Autograph Letter Signed

Requests Payment for Troops under Colonel Harmar

Asks that additional disbursements of troop pay be authorized, particularly for Col. Harmar at Fort McIntosh. Reports that the corps have been there 9 months with only 1 month's pay and if they receive their advancement, many may choose to reenlist.

1785

04

29

War Office

In unbound journal marked "correspondence of General Josiah Harmar transcribed by the War Department 1812."

Richard Henry Lee

Henry Knox

Josiah Harmar

Major Doughty

Lieutenant Sackett

Congress

Non-Commissioned Officers

Privates

officer

Corps

President of Congress

Secretary of War

War Office

Fort Pitt

West Point

Fort McIntosh

pay

supply of money

disbursements

reinlistments

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[Notation in upper right corner] 45
War Office 29th April 1785.
Sir
I do myself the honor to inform
Your Excellency and Congress that an Officer
has arrived in this City from Colonel Harman
stationed at Fort McIntosh to solicit some
pay for the Troops under his Command.
This Corps will have been in service
upwards of nine months before they can be re-
leived by the Troops ordered to be raised for
three years. They have received one months
pay only, but their necessities require that a
further sum should be advanced them.
If they should receive a supply of money
previously to this disbursement, and thier
arrearages placed upon a good footing, many
of the Non Commissioned Officers and Privates
would probably be induced to reinlist.
The Company at West Point under
Major Doughty, and a small party at
Fort Pitt, under Lieutenant Sackett have the
same expectations from the goodness of Congress,
as Colonel Harmans Corps.
I have the honor to be with the highest respect,
Your Excellencys
Very obt hble Servt,
H Knox.
His Excellency,
The President of Congress.