American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

VOORHEES, P.G. Autograph letter signed ("P.G. Voorhees"), Commanding "N.W. Armys." Head Quarters, Fort Meigs, 13 April 1813. 1p, approx. 8 x 12 1/4 in. (creasing at folds, small loss at left edge line, approx. separated along center fold, adhesive repair to verso). Vorhees certifies that "there is due to the men employed in the Quarter Masters department from the first day of February to the thirteenth day of April 1813 Inclusive Fifteen hundred and Eighty seven rations of whiskey, thirty one hundred and seventy nine and a half rations soap, twenty eight hundred and ninety-five rations Candles and Thirty three Hundred and fifty five and half rations of vinegar...."

[With:] BRYSON, Captain James W. Bryson. Letter signed ("James W. Bryson"), likely as assistant deputy quartermaster general at Newport, Kentucky. Integral address leaf addressed to "Major Hawkins / Aid[e] de Camp," likely Joseph H. Hawkins (1786-1823), aide decamp of Brigadier General Green Clay, Kentucky Militia, 1st Brigade. N.p., 8 April 1813. 1p, approx. 6 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (creasing at folds, toning). Bryson writes, "The horses as they arrive in Cincinnati will be left with Mr. Glenn, Agt of J.H. Piatt, D Commissary."

Built by General Harrison in February 1813, Fort Meigs was sieged unsuccessfully by the British and their Indian allies throughout the spring and summer of that year. The British, supported by Tecumseh's Confederacy, failed to capture the fort during the siege of Fort Meigs. It is named in honor of Ohio governor Return J. Meigs Jr., for his support in providing Major General William Henry Harrison with militia and supplies for a line of forts in Ohio and the Indiana Territory.