Request that Captain Thomas Truxton be permitted purchase blocks

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Knox requests that Coxe approve Captain Truxton's desire to purchase some used blocks, which would be preferable to new ones.

Date

10/09/1794

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Tench Coxe

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters To

Document number

1794100970055

Page start

85

Notable persons

Tench Coxe
Captain Thomas Truxton
Truxtun
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Treasury Department

Notable locations

Philadelphia
War Department

Notable items

blocks
frigate
USS Constellation