Report on Additional Sums Necessary for the Support of the Government, presented to the House of Representatives.

Item

Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Title

Report on Additional Sums Necessary for the Support of the Government, presented to the House of Representatives.

Description

Discussed claims for money and accounts from the Quartermaster's Department on the method of payment. Requested sums include payment of civil and military establishment; judicial department; Government of Territory of United States South of Ohio; Department of War; Frederick William Steuben; Quarter Masters Department; Hospital Department; Light Houses, beacons and buoys; Indian Department; certificates of debt to a list of foreign officers. Also mentions paying for the education of George Morgan White Eyes, an Indian.

year created

1790

month created

08

day created

05

sent from location

Treasury Department

secondary recipient

in collection

created note

Communicated on 08/07/1790

notable person/group

Alexander Hamilton
Frederick William Steuben
foreign officers
Speaker
House of Representatives
commissioner
Quartermaster General
prisoner
district Judge
infantry
Stephen Moore
proprietor
marshall
contractor
Richard Butler
superintendent
Indian Affairs
William Butler
executor
James O'Hara
attorney
George Loveless
Joseph Nicholson
interpreter
James Rankin
Isaac Williams
Wyandot
Indians
Indian Nation
William Wilson
George Morgan White Eyes
Arthur St. Clair
governor
loan officer
Richard Wylie
John Laurens
minister
Court of Versailles
guilders
LeRoy
Bayard Merchants
Dutch
Constant Freeman
William Thompson
William Irvine
Christopher Greene
John Lamb
Timothy Bigelow
Daniel Morgan
On Meredith
Clymer
auditor
John Neufville
loan officer
LeRay de Chaumont
comptroller
Andrew Ellicott
Isaac Guion
Thomas Franklin
Shedden Patrick & Company
Benjamin Franklin
clerk
Richard Winn
James Burnside
Thomas Smith
Richard Phillips
Walter Nichols
Cobus Mires
Bradhurst
Henry Archularius
Appleby & Matlock
Palsy Phillips
John Halstead
Hugh Smith
Postmaster
Joseph Nourse

notable location

Treasury Department
Quarter Masters Department
Hospital Department
Light Houses
Indian Department
Ohio
frontier
territory
Wabash
Miami
river
Rhode Island
North Carolina
West Point
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Princeton College
province
Canada
Quebec

notable item/thing

beacons
buoys
certificate
schedule
list
supplies
provisions
funds
money
pay
specie
public debt
purchases
stock
salary
annuity
pay
subsistence
forage
medicine
instruments
clothing
ordnance
pack horses
tents
company books
stationary
firewood
camp kettles
contract
ration
wood
groceries
milk
bread
beer
salary

notable idea/issue

debt
request
payment
certificate of debt
support
Act of Congress
loan
transportation of supplies
purchase
estimate
rent
negotiations
treaty
cost
expenses
settlement of debts

document number

1790080592800

Document instances

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Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Alexander Hamilton Treasury Department [n/a]
Recipient House of Representatives [unknown] [n/a]