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• Whether or Not to Repay Colonel Hamtramck

  Encloses extract of Lieutenant Colonel John F. Hamtramck's letter of July 1, 1799 concerning his failure to be repaid for expenses incurred fo the First Regiment. States: "I would request your particular attention to this subject. You will be so good as to inform me whether the payment will be made or if there are special objections to the measure, communicate them to me that I may be able to transmit them to Colonel Hamtramck."

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Iindividual Officers and Soldiers & Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Organization of Individual Regiments

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Orgnization of Regiments & Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments and concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• More organization is indispensable.

  "I have heard of your arrival at Rhode Island. On the____ I wrote you a long letter transmitting all the instructions which respect the recruiting service &c. Did you receive this letter? Is there anyone who would act upon it in your absence? I wish you could make a visit to Trenton convenient. More organization is indispensable. Several things of material concern are to be arranged. I shall go there with General Wilkinson as soon as he arrives from Boston whither he lately went. Your cooperation would be important. If you come with this view it must be speedy."
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  Illegible Text

  Document quality renders text mostly illegible. Delivery of wagon loads;
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons notifies Huntingdon of a failure to comply with previous instructions.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Depart. to Messrs Buell & Greenleaf

  Simmons received an account from Buell and Greenleaf for manufacturing cavalry swords. Simmons requests to be provided with confirmation of delivery.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs Jackson that Capt. Lemuel Gates' receipt was received.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons forwards for Hodgdon's records an abstract of articles furnished to U.S. troops.
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  Accounts of Articles Furnished by William Colfax to Garrisons at Fort Jay and West Point

  Accounts of Articles Furnished by William Colfax to Garrisons at Fort Jay and West Point and to 12th Infantry Regiment at East Chester under command of Colonel Smith.
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  Receiving pay for army services

  Responds to Dr. Osborne's request that he be paid his dues for serving as surgeon's mate from June 1 to August 9. McHenry's tone is particularly brutal, as he chastises Osborne for not knowing the proper channels for receiving pay.
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  Military Appointments, Winter Quarters

  Refers to an appointment [illegible]. Mentions the winter quarters of a regiment.

• [Untitled]

  Letter, Citation only

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Discharging Arrearages of Pay and Subsistence

  "In the pressure of business I omitted to mention in my letter of this day that a calculation had been made previously to the receipt of yours of the 23d instant for sending as much money to the new regiments at this time as would discharge all arrearages of pay and subsistence up to the 30th of this month inclusive. This will amount to rather more than two months pay to some of the officers who have generally received four in advance. And from the best information I possess it will not far exceed two months pay generally to the soldiers who have in some instances been paid a moiety by the paymasters as will appear by the schedule of advances forwarded this day..."

• I can have but faint hopes of relief in case of accident...

  Although he is able to send the money to the regiments soon, Swan worries that a robbery of the mail or other accident may interfere and therefore damage his reputation irreparably.