Delay in Transporting Military Stores
Document 1795The military stores ordered to the shipyard by Captain Thompson were not sent because the revenue cutter did not arrive from Charleston. They were ordered again and the order should have been sent to Hodgdon to forward them but apparently it was not done so that delay increases the necessity for haste.
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War Office May 1. 1795.
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The military stores ordered to be shipped in Capt Thompson from New York were not sent, because the revenue cutter represented to be there from Charleston was not to be found: & so I countermand them. At that time an order should have been sent you to forward them from hence; & till to-day I thought it had been done. This unexpected delay makes me more solicitous to hasten them now.
yr obt T Pickering
Saml Hodgdon Esqr
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
The military stores ordered to the shipyard by Captain Thompson were not sent because the revenue cutter did not arrive from Charleston. They were ordered again and the order should have been sent to Hodgdon to forward them but apparently it was not done so that delay increases the necessity for haste.
Date
05/01/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1795050100101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering
Captain Thompson
Notable locations
War Office
New York
Charleston
Notable items
revenue cutter
military stores ordered to the Shipyard
an order
unexpected delay