Appointment and instructions for Edmund Quincy, clerk of ship yard for frigate built at Portsmouth New Hampshire
Document 1794From Henry Knox to Jacob Sheaffe Naval Agent at Portsmouth New Hampshire, encloses appointment and instructions for Edmund Quincy, clerk of ship yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire. Also encloses copy of letter from Joshua Humphreys regarding the [scar plank] of the frigate keel.
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Jacob Sheaffe Esq [in margin] letter on file [in margin]
W. D. Dec 10th 1794
Sir, I enclose you the appointment & instructions for Edmund H. Quincy as Clerk of the yard for the Frigate to be built at Portsmouth and also copy of a letter from Joshua Humphreys the Naval Constructor, dated the 8th instant relatively to the scarpks of the Frigate keel & to which I request you will comform.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
From Henry Knox to Jacob Sheaffe Naval Agent at Portsmouth New Hampshire, encloses appointment and instructions for Edmund Quincy, clerk of ship yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire. Also encloses copy of letter from Joshua Humphreys regarding the [scar plank] of the frigate keel.
Date
12/10/1794
Author
Recipient
Repository
Document number
1794121015055
Page start
93
Notable persons
Jacob Sheaffe
Naval Agent
Edmund Quincy
Clerk of ship yard
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Joshua Humphreys
Naval Constructor
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Portsmouth New Hampshire
Notable items
frigate
keel
scar
plank