Various Accounting Matters
Document 1799Clothing, ordnance, and military stores should be forwarded to fort on Mississippi river. Commanding officer there will move goods to final destination. Hodgdon hopes for a full settlement with Quartermaster General and requests all receipts from Craig to do so. Request for compensation amount by Col. Stevens.
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[Docket notation on wrapper, upper right:] [undecipherable: probable reading Isaac Craig] — [undecipherable: probable reading November 14th] 1799
Philadelphia [undecipherable]th 1799
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] of the 1st [undecipherable: probable reading instant], is just
[undecipherable: probable reading come] to hand, the contents [undecipherable]
After the [undecipherable: probable reading exertions] [undecipherable] have to [undecipherable] the Clothing
[undecipherable: probable reading forwarded], [undecipherable] to find the [undecipherable]
in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a quantity of Clothing
[undecipherable] [undecipherable], and Clothing [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]
on the Mississippi, by the way of [undecipherable: probable reading Colonel] General
[undecipherable: probable reading Wilkinson] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] as [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] will be [undecipherable: probable reading supplied] from thence [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] supply
of all the [undecipherable: probable reading Posts] on [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] be
[undecipherable: probable reading obliged] by an early [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in my former [undecipherable: probable reading communications] as well
as the completion of your arrangement with the
[undecipherable: probable reading Quarter] Master General relative to the [undecipherable] due
me — I want much to make a full [undecipherable: probable reading settlement] with
him the [undecipherable] he arrives — [undecipherable] claims of every kind
that [undecipherable] under my notice shall be [undecipherable: probable reading prosecuted]
until [undecipherable] settled — You will be [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to
[undecipherable] from what compensation he is to receive
[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] put in writing [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] a settling of the terms
[undecipherable], and requested that [undecipherable]
admitted and [undecipherable] that and the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] be appointed to fill his place immediately
I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] if you will be [undecipherable] gratified
[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] are all [undecipherable] to the
City — [undecipherable] keeps me fully employed — [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] arrangements perfectly, and I am
happy to say we agree well on all [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] his request — I have ordered Clothing [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] full Companies to be sent to [undecipherable: probable reading Pittsburg] im-
mediately — [undecipherable] for a Company of the [undecipherable],
[undecipherable] Third Regiments each — with [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] and Third Regiments each — with three
[undecipherable] of Sugar and Coffee shall go for-
ward — [undecipherable] —
Yours very Sincerely
[undecipherable] Samuel [undecipherable: probable reading Hodgdon]
Major Isaac [undecipherable: probable reading Craig]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Clothing, ordnance, and military stores should be forwarded to fort on Mississippi river. Commanding officer there will move goods to final destination. Hodgdon hopes for a full settlement with Quartermaster General and requests all receipts from Craig to do so. Request for compensation amount by Col. Stevens.
Date
11/08/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1799110836001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 11/15/1799.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
commanding officer
Quartermaster General
Stevens
Notable locations
Philadelphia
fort
frontier
territory
Mississippi
river
Walnut Hills
post
Notable items
clothing
ordnance
military stores
receipts

