Iron and Supplies
Document 1792Turnbull and Marnie have inferior iron. Superior iron in Carlisle. Agues iron to be delivered to Pittsburgh. Items to be cast, and price listed. Repairs and pay discussed.
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Pittsburgh 25 April 1793
Sir,
I have applied to Turnbull & [undecipherable] Agent, who informs me that they [undecipherable] provisions have been appointed for the demand of the [undecipherable] stating that he [undecipherable] could not be delivered on [undecipherable] notice before the last of May. I [undecipherable] the necessity of [undecipherable] employing Blacksmiths, [undecipherable] all say that Turnbull & Shannon have a by no means [undecipherable] qualified [undecipherable] and that [undecipherable] claim a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] a much [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for any purpose. I have therefore contracted for [undecipherable] tons of [undecipherable] Iron to be delivered at the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable: Badger?] [undecipherable] thanks to Pittsburgh is [undecipherable] three [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] $50 [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that Turnbull [undecipherable] Hopkins [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probably "substitution at"?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Agency [undecipherable]
yesterday fifty Rifles and [undecipherable] in good order from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] must be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Turnbull and Marnie have inferior iron. Superior iron in Carlisle. Agues iron to be delivered to Pittsburgh. Items to be cast, and price listed. Repairs and pay discussed.
Date
04/22/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1792042254001
Page start
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Notable persons
Henry Knox
Isaac Craig
Turnbull
Marnie
Turnbull and Marmie
agent
blacksmith
Leans
Agues
Lieutenant Jeffers
Indians
Captain Crawford
armorers
paymaster
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Carlisle
Pennsylvania
Fort Franklin
Notable items
forge
iron
quality
gun carriage
bolts
horse shoes
axes
tools
rifles
receipts
military oath
boats
arms
Kentucky boats
oars
horses
abstract
disbursements

