Finding an Inspector
Document 1795Pickering wants an Inspector to assess the newly arrived 24-pounder so as avoid the embarassment caused by the previous method.
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[Pickering / [undecipherable] / 1795]
War Office
Samuel Hodgdon Esq.
Please to send me the precise dimensions of the 32 & 24 pound shot which Mr French was to cast and the dimensions of the Kortledge also if you are know them
T.P.
War Office April 17. 1795.
Sir
The inclosed was received yesterday. Whom can you employ to make the inspection? When Beach was here, I told him an Inspector should be sent, to avoid the like embarrasment as the former method had occasioned.
yr. obt. Servt.
T. Pickering
[24 Pounder 5 inch to tenths]
Type
Letter, Type Undetermined
Description
Pickering wants an Inspector to assess the newly arrived 24-pounder so as avoid the embarassment caused by the previous method.
Date
04/17/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1795041700101
Page start
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering
[John Jacob] Faesch
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
24 pounder
32 and 24 pound shot
precise dimensions of the kentledge