The Situation at Springfield
Document 1794Writing in code, Ames provides a detailed explanation of the current situation at the Public Armory at Springfield as well as a list of wanted articles that includes the cost of each article.
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[Administrative notation:]
War Department
Philadelphia
25 Oct[o]
1794
Major [Henry?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esquire
[Superintendent?] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
& Philadelphia
Springfield Octr 22. 1794
Sir,
I hope you will excuse my writing to you so often as to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to forward the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]. [We?] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — for fear [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] last [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] injury [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [copy?] of and [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a charge to my [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] a man to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] in — the [undecipherable] last [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — and has [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] lodges [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] or nothing of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all that is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in a [undecipherable] —
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for the water works — which will be of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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follows [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Present.
500 [undecipherable] of Steel [undecipherable] — — — — £16. 5. [undecipherable]
100 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — — — — 31. 3. [undecipherable]
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— — — — £ [undecipherable]. [undecipherable]. [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Writing in code, Ames provides a detailed explanation of the current situation at the Public Armory at Springfield as well as a list of wanted articles that includes the cost of each article.
Date
10/22/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Springfield
Document number
1794102280101
Page start
1
Note
Mostly illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon, Superintendent of Ordnances and Military Stores
David Ames
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Springfield

