Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) to Richard Campbell
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.152 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 July 1778 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 32.5 x 21 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses obtaining clothing and related expenses for a newly raised regiment to be stationed at Fort Pitt. Requests an account of his expenditure of his $60,000 budget. Written at the War Office.
Timothy Pickering (1745-1829), who later served as Secretary of War and Secretary of State, was then an adjutant general in the Continental Army and a member of Board of War in 1777.
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Campbell (1755-1844) of the 13th Virginia was stationed at Fort Pitt in 1778.
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