Conveying Deserter Benjamin Woods
Document 1798Read has paid a bill related to the expenses of conveying Benjamin Wood, a deserter from Fort Mifflin, from Easton to Spring Garden. Should the bill and receipts be transmitted to Simmons?
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[Docket: Easton 5th August 1798 / James Read / recd 7th / ansd same day]
[Address: William Simmons Esquire / Accountant of War / Department / [undecipherable]]
Sir
I have paid a Bill containing the expences &c of conveying from this place, to Spring garden, a certain Benjamin Woods a deserter from Fort Mifflin. will it be proper in me to transmit to you the Bill and receipt?
I have the honour to be
your most obedt Servant
James Read
Wm Simmons Esqr
Easton Pennsyl.a
August 5th 1798
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Read has paid a bill related to the expenses of conveying Benjamin Wood, a deserter from Fort Mifflin, from Easton to Spring Garden. Should the bill and receipts be transmitted to Simmons?
Date
08/05/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Easton, Pennsylvania
Document number
1798080570101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Read, 08/07/1798.
Notable persons
William Simmons
James Read
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Easton, Pennsylvania