River Is Closed with Ice
Document 1800Major Craig informs Samuel Hodgdon that the river is closed with ice and all western shipments of stores are halted. He discusses accounts of Captain Vance and Mr. Clark.
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[Docket, address panel:] Isaac Craig January / Jany 31 1800 / Encloses a [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] for $500 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Private [Stamp: Received State Dep't Oct 24, 1894. N.F.O. 401810.]
Samuel
Hodgdon Esq
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Jany 31 1800
Sir
Your letter of the 24th instant is this moment come to hand — Our River is shut up a second time— the Hospital Stores are still here and Colo Hamtramck says there is not the Necessity for sending them forward until all Risque of Winter Navigation is over—
with respect to Mr Clark whom you mention on the [undecipherable: 19th Ulto] he being then on his Way to Philada & having $300 which he found inconvenient to Carry with him Applied to me for A Bill to that Amount & Having agreeable to Instructions from Genl Hamilton & Caleb Swan in the beginning of Decemr made A Requisition on Captn Samuel C Vance for $3.619. being the Amount of three months Pay for the Troops at the upper posts & which Capt Vance was instructed to remit from Cincinatta to me in Bills on the Pay Master Genl in my favor but as no Mail has Arrived from Cincinatta these Bills have not come to hand and Mr Clark was told that his $300 was to be remitted to him by means of these Bills only [strikethrough: & to you Should Mr Clark be again call upon you please] to remind him of these Circumstances — I have by this days Mail have re-mitted to the Secretary of War A General return of Stores & which I presume he will send down to your Office —
I am with great respect
Sir your Obedient Servant
Isaac Craig
Saml Hodgdon Esqr
Philada
P.S. This moment the Cincinatta Mail has Brought me a letter from Capt Vance by which I am Enabled to transmit you the enclosed [&] out of one [set] of Bills of Exchange No 30 for $500 Drawn by Capt Saml C Vance on Caleb Swan in my favor Jany 10th at Cincinatti and now Indorsed in to you for & you will please to present it for [undecipherable] & pay Mr Clark [taking] up my Receipt which please to return to me —
Your Obedient Servant
Isaac Craig
S Hodgdon Esqr
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Major Craig informs Samuel Hodgdon that the river is closed with ice and all western shipments of stores are halted. He discusses accounts of Captain Vance and Mr. Clark.
Date
01/31/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1800013180001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Colonel Hamtamck
Clark
General Hamilton
Caleb Swan
Captain Samuel C Vance
Paymaster General
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Notable items
river
hospital stores
bill
pay for the troops
return of stores
mail
bills of exchange

