Expressing a Desire for Minute Details
Item
Type
Extract of Letter
Title
Expressing a Desire for Minute Details
Description
Pike writes of issues affecting Fort Massac and the western part of the Northwest territory. He acknowledges receiving Wilkinson's letter of May 6th. He will not make any improvements to the post.
year created
1796
month created
07
day created
03
author
sent from location
Fort Wayne
recipient
in collection
in image
note
Extract of a letter from the Commander to Brigadier General James Wilkinson.
notable person/group
James Wilkinson
Zebulon Pike Sr.
Lieutenant Thomas Underwood
ambassadors
Aaron Gregg
notable location
Fort Wayne
Fort Massac
notable item/thing
Commercial Treaty with Spain
withholding information
improvements
document number
1796070390001
page start
1
number of pages
3
transcription
Z. Pike
Extract of a letter from the Commandant to Brigadier General James Wilkinson dated
Fort Massac the 3rd of July 1796
Sir
I was honored with yours of the 16th of may last by Lieutenant Underwood and sincerely thank you for the communications; I shall decline all improvements contemplated [upward arrow signifying insertion]to be made at this place, such excepted as is will forward and actually [upward arrow signifying insertion] necessary for a temporary part of our [undecipherable] in addition till next spring. I hope the commercial treaty with Spain will terminate much to the advantage of the union. I have done with the [undecipherable] of the Ambassadors.
If Lieutenant Gregg has any communications, in the [undecipherable] of which if our [undecipherable: tone? time?] would not have been lost he has thought proper to withhold them. I assure you I have no orders to retain from you any information, but on the contrary to report to you regularly added to which I feel a dispotiion to make you acquainted with the most minute [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that may tend to the advantage of
[Undecipherable word on the next line, to the left, and another to the right on the same line]
[Written on the back of the previous page]
the Union, which I hope my conducted will [undecipherable]
Extract of a letter from the Commandant to Brigadier General James Wilkinson dated
Fort Massac the 3rd of July 1796
Sir
I was honored with yours of the 16th of may last by Lieutenant Underwood and sincerely thank you for the communications; I shall decline all improvements contemplated [upward arrow signifying insertion]to be made at this place, such excepted as is will forward and actually [upward arrow signifying insertion] necessary for a temporary part of our [undecipherable] in addition till next spring. I hope the commercial treaty with Spain will terminate much to the advantage of the union. I have done with the [undecipherable] of the Ambassadors.
If Lieutenant Gregg has any communications, in the [undecipherable] of which if our [undecipherable: tone? time?] would not have been lost he has thought proper to withhold them. I assure you I have no orders to retain from you any information, but on the contrary to report to you regularly added to which I feel a dispotiion to make you acquainted with the most minute [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that may tend to the advantage of
[Undecipherable word on the next line, to the left, and another to the right on the same line]
[Written on the back of the previous page]
the Union, which I hope my conducted will [undecipherable]
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | IGE11 (3 pages) | Collection: Northwest Territory Collection, M367 | B:2, F:16 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Zebulon M. Pike | Fort Wayne | [n/a] |
| Recipient | James Wilkinson | [unknown] | [n/a] |