Request for Forwarding of Letter to Agent for Fortifications in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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War Department April 2. 1794 Sir I request that you would have the goodness to deliver the enclosed letter to the person who you shall appoint for to disburse the money intended to be expended at Portsmouth for the purposes of the fortifications and mounting the artillery. And I shall be obliged to you to transmit me the name of the said person. I am Sir Your obedient servant H Knox Secretary The Collector of the Port of Portsmouth [Secretary at War. 2. April 1794] [Joseph Whipple Esq^r The collector of the port of Portsmouth New Hampshire] [FREE] [H Knox] [J W E [undecipherable] Med. Staff [undecipherable]]

Type

Letter Signed

Description

Asks that the enclosed letter be transmitted to the Agent for Fortifications and the mounting of guns in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for that person's name to be reported to Knox [the Agent was, in fact, the same Joseph Whipple].

Date

04/02/1794

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Joseph Whipple

Sent from

War Department

Repository

Harvard University: The Houghton Library Manuscript Department

Collection

Joseph & William Whipple Papers

Document number

1794040200301

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Note

Addressed to "The Collector of the Port of Portsmouth," which was Joseph Whipple at this time. Catalogue of Joseph & William Whipple Papers: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01328

Notable persons

Joseph Whipple

Henry Knox

agent of fortifications

collector of the port

Secretary of War

Notable locations

New Hampshire

Portsmouth

War Department

Notable items

guns

mounting of guns

money

fortifications

artillery