Report from West Point on Clothing, Arriving Recruits, & Arms Cleaning
Document 1786Reports returns sent to Knox of the clothing inventory at West Point and of the recruits recently arrived. Reports 500 stands of arms were cleaned.
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West Point 2d March 1780
Yours of 8th Instant I received by Mr Ketcham. But the other Letter you mention I have never seen —
I have embraced the first Opportunity to Comply with your List, and enclosed is a Return of the Cloathing I have received here, and the States Belonging to the Books —
I have also enclosed a Return of all the recruits that have been at this place, Including Am. Sergts and from Gen. Lee, Walley has sent him by Land —
I have given Mr James Harrow another Certificate for Claiming three hundred Pounds of Arms which Makes up the Number of fifteen Hundred —
I have drawn an Order upon you in favour of Capt. Samuel Jeffords for One Hundred and Twenty Dollars agreeable to your Direction —
I am Sir
The Honorable Frajas Gd Rivera
Secretary at War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Reports returns sent to Knox of the clothing inventory at West Point and of the recruits recently arrived. Reports 500 stands of arms were cleaned.
Date
03/10/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786031040155
Page start
26
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Secretary at War
William Price
Mr. Ketcham
troops
recruits
sergeant
men
Lieutenant Willcox
James Manson
Captain Samuel Jeffries [ Jeffords ]
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Notable items
return
clothing
certificate
stands of arms
order
dollars
directions

