Request for New Frigate Model to Allow for New Pattern Kentledge [Ballast]
Document 1794Directs that another model of the frigate(s) to be built be sent to Commissioner of the Revenues Tench Coxe, to make allowance for a new pattern of kentledge [nautical scrap metal for ballast] for those frigates.
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[War department]
[Mr Joshua Humphreys]
[letter from Gen Knox dated Aug. 9. 1795]
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War department
August 1. 1794
Sir,
Mr Coxe, the Commissioner of the Revenue, having made another contract for casting of [underline: Kentledge] for the Frigates, the Secretary of War will be much obliged, if you will have another model made with all possible dispatch, and sent to the Office of Mr — Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Corner of Chesnut and third Streets —
If you will please to take the trouble to call at Gen Hollingsworth's you will there see some of the Kentledge lately cast for the public service with the small alterations made by permission to the pattern you furnished some time ago —
I am,
Sir,
respectfully,
your obedient Servant
[undecipherable: Stagg Jr?]
Mr Joshua Humphreys
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs that another model of the frigate(s) to be built be sent to Commissioner of the Revenues Tench Coxe, to make allowance for a new pattern of kentledge [nautical scrap metal for ballast] for those frigates.
Date
08/01/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1794080115001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joshua Humphreys
John Stagg
commissioner of revenues
Tench Coxe
Levi Hollingsworth
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
kentledge
ballast
frigates
model
pattern

