[PRIVATE] Request for Instructions
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
[PRIVATE] Request for Instructions
Description
Need guidance on how to file muster rolls. Additionally, mutineers now detained in irons, threatened the life of two men and gave goods to Indians.
year created
1794
month created
06
day created
05
author
sent from location
Knoxville
recipient
note
Enclosed in Rickard to Henley, 06/05/1794.
notable person/group
David Henley
William Rickard
mutineers
Indians
agent war department
militia
Colonel Hays
Colonel Hayes
troops
soldiers
company
Ensign Davidson
McKee
notable location
Knoxville
Cumberland
Territory Southwest of Ohio River
Tennessee
New London
Virginia
notable item/thing
clothing
instructions
muster
muster rolls
inspection
provisions
linen overalls
sergeant's clothing
music's clothing
woolens
medicine
bottles
leak
elister pipe
medicine chest
threaten the life
notable idea/issue
instructions
private matters
mutiny
gifts to Indians
trade
punishment
document number
1794060590101
page start
5
transcription
David Henly esquire
Agent of the War Department
Territory Sth Wes of the Ohio
Philadelphia
Knoxville
5 June 1794
Wm Rickard
Knoxville June 5th 1794
Sir
Inclosed are the Muster Rolls, Inspections and Provisions for the present Month.
On the 2d instant I received part of the Company cloathing, and a Medicine Chest. The remainder and most material part of the cloathing are yet at, or near New London in Virginia such as the Shirts, Hatts, Vests, and the Serjeants and Music's cloathing.
I have engaged a Man of a good name to bring them on in Seven Weeks to be at this place. Forty seven pairs of Linen Overalls Twenty two pairs of Woollens and six Blankets are unfit for service by being wet and ruined on the roads.
A considerable part of the Medicine has leaked out of the Bottles and no Tube to the Elister pipe sent in
the Medicine Chest.
I continue to file the Muster Rolls of the Militia in your Office as usual
I am Sir
with respect and esteem
Your Obt. Servant
Wm Rickard.
David Henley esquire
Agent of the War Department
Knoxville 3 June 1794
William Rickard
David Henly Esqr
Private
June 5th 94
Colonel Henly -
I want your directions respecting the Militia Muster Rolls of this place as well as a large bundle from Colonel Hayes of Cumberland received in April last -
My cloathing are detained on the road - & the troops have not less than eleven months pay due - The militia about four or five hundred in number - Requested, partly demanded two mutineers confined in irons to be liberated policy dictated my compliance -- Fine times -- these mutineers were two soldiers of my company who threatened the life of Enss Davidson & McKee gave a few articles to some indians which was the cause -- this news is not wrote you in an official manner -
I am with respect
Your friend
Wm Rickard
Agent of the War Department
Territory Sth Wes of the Ohio
Philadelphia
Knoxville
5 June 1794
Wm Rickard
Knoxville June 5th 1794
Sir
Inclosed are the Muster Rolls, Inspections and Provisions for the present Month.
On the 2d instant I received part of the Company cloathing, and a Medicine Chest. The remainder and most material part of the cloathing are yet at, or near New London in Virginia such as the Shirts, Hatts, Vests, and the Serjeants and Music's cloathing.
I have engaged a Man of a good name to bring them on in Seven Weeks to be at this place. Forty seven pairs of Linen Overalls Twenty two pairs of Woollens and six Blankets are unfit for service by being wet and ruined on the roads.
A considerable part of the Medicine has leaked out of the Bottles and no Tube to the Elister pipe sent in
the Medicine Chest.
I continue to file the Muster Rolls of the Militia in your Office as usual
I am Sir
with respect and esteem
Your Obt. Servant
Wm Rickard.
David Henley esquire
Agent of the War Department
Knoxville 3 June 1794
William Rickard
David Henly Esqr
Private
June 5th 94
Colonel Henly -
I want your directions respecting the Militia Muster Rolls of this place as well as a large bundle from Colonel Hayes of Cumberland received in April last -
My cloathing are detained on the road - & the troops have not less than eleven months pay due - The militia about four or five hundred in number - Requested, partly demanded two mutineers confined in irons to be liberated policy dictated my compliance -- Fine times -- these mutineers were two soldiers of my company who threatened the life of Enss Davidson & McKee gave a few articles to some indians which was the cause -- this news is not wrote you in an official manner -
I am with respect
Your friend
Wm Rickard
Item sets
Document instances
In image | In source | Location in source | |
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[view document] (6 pages) | ZTA13 (6 pages) | Collection: Fred Manning Collection of Documents from Various Series in RG217. (RG217) | B: 27 |
[view document] (5 pages) | ZTA13a (5 pages) | Collection: Fred Manning Collection of Documents from Various Series in RG217. (RG217) | B: 27 |
Document names
Type | Name | Location | Notes |
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Author | William Rickard | Knoxville | [n/a] |
Recipient | David Henley | [unknown] | [n/a] |