis to forward his [undecipherable: account] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for this, [undecipherable] — The Army
[undecipherable] will be charged to the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Major Francis [undecipherable] as [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] as it may be required, [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] &c for the same my [undecipherable].
[undecipherable: Your obedient servant]
[undecipherable]
Samuel Hodgson Esqr
Ph[ila] P[a]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Regarding supplies and expenditures.
Date
05/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1797050480101
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one without images.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins
Major Craig
Quartermaster General
army
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Notable items
estimates
expenditures

