Returns from Posts on the Frontiers
Document 1798Wilkins transmits to the Secretary of War a general return of the Quartermaster's stores on hand at the several posts on the frontier based on the most authentic returns from those posts.
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Pittsbergh 6 April 1798.
Sir
Since mine of the 30th ultimo I have drawn on you in favor of H. H. Brackenridge on order, one bill of exchange No 73 for two hundred and ninety dollars
By this days post I transmit to the Honorable Secretary of War a General return of Quarter Masters Stores on hand at the several posts on the frontiers, taken from the latest and most authentic returns received from these posts. Am Sir
Your Most Hum Sert
W. Irvine Jr
D. Mar[undecipherable]
Col: Hodgdon
[Address leaf: Col.º Samuel Hodgdon, Philadelphia]
[Docket, upper right of address leaf: Col: Irvine / Pittsburg / [undecipherable]]
[Stamp: Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O.401310.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Wilkins transmits to the Secretary of War a general return of the Quartermaster's stores on hand at the several posts on the frontier based on the most authentic returns from those posts.
Date
04/06/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Document number
1798040680001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Hodgdon to Wilkins, 04/13/1798.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins Jr
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh