Effort to Settle Accounts for Stores Sent and Received at Pittsburgh; Accounting Procedures
Document 1799Requests 3 general returns for all stores received at post for military, quartermaster, or Indian goods, with abstracts outlining which items were manufactured in Pittsburgh, from whom they were received, and the time they arrived. Also desires records of losses due to transportation or other circumstances of delivery. Recognizes items to be forwarded to other posts will require a different type of invoice. All paperwork for the first part of 1798 should be immediately forwarded to his office. Attempts made to adjust income and balance statements.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Requests 3 general returns for all stores received at post for military, quartermaster, or Indian goods, with abstracts outlining which items were manufactured in Pittsburgh, from whom they were received, and the time they arrived. Also desires records of losses due to transportation or other circumstances of delivery. Recognizes items to be forwarded to other posts will require a different type of invoice. All paperwork for the first part of 1798 should be immediately forwarded to his office. Attempts made to adjust income and balance statements.
Date
03/12/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1799031228155
Page start
399
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
Stores
Abstracts
Vouchers
Invoices
Certificates