Letter, 1781 December 1.

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Letter, 1781 December 1.

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Draft of letter from Philip Schuyler, acting as Quartermaster General for the Northern Department of the Continental Army, to Robert Morris, Commissioner of Finance for the Continental Congress. Discusses the distribution of supplies to the troops and to the Indians. Schuyler states that he denied a request for troop supplies submitted by Jelles Fonda on the grounds that an Act of Congress implicitly designated the supples that Fonda desired as strictly for the use of the Indians. Schuyler cites the Act of Congress he bases his case upon and discusses, in detail, the other laws passed by Congress regarding the fulfillment of supply quotas for the United States by the various states of the Union. Draft written at Albany, N.Y.

1 item (10 p.) ; 33 cm.

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