Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Received invoice for clothing for posts at Niagara and Oswego. Shipments left Philadelphia marked for specific posts and detachments. Upon arrival in New York, it was thought best to transport them by sleigh. Reports state of delivery and requests Rivardi to check all invoices to know what articles are for whom. Transportation through the Albany route is delayed with enormous expense. Requests that Rivardi set the situation straight.
Certification of payments; $160.67 to Captain John M. McClallen, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, difference of pay and subsistence between rank of Captain and Lieutenant.
Certification of payments; Tobias Lear, Secretary to George Washington, General of the Armies of the United States, $470.58 for pay, subsistence, forage from 1 December 1798 to 31 March 1799.
Encloses act for organizing troops, passed 3 March 1799. Requests distribution among commanding officers of nearby posts. Encloses contract with James O'Hara, to be distributed as well.
Reminds Adams of his earlier letter regarding troops sent to put down the insurrection at Northampton, Pennsylvania. McHenry had believed that 5 companies of regulars and two companies of volunteer horsemen would be sufficient, but the small size of the volunteer companies and the perceived greater threat of the insurgents have caused him to ask the governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey to ready their militia. These to amount to 9 companies of cavalry from the former, 8 companies of cavalry from the latter. Details the disposition and origins of units already moving into position in Pennsylvania, saying most have already reached their first rendezvous. The composite force, of about 600 men, is under General MacPherson; a set of the instructions to that officer is enclosed. Hopes that the show of force will be sufficient to halt the insurrection, and reinforce the collection of the land and house tax. Mentions that a Judge Peters had requested, and been dispatched upon, a mission to help the troops arrest the insurgents.
Perkins' son John is dissatisfied with his current employment so Perkins asks Hodgdon to find John a position as an apprentice in some Philadelphia mercantile house in the shipping line.
Forwards copy of contract with James O'Hara to supply western posts. Requests information be forwarded to several commandants, Congress, and various posts.
Encloses proceedings of a general court martial by order of Captain Frederick Frye. Complains that Frye had no such authority and that there was no advocate. Refers to instructions for a court martial.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
"I have made out Mr. Mangin acct. of what I think he ought to be paid for his services [as an Engineer] & I wish you to examine it & if you approve of the same, you will give an order to pay him...I have not made out the price, it is what the military Committee agreed to give him."
