Letter to Thomas Pinckney from Andrew Pickens, November 12, 1787
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Letter to Thomas Pinckney from Andrew Pickens, November 12, 1787
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Date
November 12, 1787
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Pickens relays the activities and orders of different colonels
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Pinckney, Thomas, 1750-1828
Cox, Danielle
Perkins, Erin (transcription),
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Ms. 121, Andrew Pickens Papers, 1782-1804
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English
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Transcription
Long Cane 12th November: 1787
Dear Sir
Your Excellency knows of the 31th ultamo I have had this pleasure to Receive on the 10th inst with the enclosures for the different Colonels- I have filled up the blanks and arranged the Reviews in that way which I thought would be most convenient for you and have sent by express to each of them. I have Diverted each of the Colonels to collect their men in the most centrical and convenient place within their Ragements — Col. Philomon Watters Raget:, which is in the fork between Broad and Saludy Rivers, to be Reviewed on wensday the 5th of December, Col Leavy [illegible] Ragt: on Friday the 7th- Col: Brandons on monday the 10th, Col: Whites on wensday the 12th- Col Woods in Greenvele County, Friday the 14th, Col: Andersons in the upper Devetion above the antient boundary line, on monday the 17th and in the lower Devition of his Ragement on wensday the 19th and Col Purvis Raget: on Friday the 21th day of December- perhaps in this arrangement of the Reviews I have obliged your Excellency to Ride more than 25 miles a day however that you must impute to your wish to be in town on a certain day– their will be a grait number of blank commissions wanting in the different
Regiments Col Watters was none of the field officers in that Raget: is commissioned- unless it is since I Resigned
I have the Honour to be your Excellencys
most obedient and very
Humble Servant
Andw Pickens
to Governor Pinnkney
12th Novb 1787
Dear Sir
Your Excellency knows of the 31th ultamo I have had this pleasure to Receive on the 10th inst with the enclosures for the different Colonels- I have filled up the blanks and arranged the Reviews in that way which I thought would be most convenient for you and have sent by express to each of them. I have Diverted each of the Colonels to collect their men in the most centrical and convenient place within their Ragements — Col. Philomon Watters Raget:, which is in the fork between Broad and Saludy Rivers, to be Reviewed on wensday the 5th of December, Col Leavy [illegible] Ragt: on Friday the 7th- Col: Brandons on monday the 10th, Col: Whites on wensday the 12th- Col Woods in Greenvele County, Friday the 14th, Col: Andersons in the upper Devetion above the antient boundary line, on monday the 17th and in the lower Devition of his Ragement on wensday the 19th and Col Purvis Raget: on Friday the 21th day of December- perhaps in this arrangement of the Reviews I have obliged your Excellency to Ride more than 25 miles a day however that you must impute to your wish to be in town on a certain day– their will be a grait number of blank commissions wanting in the different
Regiments Col Watters was none of the field officers in that Raget: is commissioned- unless it is since I Resigned
I have the Honour to be your Excellencys
most obedient and very
Humble Servant
Andw Pickens
to Governor Pinnkney
12th Novb 1787
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Citation
Pickens, Andrew, 1739-1817, “Letter to Thomas Pinckney from Andrew Pickens, November 12, 1787,” Charleston Library Society Digital Collections, accessed May 13, 2024, https://charlestonlibrarysociety.omeka.net/items/show/1412.