Muskets and forage
Document 1784Payment for muskets and estimates for forage.
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Sir Philada Feby 23 1784.
Having received another thousand Muskets agreeable to contract I inclose an estimate for one hundred pounds Specie. — also an estimate for forage — Colonel Carrington informs me you had intimated to him an intention of furnishing him through me with three thousand dollars, if it is convenient to issue them, I have a safe conveyance for them — you will please to recollect a small estimate for forage laid before you a few days ago —
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Honble Supt Finance
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Payment for muskets and estimates for forage.
Date
02/23/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1784022328001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Colonel Cariington
Robert Morris
Superintendent of Finance
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
muskets
contract
an estimate for one hundered pounds specie
estimate for forage
intention
three thousand dollars
safe conveyance
small estimate for forage