Request for manpower calculations regarding cutting ship frames
Document 1794Knox requests that Humphreys add to his calculations the number of men it would require to cut the frame of one of the vessels in Georgia in two months.
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War Department
April 10 1794
Sir
Be so good as to add to your other calculations how many men it would require in two months to cut the frame of one of those vessels in Georgia —
I am
Your obedt servant
H Knox
Mr Joshua Humphreys
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Knox requests that Humphreys add to his calculations the number of men it would require to cut the frame of one of the vessels in Georgia in two months.
Date
04/10/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1794041000001
Page start
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Notable persons
Joshua Humphreys
Henry Knox
constructor
Secretary of War
men
workers
wood cutters
Robert Young
Benjamin Sparrah
Notable locations
War Department
Georgia
New Bern
North Carolina
Notable items
frame
vessels
live oak
wood cutting
frigate construction
calculations
beams