Paying More Drafts on the Quartermaster's Department
Document 1798Letter, discusses drafts on the Quarter Master General; asks for money to pay drafts.
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to be of that assumption I shall give yours the most early attention
your draft is honored — Am glad to find you have received
the last 24 Fourteen thank you for your attention
to Woodbridges Rebt &c McClintock — The Papers will
give you the news — adieu
I am
Sir
Your most Obedient Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Major Isaac Craig
Philadelphia 2d March 1795.
Sir,
No letter from you to day of course nothing to reply
to — on the 19th Ulto Major Cushing paid into my hands
Nine hundred and Seventy Dollars on account of monies
for which he is to account in your Department you
will please to debit him for the above Sum and Credit
me — I have passed [strikethrough: the] your credit in my Books —
Nothing particularly new more than you
will have in the Papers —
I am
Sir
Your most Obedt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Colo Jno Wilkins Junr
Philadelphia 2 March 1795
Sir
To enable me to pay certain rights in the Quarter
Masters Department, I request you to issue from the Treasury four
hundred Dollars to be charged to the Quarter Master General
on the trust and Store
I am
Sir
Your most Obedient Servt
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry esqr
Secretary of war.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, discusses drafts on the Quarter Master General; asks for money to pay drafts.
Date
03/02/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798030240055
Page start
27
Notable persons
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins
Quartermaster General
Notable locations
Philadelphia

