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Request for Payment
08/16/1796 Autograph Letter SignedAsks Simmons to facilitate another payment to her, and to clarify if she should apply to Jackson, who has succeeded Gorham as Supervisor at Boston.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay to be Forwarded
01/26/1796 Autograph Letter SignedPerrault sends his latest accounts and asks that the money be delivered to Messers. Carascon and Journel.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay to be Advanced
03/14/1796 Autograph Letter SignedGeddes requested his pay be advanced before his departure to Governor's Island.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay Due with Receipts and Orders of Joshua Wentworth Enclosed
05/09/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequest for pay in small post notes not to exceed two or three hundred dollars due to difficulty in negotiating for large sums of money.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay Due Deceased Soldier
10/29/1796 Autograph Letter SignedMunson administrator to the soldiers estate, requested William Toch's pay be forwarded.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay
08/28/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequested payment of Montgomery & Newbold who are occasionally requested to credit Gibson money.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Pay
08/02/1796 Autograph Letter SignedGibbs expected his pay and is disappointed that he has not yet received it. He asks to be paid as soon as possible.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for pay
11/05/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequests that his pay be sent to him at Dumfries before he departs for Philadelphia
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for pay
03/23/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequests that Simmons expedite the pay due to him to help him defray the expenses of his anticipated trip to France
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for overdue money owed work people at New London
05/02/1796 Autograph Letter SignedThomas Holt laments that the work people are distressed for money and he asks that Hodgdon send money as soon as possible.
Second Congress: Reports and Communications Submitted to the Senate by the Secretary of the Treasury [2A-F2] (RG46)
Request for Order to Pay Recruits
04/20/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRecruits impatient due to not receiving pay owed them. Col. Butler assured Martin that pay would arrive shortly, but it had not so Martin requested order to pay troops as soon as possible.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Order to Pay Nicholson
01/04/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequests an order be issued for his pay and rations for the last quarter.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Order to Pay Nicholson
09/26/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequests his pay and subsistence for the last quarter.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Order to Pay Nicholson
07/01/1796 Autograph Letter SignedNicholson asks that Simmons send an order that he be paid his pay and rations for the last quarter.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Order to Pay Nicholson
03/31/1796 Autograph Letter SignedNicholson asks that Simmons send an order so he can receive his last pay and ration.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Monthly Stoppages of Pay to Balance Debt to United States
09/05/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRivardi owes $420 to the United States. He would like to have $25 held back from each paycheck and credited towards that debt.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Money for Recruiting
02/21/1796 Autograph Letter SignedRequest for money for recruiting, and letters from Lieut. Bissell to Capt. R. Bissell to be forwarded as for opportunity.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for live oak to complete body frame of frigate at Philadelphia
05/13/1796 LetterbookJoshua Humphreys in need of live oak to complete body frame of frigate at Philadelphia. Because it will be easier to procure from the ship yard at New York than from Georgia, Blagge is ordered to send …
Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters To
Request for leave of absence to make voyage to China
04/08/1796 Autograph Letter SignedOperations in building and equipping frigate [presumably USS Chesapeake], that Dale is designated to command have been postponed, so Dale asks for leave of absence to make a voyage to China. Expects …
Muster Rolls of Regular Army Organization, 1784-1912. (RG94)
Request for Job as Adjutant
10/14/1796 LetterbookDransey requested the recently vacated position of adjutant in the corps if Rochefontaine felt Dransey's skills were sufficient.
Letters Sent (Letterbook) of Commissioner of the Revenue, Tench Coxe, Relating to War Department Procurement, Apr 14, 1794-Aug 26, 1796. (RG75) (M74)
Request for Instructions on Pay for Sergent Howe
12/18/1796 Autograph Letter SignedButler received money from Issac Craig, Deputy Paymaster General, but could not pay Sergent Charles Howe due to his absence on command. Butler requested instructions from Simmons on how to pay the …
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Inlistments by Lieut. Grundirs
05/13/1796 Autograph Letter SignedSaunders requested records. Mitchell enclosed the bounty receipts on the back of the recruiting forms.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Information Regarding Sick Pay
11/19/1796 Autograph Letter SignedJohn Cole and his three brothers (Tenn[-]Cole, Henry Cole, and Garrit Cole) paid. Kileltas requested information regarding sick pay for soldiers by next post.
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Information on Pay of Soldiers
07/29/1796 Autograph Letter SignedFreeman requested information on Christopher Keppard, of Porteis Company, 9th battalion of artillery, discharged from Fort Wayne and John White of Peine's company of the same corps. Requested …
Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217)
Request for Information
02/24/1796 LetterbookIn response to Fleming's letter, the Secretary of War requests a return of the public buildings at West Point, and an estimate of requisitions made by Rochefontaine.
Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859)
