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I have had the honor to receive your letter dated the 7th. of January, and communicated it to the Commissioners of the Navy from whom I have received the enclosed answer.
Not having been in this Department at the time when the matter was referred to and reported on by the Commissioners, I have no ^other^ means of information than is afforded by the documents; all of which, I believe, have been... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Samuel Lewis Southard
Recipient: MVB
Mr Van Buren presents his compliments to the Secretary of the navy & takes the liberty of reminding him of the Warrant for young Mr. Livingston. Mr V Buren has had but mislaid a memorandum respecting young Barry, has he been appointed Purser or rcd. any other promotion or has he reason to expect it soon or is there any thing done that may be said to his friend in Ny. Mr V Buren will leave... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Samuel Lewis Southard
I have been instructed by the Secretary of the navy to transmit to you the accompanying acting appointment as Midshipman in the Us. navy for Wm. P. Livingston, and to request that you will be pleased to deliver it to him.
In relation to Mr. Berry, he has been an Acting Purser for more than twelve months on board the Us. Schooner Grampus, and would have been nominated to the Senate during the... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: C.H.
Recipient: MVB
I have just been informed by L. Beardsley Esqr. that a new Suit has been made by the U. States, against my father and myself as sureties of my Brother J. Gates Jr. late Paymaster of U. S. Army. You are no doubt well acquainted with the result of this same Case tried before your <drst.> friend the Honl. Judge Skinner in May last. After two or three days examination of the Accounts it... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Gerrit Gates
Recipient: MVB
Will Mr. Pleasonton have the goodness to inform M[r.] V Buren whether the proceedings spoken of in the within can be stayed or denied. Mr Gates is a very worthy man.
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Stephen Pleasonton
I have received your letter of the 30th ult. enclosing an application for the discharge of Augustus V.K. Hubbard, and have directed an inquiry into the facts; and will decide the case as soon as they can be ascertained. In the meantime it is proper to state, that no order has ever been given to discharge a man while actually a deserter.
Sender/Author: Samuel Lewis Southard
Recipient: MVB
I have had the honor to receive your note of the 1st enclosing a letter to you from Gerrit Gates. The suit now pending against the sureties of John Gates, late Paymaster, was instituted for the double prospects of establishing our claim against them, and of vindicating the character of some of our accounting officers, whose official acts, it is alledged, had been misrepresented, on a former trial... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Stephen Pleasonton
Recipient: MVB
Agreeably to the statement made in my letter to you of the 3d inst. an order was sent to Com. Chauncey directing him to enquire into the case of Augustus V.K. Hubbard; and he has informed me in reply, that upon examination, no person, by that name, has deserted from the Receiving Ship at New York between the 1st July, and 11th. December last. If you can furnish any additional particulars in the... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Samuel Lewis Southard
Recipient: MVB
I have received your letter of the 13th inst. with an enclosure in behalf of Mr. Van Ness, who requests the appointment of Purser in the navy.
There are no vacancies now existing in that class of officers – nor is one expected to arise very shortly.
Sender/Author: Samuel Lewis Southard
Recipient: MVB
The writer of the enclosed is a gentleman of high respectability
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: James Barbour
I have had the honor to receive your note of the 30th instant enclosing a letter from Gerret Gates, requesting a further continuance of the case of the United States vs the said Gales. I cannot answer this application better than by enclosing to you a copy of the letter I had the occasion lately to address to General Van Rensselaer on the same subject. In this will be found the reasons which have... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Stephen Pleasonton
Recipient: MVB
I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 23rd instant with one to you, enclosed, from G. A. Worth Esqr one of the sureties of the late General Edmonds. On recurring to the records and letters on file in this office I perceive that Mr. <Hafford>, another surety of General Edmonds, after obtaining a reduction of the balance against General Edmonds to about the sum of five thousand... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: Stephen Pleasonton
Recipient: MVB
I send you a letter from my friend Mr Worth who thought as you will see something of a wag is nevertheless a very clever honest fellow. My concern for his welfare & that of his family is such that did not indisposition prevent I would call upon you in person upon his business. I am not acquainted with his present situation as to money but know that before he went to the West (where he was for... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Stephen Pleasonton
Do me the favouor to return Mr Worths letter by the bearer
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Stephen Pleasonton
The President of the United States having ordered a General Court Martial for the Trial of Gen. Hull, and it being suggested that your Evidence will be material in the case, I am authorised and directed to Summon you immediately to appear, on behalf of the United States, before the General Court Martial, at the City of Albany, in the State of New York.
I am further authorised to assure you, that... Continue Reading
I hereby certify that Capt. O. G. Burton of the 4th U.S. Infantry has attended as a witness in the trial of Brig. Gen. Hull from the seventeenth day of January to the sixteenth day of Feby. 1814 inclusive and that he is hereby discharged
Sender/Author: MVB
The United States
To O. G. Burton Capt. 4th U.S Infy [. . .]
To the transportation of 400 lb. baggage from Irasburgh Vermont to Albany N.Y. the distance being two hundred and thirty miles at two dollars per hundred per hundred miles, by order of the Secrety of War — — —
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To an allowance while traveling of one dollar & twenty five cents per ^day^ five days
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To an allowance... Continue Reading
Mr. <Mc.Anally> a very notable Citizen of Nyork wishes <to> converse with you upon a subject <illegible> to which Mr <Campel> P. <illegible> has had communication [wi]th the Commissioners. If Mr. <illegible> could consistently be gratified I <havee> no doubt that a worthy man <w>ould be served without prejudice to the public intere[st]
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Levi Woodbury
[I] certify that Captn. Abraham Edwards of the 19th. Infantry arrived at this place on the 18th. January as a Witness in the trial of Brig. Genl. William Hull and that he is this day discharged
Sender/Author: MVB
The United States
To Ab. A. Van Buren—Dr.
1814 April
To services in bringing Proceedings of Court Martial in case of The U.S. against Genl. Hull held at Albany, from Albany to the war department at Washington — — —
$125
30 Days travel
$75
Stage expences
50
Admitted the Qur. Master Gen at Albany will pay this account. J. Armstrong
Received from Elisha Jenkins QM General granted One... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
I certify that the Honorable Agustus B Woodward attend as a witness before the General Court martial in the City of Albany for the Trial of Brigadier Genl William Hull in obedience to a summons from the war department, that he arrived in the City of Albany on the Eleventh day of January last and has been discharged this day.
Sender/Author: MVB
The President of the United States having ordered a General Court Martial for the Trial of Gen. Hull, and it being suggested that your Evidence will be material in the case, I am authorised and directed to Summon you immediately to appear, on behalf of the United States, before the General Court Martial, at the City of Albany, in the State of New-York.
I am further authorised to assure you, that... Continue Reading
The President of the United States having ordered a General Court Martial for the Trial of Gen. Hull, and it being suggested that your Evidence will be material in the case, I am authorised and directed to Summon you immediately to appear, on behalf of the United States, before the General Court Martial, at the City of Albany, in the State of New-York.
I am further authorised to assure you, that... Continue Reading
I certify that Reuben Atwater Esqr has attended as a Witness <for> the trial of Genl. Hull from the 8th. of Feby 1814 untill the 19th. March
Sender/Author: MVB
I certify that Elkahah Watson Esquire attended as a witness on the part of the United States in obediance to the written summons that he arrived in the City of Albany on the Twenty eighth day of January and, that, he was discharged on the 22nd day of Feby 1814.
Sender/Author: MVB
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