Warrant to Pay Ten Accepted Bills, Etc.
Document 1798Hodgdon requests a warrant to pay ten accepted bills to be charged, as ususal, to the Quartermaster General
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Philadelphia 31 July 1793.
Sir,
On board the Schooner Fanny Bridger Capt. Robert Dunn who sails for York this Evening or to morrow morning I have shipped to your address Clothing Arms & Accoutrements for fifty Men. I give you this information that you may know when they may probably get to hand —
I am Sir
Your most Obedt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
[Capt. Jno Henry
New York]
Philadelphia 2nd August 1793
Sir
In compliance with your request I enclose a list of documents which I suppose necessary to establish the Claim of Maryland against the United States.
I think it will be best to order the Thousand Muskets, & Cartouch Boxes from Shepherds Town to Baltimore.
I am Sir
respectfully
Your most Obt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
[James McHenry Esqr
Secretary of War]
Vouchers considered as essential to establish the Claim of Maryland against the United States for Arms &c lost on the Campaign against the Insurgents in the fall of 1794.
1st The Order for the delivery of the Articles.
2nd The receipts or acknowledgments of the Persons who received them.
3rd An Account of the Articles returned with the names of the Persons from whom they were received.
4th A Statement exhibiting the names of the Persons who received and have not accounted for the whole or any portion of the Stores delivered them.
5th A Certificate shewing that no part or portion of the Stores have been reused by the State, since the Statement of the Account produced.
6th An Account of the measures taken by the State to recover any of the missing Articles —
Philadelphia 2d August 1798.
Sir
To enable me to Pay ten Accepted Bills in the Quarter Masters Department, I request a Warrant for four thousand and twenty six dollars, to be charged as usual to the Quarter Master General — I have information of drafts coming forward by order of the Commander in Chief for ten thousand dollars, they will be noticed as they appear —
I am
Sir
Your Most Obedt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
[James McHenry
Secretary of War]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon requests a warrant to pay ten accepted bills to be charged, as ususal, to the Quartermaster General
Date
08/02/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798080228155
Page start
166
Note
[Enclosed in Hodgdon to McHenry, 08/02/1798.]
Notable persons
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Quartermaster General
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
warrant
drafts coming by order of the Commander in Chief [John Adams]

