Status of Stores and Store House

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Status of Stores and Store House

Description

Enclosed return on stores that recently came to hand, barrel of powder damaged during transit. Store house is in a state of disrepair and cannot be made completely secure. Craig to make repairs to magazine that will make it a safe depository.

short description

Status of Stores and Store House

year created

1791

month created

03

day created

30

author

sent from location

Fort Pitt

recipient

in collection

in image

notable person/group

Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Jesse Heasland
General Knox

notable location

Fort Pitt
magazine
store house

notable item/thing

powder
barrel
supplies
trunk
boxes
return of stores
wagon
waggon
bag
log building
repairs

document number

1791033089001

page start

1

transcription

Fort Pitt March 30 1791
Dear Sir
I have Received your favor of the 17th inst together with the [Twenty?] Boxes of Jesse Harland, for which I have paid him Ten dollars, Please to accept of my most greateful acknowledgements, for your Attention to those Articles I have Inclosed a Return of the Stores already come to Hand. They all appear in good Order Except one Barrell of Powder. the Barrel is damaged, but none of the powder lost as the weight is now the same, as that marked on it. the Waggoner having put it in a long Bagg as soon as he discovered the Cask Injured
I have informed Genl Knox that the Store House cannot be made perfectly Secure, it is an old Log Building badly Constructed, and considerably decayed; I have made such Repairs, as was Indispensibly Necessary only; I am making some Repairs, and Alternations on the Magazine, which I Expect will make a very safe Depositary for powder and fixed Amunition
I am SirYour Obedt Hunbl ServtIsaac Craig
Saml Hodgdon Esqr[undecipherable] Master Genl

Item sets

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) IAM01 (2 pages) Collection: James Robertson Papers IIA003

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Isaac Craig Fort Pitt [n/a]
Recipient Samuel Hodgdon [unknown] [n/a]