Account Updates, Payment Due Spies
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Account Updates, Payment Due Spies
Description
Enclosed rolls for Marietta, Belmie, Waterford, and Gablepoles. Request for pay to be forwarded. Spies were employed on the frontier, dealing with friendly Indians who were flocking in to trade. Sproat apprehensive that some "wild hunting people" might insult the Indians with injurious consequences to the public and fatal results for valuable frontier colonists.
year created
1796
month created
04
day created
09
author
sent from location
Marietta
recipient
sent to location
Philadelphia
in collection
note
Cited in Simmons to Sproat 04/30/1796
notable person/group
William Simmons
Ebenezer Sproat
spies
frontier colonists
wild hunting people
Indians
notable location
Philadelphia
Marietta
Belmie
Waterford
Gablepoles
frontier
notable item/thing
trade
accounts
vouchers
rolls
document number
1796040970101
page start
1
number of pages
3
Item sets
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | YYB18 (3 pages) | Collection: Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217) | Sproat, Ebenezer |
| [view document] (3 pages) | YYB18a (3 pages) | Collection: Claims Files Relating to Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1851. (RG217) | Sproat, Ebenezer |
| [view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Collection: Citations | [unknown] |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Ebenezer Sproat | Marietta | [n/a] |
| Recipient | William Simmons | Philadelphia | [n/a] |