Supplies for New Posts
Document 1794Forward howitzers and grape shot to Nashville for General Robertson who will establish posts in the West.
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Philadelphia [undecipherable]
Dear Sir No. [undecipherable]
In Hamilton's Invoice for the load that accompanies this, is inserted six Iron Howitzers and six Boxes of Grape Shot for them — these are to be sent to Fort Washington to be from thence forwarded to Nashville to the address of General Robertson for the use of some of the Posts to be established under his direction — Please to attend particularly to this business that neither dis-appointment or delay may be complained of — an additional quantity of stores will be forwarded shortly to compleat the order for the Guns now sent —
I am /
Yr.
Your most obedt. Sft.
Samuel Hodgdon
Major Isaac Craig.
[Address panel: Major Isaac Craig / Pittsburgh.]
[Endorsements: undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Forward howitzers and grape shot to Nashville for General Robertson who will establish posts in the West.
Date
05/17/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1794051736001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 06/13/1794.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
General Robertson
Hamilton
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Nashville
Fort Washington
Notable items
invoice
iron howitzers
grape shot
stores

