Estimate for Supplies and Services for the Military Stores Department
Document 1793From Quartermaster General's Dept. and Commissary of Military Stores Dept. Account Book. Estimates for listed supplies and services in the Military Stores Department
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Estimate for the following Supplies &
Services in the Military Store Department —
Philada August 1st 1775
to pay for 2 field Carriages Compleat for 3 lb field
Howitzin - - - - - - 100 Dollars each $102. 10.
4 Garrison Carriages for twenty four pound
Ordnance - - - $2275 45. 10.
20 Ditto for 18 Pounders $2275 227. 10.
100 Barrels for Powder - - - $18 18. 15.
Cleaning & repairing & Oiling five thousand
Muskets & Bayonets - - - - $319 375. 0. 0
Amount of Capt Jeremiah Fisher's Account
for Storeage of Powder in Magazine 63. 2. 8
Amount of Capt Kelly's Account for freight
of flour to Savanna in Georgia 124. 18. 1
Amount of Abraham Harle, Morse &co
Transportation due to the Troops & Teamsters 12. 2. 5
John Nicholson for furnishing 2,000 Muskets
Bhorords à 3 Cents ea 22. 10.
Ditto for 273 Cask Gun Kings — $46 38. 2. 6
Jacob Martin for 23 Iron Cask William $18 18.
Hire Labourers to the Stores for June & July 25. 2.
John Clauses for Painting 200 Barracks &c 1. 2. 2
John Dardorra for 200 Knapsack Belts Capts 12. 10.
Dollars 1015. 32
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
From Quartermaster General's Dept. and Commissary of Military Stores Dept. Account Book. Estimates for listed supplies and services in the Military Stores Department
Date
08/01/1793
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1793080190155
Page start
71
Notable persons
Captain Jeremiah Fisher
Captain Shelley
Abraham Hunt
John Nicholson
Jacob Martin
laborers in the stores
John Clawgers
John Davison
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Savannah
Georgia
Trenton
Notable items
pay
field carriages
howitzers
garrison carriages
twenty-four pound ordnance
18 pounders
barrels for powder
cleaning, repairing, oiling
muskets
bayonets
Captain Jeremiah Fisher's account
storage
powder
magazine
Captain Shelley's account
freight
stores
Abraham Hunt's account
transportation
troops
inspecting
buff gun slings
arm chests
painting
haversacks
knapsack belts
dollars

