Instructions for Clerks in the Navy Yards
Document 1794This is a form letter to be sent to those who have been appointed as a clerk of the yards where frigates are built. It explains the instructions by which they are to be guided in the performance of their duties.
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Type
Letter/Document (contemporary copy, in third hand, unsigned)
Description
This is a form letter to be sent to those who have been appointed as a clerk of the yards where frigates are built. It explains the instructions by which they are to be guided in the performance of their duties.
Date
08/28/1794
Author
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794082890101
Page start
1
Note
This is a form letter which, based on content, is presumed to have been drafted by Henry Knox.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
clerks
workmen
laborers
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Notable items
frigates
timber
iron
tools