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Item
Type
Extract of Letter
Description
Extract Appt Letter, describes Craig's duties at Fort Pitt.
short description
ExApptLtr, des Craig's Fort Pitt duties
year created
1791
month created
02
day created
15
note
This document was inserted during contents database conversion on January 24, 2007.
notable person/group
Samuel Hodgdon
notable location
Fort Pitt
Ohio
Philadelphia
United States
notable item/thing
you are hereby appointed to take charge of all the public stores belonging to the United States which shall be deposited at Fort Pitt
for which services you shall receive at the rate of thirty dollars per month
directed a number of arms and accoutrements and a large quantity of ammunition to be immediately transported to that post
returns
said articles safely secured in the public stores at Fort Pitt
stores should be so circumstance as to receive them safely
magazine and public buildings
require repairs
have them executed as economically as possible
transmitting to me the particulars and amount of such repairs
stores
to be delivered to
commanding officer of the troops
on the Ohio
you are not to send them
unless particularly ordered so to do by
commanding officer
keep exact and regular accounts of all public property received and delivered by you
deliver nothing without orders and receipts excepting in such particular emergencies as preclude your receiving such orders
make
monthly returns of all articles in your possession and
receipts and deliveries
careful to transact all the public business on the best terms and that no expence be incurred excepting absolutely necessary
War Office
document number
1791021541066
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