The amount of goods for the tributes to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians will be sent Monday next for transportation. Harris has received a number of articles marked "For Colonel Hawkins and Silas Dunsmore" There is a requisition of articles for Colonel Hawkins that is not yet complete. Among articles not received are blacksmith's tools and camp kettles.
Cited in Wayne to McHenry, 10/28/1796. Wayne provides further instructions for capturing the three enemy agents operating in the west (Thomas Powers, Victor de Collot and Joseph Warin), relating their known movements. He states that a supply of commissaries and ammunition has been ordered for the use of Pike's post. Pike is told to examine the boat minutely, in search of papers, which are to be read if found.
Discusses Fleming's account in regards to payment made to the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. The Secretary of War to consider the matter of disbursing monies per an officer's requisition
Simmons certifies that $107.50 is due Edmund H. Quincy, being his compensation as Clerk of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from July through September 1796.
Simmons certifies that $20.27 is due John Gilmor, late a private in Captain Ballard Smith's Company 1st US Regiment, being his pay from January 1 to November 4, 1791 following the day of his death, which sum is payable to his wife and administratrix, Dorothy Gilmor.
Saunders assumed the letter and certificate he sent upon request of Hagner was not read and therefore included copies of each in this letter for reimbursement and pay for Aug. Sept. and Oct.
Cover letter for receipts of Joseph Granch, Horatio Dayton, and Nehemiah Freeman. Notifies Simmons that he has paid Lt. William Willson and his men. And encloses his account as agent for the War Department.
Three receipts credited to Fish's account. His pay for receiving and paying monies for the War Department. Funds for the pay of Lt. Willson and his men for September.
