Clothing & Arms for Ensign McLean's Recruits
Document 1794Ensign Levi McLean at Lancaster has been very successful in recruiting and applies for a further supply of clothing. Hodgdon is directed to pack up and send to Ensign McLean twenty suits of infantry clothing and twenty stands of arms and accoutrements. If knapsacks are in store, a supply of them should also be sent.
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War Department, February 22, 1794
Sir
Ensign Levi McClean, at Lancaster is very successful in recruiting, and applies for a further supply of clothing — [strikethrough: the Secretary of War requests that] you will [strikethrough: please have] packed up, and sent to Ensign McClean, twenty suits of infantry clothing, and twenty Stand of Arms and Accoutrements — If there are knapsacks in Store please also to forward a supply —
I am Sir
with esteem,
Your very humble Servt
Samuel Hodgdon Esq.
[Letter from the War Office Feby 22d 1794 relating to Clothing for Ensign Levi McClean at Lancaster]
Type
Autograph Letter
Description
Ensign Levi McLean at Lancaster has been very successful in recruiting and applies for a further supply of clothing. Hodgdon is directed to pack up and send to Ensign McLean twenty suits of infantry clothing and twenty stands of arms and accoutrements. If knapsacks are in store, a supply of them should also be sent.
Date
02/22/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1794022280001
Page start
1
Note
There is no signature but the handwriting is John Stagg's.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Ensign Levi McLean
recruits
John Stagg
Notable locations
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
War Department
Notable items
recruiting
supply
clothing
infantry clothing
suits
stands of arms
accoutrements
knapsacks

