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Attempts to Procure Food & Payment for Troops, with Limited Funds

Knox sends Wadsworth two orders, one for $1500 for rations and the other to defray the expences for the line. Further advances for the troops are necessary but cannot be sent until the troops on the Ohio River have received their pay and subsistence for the year.

Attempts to Procure Food & Payment for Troops, with Limited Funds

1787

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War Office

Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth

Henry Knox

William Imlay, Esq.

Board of Treasury

Comptroller of the Treasury

troops

War Office

Quartermaster's Department

Ohio

orders

dollars

order on account of rations

expences

expenses

receipt of these bills

duplicate receipts

accounts

monies

warants

warrants

great embarassment

accurate vouchers for the settlement of public accounts

advances

pay and subsistence

I should have been happy that some further advances could have been made to the troops at this time, on account of their pay and subsistence, but the Board of Treasury cannot make unequal advances to the troops, and those on the Ohio have not as yet for this year had either pay or subsistence.

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HKnox March 28th 1787
War Office March 28th 1787
Sir
Agreably to your request of the 18th instant, I now
enclose you two orders, drawn in my favor on William
Imlay Esq. by the board of Treasury each for 1500 Dollars. The
order on account of rations is intended to be placed in
your hands to defray the expences of rations, and the
one for the quarter Masters department to defray the
expences in that line. You will please immediately
on the receipt of these bills to enclose me your duplicate
receipts for them.
You will please to keep the accounts separate
and distinct, and the monies drawn on account of the
warrants now forwarded cannot be applied to any
other objects than those specified without involving
in great embarrassment with the comptroller of the
Treasury.
As you are fully impressed with the
necessity of accurate vouchers for the settlement of
public accounts, you will please to direct that yours
be kept perfectly so.
I should have been happy that some
further
further advances, could have been made to the troops
at this time, on account of their pay and subsistence, but
the board of Treasury cannot make unequal advances
to the troops, and those on the Ohio have not as yet for
this year had either pay or subsistence.
I am sir
With great respect
your very humble servant
HKnox
Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth