Payment Due Troops, Construction, Hospital Stores

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Payment Due Troops, Construction, Hospital Stores

Description

Troops all located at Presque Isle, Le Boeuf, and Fort Franklin therefore mustering them at Pittsburgh must be postponed. Money due troops at Presque Isle requested. Expenses related to construction increased Quartermaster's Department expenses, all hospital stores on hand sent to Fort Washington.

year created

1795

month created

11

day created

04

author

sent from location

Pittsburgh

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in collection

in image

notable person/group

Timothy Pickering
Isaac Craig
Colonel Butler
militia
dragoons
Colonel Presley Nevill
Captain Bissell
Doctor Balfour
Major Haskel
Acccountant of the War Department

notable location

Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Presque Isle
Presque'isle
Le Boeuf
Fort Franklin
French Creek
block house
barracks
Fort Washington
Ohio River
upper posts of the Ohio
upper parts of the Ohio
Carlisle

notable item/thing

horses
pay
forage
subsistence
medicine
hospital stores
mustering
paying
dismissing
term of service
estimate
buildings
expenditures
barracks
store house

notable idea/issue

mustering militia
payment due troops
forwarded hospital stores
construction

document number

1795110454001

page start

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) IAR47 (2 pages) Collection: James Robertson Papers IIC313-314

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Isaac Craig Pittsburgh [n/a]
Recipient Timothy Pickering Philadelphia [n/a]