Request Clothing Delivery and Receipts for Regiments in Windsor, Vermont
Document 1799Request to deliver public clothing left in Windsor, VT, for the effort to raise 12 regiments. Leverett should take 2 receipts, one to return to Hodgdon and the other to the paymaster of the regiment, who will adjust the the regiment's pay accounts.
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Philadelphia, 22d May, 1799.
Sir,
you will be pleased to deliver the public Clothing, viz: Shirts, Breeches, and Shoes left at Windsor in the State of Vermont by Lt Barnitz and which you have Kindly taken care of, to the Officer now there, or such one as may arrive there for the purpose of recruiting for the Twelve Regiments now raising.
On making the delivery you will please to take two receipts; one of which is to be sent to me, the other to the pay master of the Regiment, whose duty it is to adjust the Clothing as well as pay accounts of the Regiment.
your most obedient Servant
Samuel Hodgdon —
Mr William Loveitt —
Philadelphia, 22d May, 1799.
Sir,
By a letter received from Col Williams, dated the 27th ulto I am informed that the amount of the five [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Bills drawn by [undecipherable: your] subsquents from the 1st July 1796, the time of the resignation of Col. [undecipherable], amounting to 2070 Dollars, which Ours were paid by me and charged to him, have not been accounted for by you with him, and therefore are not to stand to his debit — This being the case, I must request you to send me a Certificate that they have been accounted for with Ct O'Hara; on receipt of which the matter may be set right. If not accounted for with him, be pleased to inform me to whom you have made your self Debtor, and this time and way you expect to adjust the [undecipherable: turnups] — The Bills were all drawn between the 1st July and 30. October, 1798. —
I now thank you to let me hear from you on the subject by the first conveyance.
your &c,
Samuel Hodgdon —
Mr David [undecipherable: Flanagan] —
Cincinnati
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Request to deliver public clothing left in Windsor, VT, for the effort to raise 12 regiments. Leverett should take 2 receipts, one to return to Hodgdon and the other to the paymaster of the regiment, who will adjust the the regiment's pay accounts.
Date
05/22/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1799052228355
Page start
455
Notable persons
William Leverett
Samuel Hodgdon
Lieutenant Pamela
Paymaster
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Windsor, Vermont
Notable items
Clothing
Shirts
Shoes
Accounts

