Requests Payment for Troops under Colonel Harmar

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Requests Payment for Troops under Colonel Harmar

Description

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.

year created

1785

month created

04

day created

29

author

sent from location

War Office

recipient

in collection

in image

note

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

notable person/group

Richard Henry Lee
Henry Knox
Josiah Harmar
Major Doughty
Lieutenant Sackett
Congress
Non-Commissioned Officers
Privates
officer
Corps
President of Congress
Secretary of War

notable location

War Office
Fort Pitt
West Point
Fort McIntosh

notable item/thing

pay
supply of money
disbursements
reinlistments

document number

1785042900001

page start

1

transcription

[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.

Item sets

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) DAB18 (2 pages) Collection: Alfred T. Goodman Papers C: 2, F: 18

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Henry Knox War Office [n/a]
Recipient Richard Henry Lee [unknown] [n/a]