Collection

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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons authorizes Fish to make payments.
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  Records of John Wilkins, Quarter Master General.

  Account for payments to various individuals for furniture.
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  Account of Medicines Expended July to Dec 1798 by Doctor Hugh Scott at Fort Fayette

  Encloses account exhibited by Doctor Hugh Scott for medicines furnished troops of United States. Asks that Gillaspy examine and assess what amount should be paid.

• Letter to Mr. Graves

  Letter from Oliver Peabody to Rufus Graves. Image not available.

• Letter to General Wilkinson

  Letter from Thomas Cushing to General James Wilkinson. Image not available.

• [Untitled]

  Letter, Citation only

• Letter to the War Department Accountant

  Letter from Lieutenant James Tripplett to William Simmons, War Department Accountant. Citation only.

• Letter to the War Department Accountant

  Letter from Captain Lemuel Gates to William Simmons, War Department Accountant. Citation only.

• Letter from the Supervisor in Massachusetts

  Letter from Jonathan Jackson, Federal Supervisor of the Revenue in Massachusetts, to William Simmons, War Department Accountant. Image not available, citation only.

• Letter to the War Department Accountant

  Letter from Samuel Eddins to William Simmons, War Department Accountant. Image not available, citation only.

• Letter to the War Department Accountant

  Letter from Captain James Stille to William Simmons. Citation only.

• Cited Document

  Cited letter or document; cited in Simmons to Shepard, 07/24/1799.

• 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 Infractions of Military discipline & Organization of Individual Regiments

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

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

• RE Applications for Army Appointments and Promotions

  Routine applications for Army appointments and promotions

• Injurious Acts of the Disaffected Part of the Country

  Adlum claims that dividing his force would cause it to appear small in the eyes of people he calls "the disaffected part of the Country." He accuses these "Democrats" of interfering with recruiting and encouraging deserters. He believes that many of them would even join the French if they invaded the United States.

• [Untitled]

  Letter, Citation only
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  Dissatisfaction with Character of Officer Applicant

  Describes meeting an applicant for an officer's appointment, and seems dissatisfied with his character.

• Agents have no system for apportioning supplies...

  Apparently the agents of the War Department have no system for apportioning supplies. As a result, some regiments have a shortage of some articles while others have an abundance of the same articles. In some instances, orders to resolve shortages have been sent but in others that is not the case. Despite the pressures of business, McHenry should be aware of these problems.

• Supplementing the Abstract of Returns

  The enclosed abstract shows that the returns are not complete due to imperfections in the forms (which will soon be remedied). The additional sources of pertinent information available in the War Department should therefore be forwarded to the Superintendant of Military Stores so that he can transmit the required amounts of clothing and other supplies.

• Progress in Supplying Clothing to Recruits

  "The information respecting the causes which have interfered with the supply of clothing contained in your letter of the 10th instant received on Saturday is in train to be communicated by a circular letter. I am glad to find that so much progress has been made. If the Contractor delivers in two thirds of the daily quantity he promises and the articles are expeditiously forwarded, it will suffice. The recruiting service will consequently be permitted to proceed without interruption. An abstract of the returns of recruits is in preparation for you."

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

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

• [Untitled]

  Letter, Citation only

• Interference with an Adequate Supply of Clothing

  Circular to the Commandants of Regiments: "Agreeably to the intimation of the Secretary of War, I transmit you an extract of a letter from of the tenth instant by which you will perceive the causes which have hitherto interfered with a supply of clothing adequate to the demand. If the assurance of the Contractor can in any degree be relied upon, the supply in future will more than keep pace with it."