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By a mistake in the draught I sent you of the Arrangement of your Circle Rutland has been mentioned as a pla Rendezvous, instead of Bennington, which latter is the place intended. You will With great consideration I am Sir &c (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Your letters of the twenty-seventh of September and of the fifth of October have been duly received. It is my wish that you would recommend as soon as possible two persons to act as Cadets to your regiment. My former letter on the subject was a Circular, and I supposed that nominations had been made by all the Commandants. Your enquiry on the subject of Winter Quarters has been already replied...
My circular of the 31 of March professes to transmit profers offers a plan for the Division and subdivision of the Circle, within which your Regiment is to be raised. When that letter was written it was supposed that materials for a perfect plan would speedily have been proposed obtained; but prev peculiar circumstances not necessary to be specified, have disappointed that expectation. The...
Inclosed is a letter authorising Your Regimental Pay Master to advance to you 650 Dollars. This sum you will apply towards the payment of 200 Dollars to Benjamin Gales on account of his disbursements for the use of your Regiment, of 200 Dollars to Ephraim Curtis on the like account, of 195 Dollars to your officers for defraying the expences of quarters while on the recruiting service and on...
I enclose to you some papers which will be of importance to you whe n you come, in conjunction with your Majors to revise the arrangement of relative rank for your regiment. With great consideration I am, Sir &c. &c. ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Your different letters of the 25th. 26th & 27th July, and of August 3rd. have been received. Relying on your judgment I consent to the proposed alterations in the regimental rendezvouses, and in the arrangement of the districts. The persons nominated as Adjutant Quartermaster and Paymaster, as also those recommended as Lieutenants have been sent on to the Secretary of War, and have received my...
I have received your several letters of the sixteenth of November, and of the seventh eighth and ninth of December. Upon recurrence to the Contract with Mr. Sheaffe I find that it does not require him to furnish stationary transportation, stationary and the other articles of Quarter Master supply. The removal of this deficiency defect has been a subject of communication with the Sect. of War....
I have received your letter of the eighteenth of this month, and have transmitted a copy of it to the Secretary of War in order that any thing which shall remain to be done in that department may be done. It is however the business of the Contractors to provide the means of furnishing the stipulated supplies—They may apply for advances of money to the Dept. of War but they must procure the...
You will see, from the — enclosed return that a sufficient supply of clothing has been sent on for the present use of your regiment—It appears from a letter of Major Darling to the Secretary of War that he has not received the proportion of supplies to which he is entitled—This has arisen from the last parcel having been sent entirely to Portsmouth. You will therefore take care that a...
Your letters of the second of December and of the first of January have been received. I leave it to your discretion to keep the recently enlisted recruits at their respective rendezvouses during the winter, or to send them on to their encampment at Oxford. They must however be at however march for their encampments quarters by the first of April. I can not see how any difficulty should arise...