Series I: Papers , 1776-1795, 1834-1835 .

Containers:

Box 1-33

Extent:

Extent: 14.85 cu. ft. (33 boxes).

Scope and content:

Papers, 1776-1795 and 1834-1835, including accounts, bills, certificates, correspondence, orders, pay rolls, receipts, and vouchers regarding George Rogers Clark's campaign in the Illinois Campaign and the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution and his efforts to be reimbursed by Virginia for his wartime expenditures. The bulk of the collection consists of accounts, receipts, and vouchers. The correspondence mainly relates to Clark's accounts and repayment of accounts, although some of the correspondence is military in nature.

The accounts contain the names of persons to whom payments were made, the amounts, items purchased, and the dates paid. The vouchers include the names of persons to whom money was owed, items purchased, amounts, and dates the vouchers were submitted. Items purchased include clothing, blankets, tobacco, food supplies (corn, flour, pork, rum, salt), powder and lead for guns, iron pots and kettles, tomahawks, supplies given to the Indian tribes, accounts to have boats and wagons built, payment for the use of horses, among others. Also included are receipts for militia pay, names of people who worked as spies, provision returns, and pay rations for troops.

Correspondents include Daniel Boone; John Bowman; Daniel Brodhead; Benjamin Clark; Henry Clinton, Sir; Anthony Crockett; John Dodge; John Donelson; John Floyd; John Girault; Charles Gratiot; Governor Benjamin Harrison; Governor Patrick Henry; Governor Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Logan; Pierre Menard; John Montgomery; James Monroe; Robert Patterson; Oliver Pollock; William Preston; Governor Edmund Randolph; Philippe Francois de Rastel Rocheblave, Chevalier de; Isaac Shelby; George Slaughter; Levi Todd; Robert Todd; John Williams; and James Winchester, among others. The correspondence mainly relates to Clark's accounts and repayment of accounts, although some of the correspondence is military in nature. Topics include supplies (requesting provisions and payment of bills); relationships, movements, and treaties with Native Americans; reporting activities of the British and French; situation in the Illinois country; appointments of officers, payments to soldiers, and military issues, among others. Included are accounts and letters relating to the Chickasaw, Delaware, Kaskaskia, Kickapoo, Ottawa, Piankishaw, and Shawnee Tribes.

The papers were microfilmed and the microfilm numbers are noted in the container listing. The microfilm copies should be used instead of the originals which are fragile in nature.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

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