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Improving Workmen's Accomodations
The workmen are not at all pleased with their accommodations. Orr recommends that the public building formerly used as a laboratory and currently holding rubbish should be refitted to house the …
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)Important Dispatches for Major General Wayne to be Delivered Without Delay
Mr. Carpenter bears important dispatches for Major General Wayne. Secretary of War requests a boat immediately, with guard, to take bearer down Ohio River to Fort Washington.
James Robertson PapersImpending Revolution
Kind words from Henley appreciated. Noted mounting insurrection, and the possibility of a revolution. Request advice on muster rolls.
Fred Manning Collection of Documents From Various Series in RG217. (RG217)Immediate Delivery of Shoes
Shoes be prepared for immediate delivery to Fort Cumberland.
Gilder Lehrman Collection.Illicit French Privateers Flouting U.S. Authority to Be Stripped of Military Equipment If Entering U.S. Ports Again
Explains that the government has suffered much embarrassment from illicit French privateers running from one American port to the next, effectively getting the asylum that was to be denied to them …
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. PapersIllegible Receipt for Stores for the Milita
This is a partially illegible receipt apparently for stores for the militia.
Post Revolutionary War Manuscripts, 1784-1811. (RG94) (M904)Illegal invasion of Spanish Florida by General Elijah Clarke
General Elijah Clarke has illegally formed a military corps, under the banner of the United States, to set upon an expedition against the Spanish Floridas, a nation whom are at peace with the United …
FO 5/5 Foreign Office Correspondence, America(United States), General Correspondence.Illegal Actions for Belligerent Ship Outfitting in American Ports, to Extend to Neutral Nations & Most American Ships
Establishes a uniform principle of what outfitting actions taken by belligerent European ships in American ports are illegal. Any alterations to guns or creation of new carriages or portholes are …
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. PapersI Want that Horse!
[Difficult handwriting] Slough expresses his wish to purchase a cream-colored gelding and will agree to whatever terms are thought reasonable
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)Hull recommends Patten to Knox
Letter, recommends Patten for military commission.
Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]Howitzers for General Robertson at Nashville
Hodgdon is ordered to have six 3 & 1/2 inch iron howitzers, with ammunition for 100 rounds for each piece including 25 grape or case shot, transported to Fort Pitt and then sent down the Ohio to …
Stanley F. Horn CollectionHowell discusses funding and pay matters with Major Craig
Howell certifies the pay of a particular soldier at Major Craig's request.
Isaac Craig Papers
