Request for Rank and Command of Officers Listed
Document 1797Freeman and Ingersoll want to know if any of the officers or men they have listed as being attached to West Point are now attached to other companies.
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West Point, July 23d 1798
Sir,
At the request of Captain Ingersoll, the Commanding Officer, I would thank you to inform me, of the officers and men under named, and who, on the rolls of this garrison, have been considered in command, are placed on any muster rolls transmitted to you, and there mustered as being attached to companies other than those at West Point.
Vizt of Captain Ingersoll's company.
The late [undecipherable] Lieutenant Robert Tillotson at the westward —
stationed in No Carolina Sergeant James Williams in North Carolina
&c Captain Lillie[undecipherable]'s company.
Resigned 9th June Lieutenant David Hale at Portland
paid with Capt Doye Sergeant Willon McIntire at New York
Do Musician Lewis Hawley ——— Ditto
——— Abner Cole ——— Ditto
With respect
I am Sir,
Your very Obd Servt
William Simmons Esqre
Accountant of the War Dept
A. Freeman
Lieut S. I. Inspr
[address leaf: William Simmons Esquire / Accountant of the War Department / Philadelphia]
[notation upper right: West Point, July 23, 1798 / Freeman / [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Freeman and Ingersoll want to know if any of the officers or men they have listed as being attached to West Point are now attached to other companies.
Date
07/23/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1797072370001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Simmons
Nehemiah Freeman
Captain Ingersoll
Commanding Officer
officers and men
Lieutenant Robert Parkison
Sergeant James William
Captain Littlefield
Lieutenant Daivd Hale
Sergeant William McIntire
Captain Frye
Musician Lewis Hawley
Musician Abner Cole
Notable locations
Philadelphia
West Point
westward
North Carolina
Portland
New York
Notable items
muster rolls
mustered
resigned

