Additional Houses

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

The present buildings, independent ot those holding public stores, will not contain more than twenty men. Four or five additional houses therefore must be built. Armstrong has directed the logs to be cut so if Hodgdon can furnish a [?] for two or three days the houses can be completed. Two or more carpenters might be necessary.

Date

11/13/1791

Recipient

Sent from

Fort Hamilton

Document number

1791111380001

Page start

1

Notable persons

Samuel Hodgdon
Captain John Armstrong
carpenters
quartermaster general

Notable locations

Fort Washington
Fort Hamilton
Ohio
officer's quarters

Notable items

buildings
public stores
houses
logs
quartermaster stores
garrison
adzes
augers
chisel
gimlet
window glass
paper
returns
wafers