Requests Permission to Begin Airing Powder
Document 1789Price would like to begin airing the powder by the 15th of the month. West Point is in need of a cooper and four thousan hoop poles to complete the process of airing the powder and putting it into barrels. If there were any way to avoid hiring a cooper, Price would not ask to hire one, but there is no man at his post who knows how to set a hoop. Price believes that if he can start by the 15th and the weather is dry the business will be done by November. He sends returns of ordnance and quartermasters stores for May care of Timothy Ketchum.
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Letterbook
Description
Price would like to begin airing the powder by the 15th of the month. West Point is in need of a cooper and four thousan hoop poles to complete the process of airing the powder and putting it into barrels. If there were any way to avoid hiring a cooper, Price would not ask to hire one, but there is no man at his post who knows how to set a hoop. Price believes that if he can start by the 15th and the weather is dry the business will be done by November. He sends returns of ordnance and quartermasters stores for May care of Timothy Ketchum.
Date
06/02/1789
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1789060240055
Page start
41
Note
Page not scanned.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
cooper
Timothy Ketchum
Ketcham
Notable locations
West Point
Notable items
powder
hoop poles
set a hoop
weather
summer
return of ordnance
return of quartermasters stores