Arms & Carriages for Fort Mifflin
Document 1794Hodgdon is directed to deliver to Captain Jeremiah Fisher for the use of Fort Mifflin fifty shot for twelve pounders and five garrison carriages for eighteen pounders with iron trucks, if in store.
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War Department, March 24 179 4.
Sir.
The Secretary of War requests that you will please to deliver to Captain Jeremiah Fisher for the use of Fort Mifflin, [underline: Fifty Shot for Twelve pounders]; and [underline: Five garrison carriages for eighteen pounders], with Iron Trucks if in store —
Respectfully Yours —
[Signature: Js. Bragg Jun.]
[Signature: undecipherable]
Samuel Hodgdon Esq.r
Commissary of Military Stores —
[Cover endorsement: Letter from the [Secretary of] War / 25 March 1794 / Canvass of [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
[Stamp: Received from War Dept. B.P.O. 401310]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hodgdon is directed to deliver to Captain Jeremiah Fisher for the use of Fort Mifflin fifty shot for twelve pounders and five garrison carriages for eighteen pounders with iron trucks, if in store.
Date
03/24/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1794032415001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
Henry Knox
John Stagg, Jr.
Captain Jeremiah Fisher
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
cannons
carriages
military stores