Reports Medicine and Hospital Stores Sent to Fort Massac with Directions
Document 1799Received letter about medicine and hospital stores marked Fort Massac and West Florida. The Secretary of War suggests the whole supply be sent to Fort Massac. The commanding officer there should wait for more direction from General Wilkins about what to keep there and what to send out to the various posts. Requests that he write to the commanding officer of Mississippi to inform him of the supplies at Fort Massac and to wait for orders from Wilkinson. A trunk has been forwarded to Jonathon Schieffelin in Detroit which should be sent by the first conveyance. Hodgdon has gone to New York but will return in a few days.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Received letter about medicine and hospital stores marked Fort Massac and West Florida. The Secretary of War suggests the whole supply be sent to Fort Massac. The commanding officer there should wait for more direction from General Wilkins about what to keep there and what to send out to the various posts. Requests that he write to the commanding officer of Mississippi to inform him of the supplies at Fort Massac and to wait for orders from Wilkinson. A trunk has been forwarded to Jonathon Schieffelin in Detroit which should be sent by the first conveyance. Hodgdon has gone to New York but will return in a few days.
Date
05/03/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1799050328055
Page start
443
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Timothy Banger
James McHenry
John Wilkins
Johnathon Schieffelin
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Fort Massac
West Florida
Mississippi
Detroit
New York
Notable items
Medicine
Hospital Stores
Trunk
