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Title: United States. Congress to Benjamin Franklin, 1778 October 26; United States. Continental Congress. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:12052
Description: Congress writes to Benjamin Franklin about the financing the war.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Economy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses
Date: 1778-10-26; 2022

Title: United States, Continental Congress resolutions; No. 1363 United States, Continental Congress (Charles Thomson, secretary)
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:632
Description: Two resolutions regarding the states paying into the Continental treasury specified quotas of million and submitting returns for same; includes the notation: "Georgia being invaded is hereafter to raise the Proportion."; "Extract from the Minutes."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Politics and Causes of Revolution; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States. Continental Congress
Date: 1779-10-06; 2021

Title: Madison, James, Bland, Theodorick, and Lee, Arthur to Benjamin Harrison, 1782 September 3; No. 1738 James Madison, Jr., Theodorick Bland, Jr. and Arthur Lee to Benjamin Harrison
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:889
Description: Inform him that they presented in Congress a resolution of the [Virginia] Assembly regarding the emission of money of 18 March 1780 and the destruction of Continental money by the commissioners of Virginia; inform him that the resolution of Congress [of 27 Aug. 17821 regarding the garrison at Yorktown, [Va.] has been transmitted to him; inform him that they will send a copy of a petition from the inhabitants of Kentucky, which is suspected to be spurious; point out that if western lands are ceded to the United States, they might be used to pay the national debt; inform him about a rumor that the combined fleets of France, Spain, and the Netherlands have taken vessels of the [British] "Quebec fleet" in the English Channel.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Bland, Theodorick, 1742-1790et al; Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792et al
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; United States. Congress
Date: 1782-09-03; 2021

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1779 December 9; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20739
Description: Letter from Udny Hay to Nathanael Greene. Grievances of the assistant quartermasters; thinks Congress in all fairness ought to take them up. Waggoners' certificates. The advantage of building two vessels. Complaints of artificers well founded, but out of his power to remedy. Number of shoes purchased. Clothing wanted. Suggests Colonel Lewis laying in a stock of forage.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Continental Army--Military life; Forage; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Clothing and dress; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-12-09; 2022

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1779 December 9; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20949
Description: Letter from Udny Hay to Nathanael Greene. New and almost insurmountable difficulties. Cannot obtain forage owing to lack of money. Nothing can save his department from ruin, and the army from disbanding but the adoption of a new mode of obtaining forage; explains this in detail. The impending storm could have been averted by an opportune supply of cash.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Continental Army--Military life; Forage; Quartermasters; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-12-09; 2022

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1779 February 10; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23972
Description: Letter from Udny Hay to Nathanael Greene. Fishkill - Large supply of cash lately furnished, inadequate to pay the demands on the department; therefore entreats for another supply; thinks 0,000 will cover all debts. Desires his opinion on how fatigue men should be raised for the ensuing campaign; also the wages of certain workmen. Dispute with the justices as to the means of procuring teams. Legislature has brought in a bill nearly adopting his own plan for furnishing teams for the public service. The advantage of a uniform price in certain articles. Inconvenience of having no Justice of the Peace nearer than ten miles. Money needed to pay for wintering the horses.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; Quartermasters; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; United States. Army--Pay, allowances, etc.; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-02-10; 2022

Title: Pettit, Charles to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 11; Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22257
Description: Letter from Charles Pettit to Nathanael Greene. Philadelphia - Colonel Steel in town with his accounts; will examine them in a day or two; at a loss how to break to him General Greene's wish of dropping him; he is pressing for a sum of money to send to Fort Pitt. Will give Colonel Hooper's demands the preference to all others, but when is uncertain, owing to depleted state of his coffers. Delay in getting the five millions he applied for. The Board of War in high dudgeon with Colonel Wadsworth owing to a letter just received from him respecting the Commissary department, containing sentiments a benevolent mind would not harbor respecting any but a set of villains. Plans of Congress for the restoration of money. Settlement of his accounts.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Forage; Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-11; 2022