Collection

• RE Organization of Individual Regiments

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments

• 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 Courts-Martial and Infractions of Military Discipline

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline

• RE Courts-Martial and Infractions of Military Discipline

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline

• RE Recommendations for Army and Navy Appointments

  Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments

• 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 Recommendations for Army and Navy Appointments

  Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments.
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  Requests Information about Clothing Shipment; Land on Little Miami

  Has heard that Meigs has retired as Clothier for the Army, but has received no official word. Requests information about retirement and business as it stands. Asks about quantity of clothing sent to Fort Massac as a deposit for special needs; requests information about how shipment was dispersed. Hodgdon and Pickering own land on the Little Miami, surveyed by Col. Anderson. Requests information.
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  Seeks Information about Clothing Shipment Sent to Col. Meigs

  Refers to returns for Clothing, Indian Department. No credit can be obtained unless the accounts match. Requests account of receipts, deliveries, and vouchers. Clothing was forwarded to Col. Meigs with no account of how the shipment was dispersed. Wonders if some of it arrived at Mr. Sibley in Detroit. Must compare to original invoices. Sends regards to Dr. Brown.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs Read of his balance on the books of the Accountant's Office.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Hagner informs Fish that his receipts were received.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay
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  Regarding Defenses of Baltimore & Boston, & Medical Establishment of the Army

  Defends his actions surrounding the appropriations for the defense of Baltimore, promises to transmit all his correspondence with the Baltimore Naval Committee to Adams, as well as information on the fortifications at Boston. Explains specific reasoning of the medical establishment regulation act. Discusses possibility of a limited filling of some of the offices created by this act. Recommends certain individuals for these purposes. Appended are "An Act to Regulate the Medical Establishment" of the U.S. Army, and a list of the names of those who have applied to be appointed chaplains in the army of the United States.
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  Delivery of Medicine and Stores Chest

  Orders to deliver medicine to 12th Regiment in New York.

• Officers for Whom the Elements of Fortifications have been Transmitted

  "I transmit under cover to you for each of the officers named in the enclosed list [see below] a copy of the elements of fortifications and request you would have the same forwarded to them respectively..."
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  Simmons bought for the Pay Master General 44.1 yards of carpeting.

  James Simmons bought carpet from Mary Dally for the paymaster general. Carpet was delivered to James Wevill [Weville].
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  Return of Clothing Made & Sent to the War Stores

  This is the return of clothing made and sent into the War Stores by Thomas Billington from April 6th through August 24th. Billington also pledges to have 2,738 private infantry coats made within sixty days not withstanding the large number of people leaving the city because of the prevailing sickness. He hopes to be compensated for the extra effort he has expended in meeting his obligations to the United States.

• Cited Document

  Cited letter or document; cited in Simmons to Boss, 08/19/1799.

• Cited Document

  Cited letter or document; cited in Simmons to Ellery, 08/14/1799.

• RE Recommendatios for Army and Navy Appointments

  Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments

• Subsistance and Allowance for Recruiting Officers

  "...Some of my officers are so distressed for money that I have been obliged to procure a loan to enable them to go on with the recfruiting service. Their expenses in continually removing from post to post has entirely exhausted their resources and I trust it will be convenient at all events to send on at least their subsistance and allowance for recruiting."
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  Convention

  Washington thanks McHenry for forwarding a copy of J.B. Bordley's Essays and Notes on Husbandry (1799). Discusses the complications of international politics, the Convention of 1800, and allegations of bribery by the editor of the Aurora (newspaper).
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  Osborn requesting a copy of his court-martial transcript and clarification of the date his pay ended

  This document appears to contain two letters; the first is a request for a copy of the decision pertaining to Osborn's court-martial to be sent to him. The second notes that Osborn received a letter from Alexander Hamilton which informed him his pay and emoluments ended on the 9th. Osborn asks McHenry whether they ended on the 9th or the 1st of June, as Osborn has not received a cent.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

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