Discussion of Expenditures, Power of Attorney, & Recent Bills Drawn
Document 1798Discusses expenditure of monies & power of attorney. Refers to instructions for obtaining cash for vouchers. Lists recent bills drawn.
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Sr Petersburgh 19 Jany 95
I transmit you enclosed
The list of names specified by you from
the Treasury and my signature to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [undecipherable] I should have
transmitted it before but you did not in-
form me it has numbers in any form
of former letters I also inclose the power
of Attorney adequate to every purpose
I before requested your attention
to have the vouchers for the disburse-
ments of cash made by Major Craig
prepared to my account — this may have
taken place before for I am totally unin-
formed on the subject & wish to [undecipherable]
but as [undecipherable] are taken in my name
and [undecipherable] my hands to the treasury
be [undecipherable] to the person Craig who
acts [undecipherable] in his own name
and [probably?] ought [undecipherable] them
being [undecipherable] to my [credit?] — but as [undecipherable]
the [money?] is chargeable to me the
[undecipherable] disbursements [undecipherable]
should go to my credit —
The [first?] account of disbursements
of cash accompanied with the vouchers
which I transmitted to the Comptroller
of the treasury This was omitted one
November charge[?] in the account but
owing to a mistake of [Haugan?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] which I have
[undecipherable] — I enclose it to you and
beg you in [the] care of the Comptroller
of the [treasury] [undecipherable]
for payment to Samuel Henley as
Commissary of Military Stores —
I draw on you the
following bills viz
No 59 [undecipherable] James [Ray?] Esqr at 15
days sight dated 1st Jany 95.
• 60 [undecipherable] James & William [Mellon?]
15 days sight dated 19 Jany 95.
• 61 in [favor?] of [undecipherable] [Wallace?] Esqr at 15 days
sight dated 19 Jany 95
Yr Sir
Col Saml Hodgdon [undecipherable]
Philadelphia
Type
Letterbook
Description
Discusses expenditure of monies & power of attorney. Refers to instructions for obtaining cash for vouchers. Lists recent bills drawn.
Date
01/19/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1798011980001
Note
Cited in Hodgdon to Wilkins, 02/2/1798.
3 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, two without images.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Notable items
cash
vouchers
bills

