A Deficiency of Tents
Document 1794Mentges reports a deficiency of tents at Trenton and asks that more be forwarded immediately along with the other articles already requested. Mr Hunt's agent reports a deficiency in horse tents and also notes that numerous officers and others have taken an excessive number of tents for themselves.
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[Address:] Colonel Samuel Hodgdon
on Water [undecipherable] between [undecipherable]
and [undecipherable]
and Philadelphia
[Docket:] Hodgdon Colonel
October 9th 1794
[undecipherable]
Trenton 9th oct.
1794 —
Sir
We shall be in want of about [undecipherable] or 40 tents to Complete us & beg you will forward them immediately that I may [sent?] off the troops also the other articles mentioned to you before I was last night with Mr. [Blunts?] agent, and found that there was a deficiency in tents the Horse and the numerous train of Officers and others have taken to many tents — with Esteem I am
your ob Serv
[undecipherable]
Col Hodgdon.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Mentges reports a deficiency of tents at Trenton and asks that more be forwarded immediately along with the other articles already requested. Mr Hunt's agent reports a deficiency in horse tents and also notes that numerous officers and others have taken an excessive number of tents for themselves.
Date
10/09/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Trenton
Document number
1794100980001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Mentges to Hodgdon, 10/09/1794.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Mentges
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Trenton
Water Street