Major Craig discusses pay and accounting with William Simmons
Document 1797Major Craig forwards receipts along with pay and muster rolls to William Simmons. Craig mentions an outstanding pay account of an officer who has been imprisoned in Quebec.
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[Docket notation, written vertically on cover:]
Isaac Craig
No 2 [undecipherable] July
[undecipherable] January
letter
Pittsburg 14. July 1797.
Sir
You will find this accompanied by a Pay Roll of Captain Edward D. Turner's Company for April 1797 together with a Muster Roll taken for April May and June 1797, the amount paid for April two hundred seventy eight dollars which you will be pleased to place to my credit. An Estimate of Pay & Forage of the Troops at the upper posts for June and July is herewith transmitted — An Estimate for May you have already had, by all which it will appear that twenty one hundred and nineteen dollars are necessary for May June and July 1797 from which sum may be deducted three hundred and seventy three dollars a balance remaining on hand from former months of this year.
The result of all my enquiry for Captain Daniel McClain is that in March last he had left a small improvement he had been making about 45 miles north of this place [undecipherable: with an intention] has reported of going to transact some business in Philadelphia & to return. But it now appears by tolerable good information that instead of proceeding on the proposed Journey he had changed his rout and proceeded to Canada where it is reported he was employed as an Incendiary in concert with his Brother said to be a General in the Service of the Republic of France and that both Captain McClain and the General his Brother had been apprehended and imprisoned in Quebec, therefore I have now returned your letter addressed to him enclosing your statement of accounts against him
I am,
Sir
Your Obed. Servant
[signature: Isaac Craig]
[signature flourish]
William Simmons Esquire
Acc. War Dept.
Philadelphia
Estimate of the Pay of the Troops at Pittsburg, Franklin, le Bœuf and Presquisle for June and July 1797.
1 Captain R. Bifsell's Company 564
E. D. Turner's Company 652
Lieutenant Martin & Ensign Rosecrantz's Pay 101.
72.
Doctor Wallcair's pay and forage 1389.
Also may Estimate 730.
2119
Deduct surplus of former estimates 373
1746 dollars
[signature flourish]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Major Craig forwards receipts along with pay and muster rolls to William Simmons. Craig mentions an outstanding pay account of an officer who has been imprisoned in Quebec.
Date
07/14/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1797071470101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Craig, 07/21/1797.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Isaac Craig
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburg


