Certification of payment; James Leaky, contractor, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital stores furnished recruits of Lieutenant Hancock, Kempsville, Virginia
States that the Quarter Master General has received instructions to provide the transportation necessary for the return of offices from Trenton to Philadelphia.
The Quartermaster General has received instructions to provide transportation for the offices of the War Department. Simmons should inform McHenry of the land and water transportation needs of his office. Wagons should be ready on Monday morning.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Sundry vouchers for cash expended in Quarter Masters Department by Captain Vance on the Expedition to Northampton. These are sent separately from the others by order of General Wilkins.
James Miller, agent to John Wilkins, Quarter Master General, sends sundry vouchers of disbursements in the Quarter Master Department on the Expedition to Northampton.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.
Pending McHenry's approval, Hamilton has authorized the erection of a fort at Loftus's Height so long as it built within the estimate of the cost provided by General Wilkinson. He does not recommend paying for boats to transport 3,000 men down the Mississippi but the vessel is ready to transport the artillery and stores.
