Financial Documents for Presque Isle

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Financial Documents for Presque Isle

Description

Enclosed pay and muster roll and voucher of expenditures for troops stationed at Presque Isle. Also enclosed pay advance for Capt. Crawford, authorized by Col. Butler, who needed to support his destitute family.

year created

1795

month created

10

day created

17

author

sent from location

Pittsburgh

recipient

in collection

in image

notable person/group

William Simmons
Isaac Craig
recruits
troops
detachment
Captain Crawford
Colonel Butler
accountant
family

notable location

Pittsburgh
Presque Isle
Presque'isle
War Department
frontier
territory
upper posts of the Ohio
Ohio River

notable item/thing

return
muster roll
pay roll
voucher
receipt
pay and subsistence
accounts

notable idea/issue

aggregate amounts
pay advance

document number

1795101779001

page start

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (1 pages) IAR41 (1 pages) Collection: James Robertson Papers IIC290

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Isaac Craig Pittsburgh [n/a]
Recipient William Simmons [unknown] [n/a]