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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] McDOUGALL, Alexander. Autograph letter signed to Nathanael Greene, Philadelphia, 15 August 1780. 2pp., folio, wear at folds obscuring a few words.
GETTING BETTER PAY FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD
McDougall pledges to fight "narrow minded souls" who want to pinch pennies when it comes to providing for the widows and children of officers killed fighting for for American independence. “Provisions will be made for the wives & families of officers who have or may die or be slain in the service as ample as we could wish. And I am in expectation of getting the pay of the general officers advanced 50 Cents from the 1st of January 1777…Congress are disposed to do the Army justice as far as its in their power, but some mean narrow minded souls among them artfully cast impediments in the way of doing it, in a proper manner and with that Liberallity which our services merit. However I shall leave no stone unturned to accomplish the objects of my errand here, and shall therefore stay till the finishing hand is given to the work; altho the place is become exceedingly disagreeable to me…”
GETTING BETTER PAY FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD
McDougall pledges to fight "narrow minded souls" who want to pinch pennies when it comes to providing for the widows and children of officers killed fighting for for American independence. “Provisions will be made for the wives & families of officers who have or may die or be slain in the service as ample as we could wish. And I am in expectation of getting the pay of the general officers advanced 50 Cents from the 1st of January 1777…Congress are disposed to do the Army justice as far as its in their power, but some mean narrow minded souls among them artfully cast impediments in the way of doing it, in a proper manner and with that Liberallity which our services merit. However I shall leave no stone unturned to accomplish the objects of my errand here, and shall therefore stay till the finishing hand is given to the work; altho the place is become exceedingly disagreeable to me…”