Indian Goods and Compensation for Service
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Indian Goods and Compensation for Service
Description
Payment of P.Petil to be completed. Receipt of cash invoices for Indian goods due Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, Delaware, and Weea Nations. R. Cochran delivered Indian goods for Ottawa and Chippewas which are now bound for Le Boeuf. Exasperated with claims submitted for service in clothing and ordnance department that have not been paid. Requests Hodgdon purchase a tract of land facing coal hill in Pittsburgh from Physick.
year created
1797
month created
06
day created
30
author
sent from location
Pittsburgh
recipient
sent to location
Philadelphia
in collection
in image
notable person/group
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig
Peter Petil
Peter Petit
Pottawatomie
Kickapoo
Delaware
Weea
Indians
Indian Nation
Ottawa
Chippewa
Robert Cochran
wagoner
waggoner
Secretary of War
Captain Alexander Fowler
Edmund Physick
agent
Clothing Department
Ordnance Department
Proprietors of Pennsylvania
notable location
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Le Boeuf
Clothing Department
Ordnance Department
Monongahela
river
Pennsylvania
coal hill
notable item/thing
boat
cash invoices
sail
duck blocks
anchors
sloop Detroit
sloop
Indian goods
coal
land
claim of compensation
tract of land
purchase
plan
coal
notable idea/issue
transportation of provisions
Indian goods
credit
repayment
compensation
land purchase
document number
1797063089001
page start
1
transcription
Sir
Pittsburg 30 June 1797
Your letter of the 13th instant by Mr. Peter Petit has been handed to me by him and I have not nor shall I neglect to pay him
every necessary attention he is already accommodated with a boat and expects to embark tomorrow.
Your letter of the 23. Covering four cash Invoices, viz: Delaware, Pottawatmi, Kickapoo & Weea Indian Goods is received
On the 24th Robert Cochean Waggoner arrived and delivered Bale No 1 Ottawa & Box No 5. Chipewa Indian Goods together with the sail duck Planks anchors &ca for the Sloop Detroit in good order and on the 27. articles were shipt for Le Boeuf
I have this day to accommodate Captain Alexander Fowler drawn on you in his favor for 150 dollars at 5 days sight which be pleased to pay and charge as usual
I expect that the Secretary of War would have had leisure in the course of more than a whole year to have decided on my claim of compensation for services in the Cloathing and Ordnance departments. His thus delaying a decision appears somewhat like a contemptuous treatment of my application be pleased to call upon him again at a proper time
And I have also to beg of you to take the trouble of calling upon Edmund Physick agent for the late Proprietors of Pennsylvania, and endeavor to negociate a purchase of a small Tract of land in Pittsbg Manor being a part of the face of the Coal hill the enclosed draft extracted from the General Plan shews that it contains 37 acres 130 perches together with 5 lots of 8 perches each making in the whole about 48 acres & which the former agents had estimated at one dollar per acre, but as I have now an opportunity of improving it to considerable advantage I wish you to purchase it at any price not exceeding 5 dollars per acre
It is probable that Mr. Physick may be unacquainted that there is not an acre of tillable Land on all that tract the whole of it being a
precipice and not at all valuable to Pittsburg for the Strata of Coal that it contains the town being more conveniently supplied from the other side of the Manangahela
I am
Sir,
Your obedt & very Hb. Serv
I. C.
Samuel Hodgdon esq
Philadelphia
Pittsburg 30 June 1797
Your letter of the 13th instant by Mr. Peter Petit has been handed to me by him and I have not nor shall I neglect to pay him
every necessary attention he is already accommodated with a boat and expects to embark tomorrow.
Your letter of the 23. Covering four cash Invoices, viz: Delaware, Pottawatmi, Kickapoo & Weea Indian Goods is received
On the 24th Robert Cochean Waggoner arrived and delivered Bale No 1 Ottawa & Box No 5. Chipewa Indian Goods together with the sail duck Planks anchors &ca for the Sloop Detroit in good order and on the 27. articles were shipt for Le Boeuf
I have this day to accommodate Captain Alexander Fowler drawn on you in his favor for 150 dollars at 5 days sight which be pleased to pay and charge as usual
I expect that the Secretary of War would have had leisure in the course of more than a whole year to have decided on my claim of compensation for services in the Cloathing and Ordnance departments. His thus delaying a decision appears somewhat like a contemptuous treatment of my application be pleased to call upon him again at a proper time
And I have also to beg of you to take the trouble of calling upon Edmund Physick agent for the late Proprietors of Pennsylvania, and endeavor to negociate a purchase of a small Tract of land in Pittsbg Manor being a part of the face of the Coal hill the enclosed draft extracted from the General Plan shews that it contains 37 acres 130 perches together with 5 lots of 8 perches each making in the whole about 48 acres & which the former agents had estimated at one dollar per acre, but as I have now an opportunity of improving it to considerable advantage I wish you to purchase it at any price not exceeding 5 dollars per acre
It is probable that Mr. Physick may be unacquainted that there is not an acre of tillable Land on all that tract the whole of it being a
precipice and not at all valuable to Pittsburg for the Strata of Coal that it contains the town being more conveniently supplied from the other side of the Manangahela
I am
Sir,
Your obedt & very Hb. Serv
I. C.
Samuel Hodgdon esq
Philadelphia
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (3 pages) | IAU62 (3 pages) | Collection: James Robertson Papers | IIE152-154 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Isaac Craig | Pittsburgh | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Samuel Hodgdon | Philadelphia | [n/a] |