Autograph Letter Signed

Delivery of Dispatches

Dispatches to be sent via confidential hand to Fort Washington within 2 hours time anticipates it will take less time by land than by boat on the Ohio river. Requests answer on abandoning buildings located at Wheeling.

1797

06

16

Pittsburgh

Philadelphia

James McHenry

Isaac Craig

Clement Biddle

Commander in Chief

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Fort Washington

Ohio river

Wheeling

Fort Pitt

dispatch

mail boat

confidential hand

express

Ohio mail

buildings

confidential

dispatch

transportation of orders

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Pittsburg 16 June 1797
Sir
I have this moment received your letter of the 9 & 10th inst. together with the Packets therein - severally mentioned and which I shall without delay of more than two hours send by a confidential hand express to Fort Washington by which means it is probable these dispatches will be delivered several days sooner than by the Ohio Mail boat.
At ten oclock this morning an express arrived from the Commander in Chief at Fort Washington with three Packets addressed to you which are herewith enclosed together with a letter addressed to Clement Biddle esq.
As I have not yet had the pleasure of an answer to my letter of the 19th ultimo respecting the Buildings erected at the expence of the U.S. at this place and at Wheelen I have to beg your attention to it at a leisure moment.
i am Sir Your Obed Serv
IC
Hon James McHenry
Sec'y of War
Philadelphia