Request for Forwarding of Letter to Agent for Fortifications in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Document 1794Asks 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].
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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 Esqr 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
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1794040200301
Page start
1
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

