Directions as to Forwarding Goods
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Title
Directions as to Forwarding Goods
Description
Letter, directs public stores to be forwarded.
year created
1798
month created
02
day created
03
author
sent from location
Philadelphia
recipient
in image
note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 02/16/1798. The postscript attached in the letterbook copy immediately follows the letter.
cited note
Cited document sent from the War Office
notable person/group
Major Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
General Wilkinson
Col. Atwood
James Hamilton
notable location
Philadelphia
Fort Massac
Pittsburgh
notable item/thing
advances
wine
wagon
credit
notable phrase
statement of Hamiltons account for his last load that you may adjust and pay it on the spot
carried the advances made him
dollars
debit
take his receipt in full
General Wilkinsons wine is on another waggon that goes on today under Hamiltons care
other part of the load is for the public
credit
credited to the present Quarter Master General
comptroller will I expect write you on the subject
postscript
copies of all the invoices of goods forwarded
on examination it is found your disbursements are adjusted as are all others alike circumstanced
struck me that you may have other stores for theses posts
whole might go through without being subject to any detention
wish you to make them answering to the invoices
importance that they get speedily to hand
write to each of the commanding officers when you forward the goods and enclose the invoices
making the distribution
address the goods to Fort Massac
James Hamilton's waggon leaves this city for Pittsburgh laden with the articles inserted in the enclosed invoice
document number
1798020328055
page start
5
number of pages
2
