Invoice of ordinance and military stores shipped on brig Noah's Ark and subsequent report on whereabouts and condition
Document 1794Inventory of military stores shipped from Philadelphia to Wilmington North Carolina on the Brig Noah's Ark for Griffith McRea in the year 1794. A subsequent note dated April 1798 by Griffith McRea indicates that the stores were found in a warehouse. The stores were in damaged condition, particularly the fuses and powder. Some of the equipment, mortars, cannon, traveling carriages, are located at Fort Johnston
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[No 1
Statement of Artillery
Stores forwarded, &c
by John Miles Esqr
to the Magazine Agt
Entered February
93/185 M
835 M]
[stamp: Nov. 22 R.P.O. 40180]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Inventory of military stores shipped from Philadelphia to Wilmington North Carolina on the Brig Noah's Ark for Griffith McRea in the year 1794.
A subsequent note dated April 1798 by Griffith McRea indicates that the stores were found in a warehouse. The stores were in damaged condition, particularly the fuses and powder. Some of the equipment, mortars, cannon, traveling carriages, are located at Fort Johnston
Date
04/23/1794
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1794042328001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Henry Skinner
Griffith McRee
John Stagg
clerk
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Wilmington North Carolina
warehouse
Fort Johnston
Notable items
military stores
inventory
damaged stores
fuzes
cannon
powder
mortars
traveling carriages
brass mortars
limbers
ammunition boxes
paper cartridges
rammers
plungers
sponge
Brigantine Noah's Ark
port fire
gouge bits
flannel cartridges
gunner's hammers
cannon covers
drag ropes
ladles
cannon spikes
screw bits
slow match
gunner's bits