Report on inspection at Mount Hope Furnace and Elizabeth Town
Document 1795Smith is asked by the War Department to inspect the Mount Hope Furnace and Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania. The ore at this mine is used for the production of shot and ordnance. He forwards the results of his inspection. No signature by author.
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The average weight of the Shot is as follows
24 Pounders — 22 - 12
32 — Ditto — — 29 - 12
[strikethrough: 10 Pier Kentledge are stowed in twenty Hundred [undecipherable]]
[Kentledge]
10 Pie[ce]s are estimated by the Contractors as
a ton Gross weight — A[w]eigh'd in
pieces — by the average 10 Kies weight
[strikethrough: the average] 1. 0. 0. 10
[Rough [undecipherable] of
[undecipherable] Smith's Report
m[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Inspector?]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] July 95]
[What quantity of Stationary is in Store and at what Rents? —]
[In] —
[undecipherable] you agreeable to the Instructions received from the Secretary of War I have inspected the Kentledge and Shot at Mount Hope and Elizabeth Town [and the] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] for the [United] States and [undecipherable] [statement] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
At Mount Hope Furnace —
— [undecipherable] Twenty compound [Shot]
22.77 Thirty two [pound] ditto [passed] in
6[undecipherable] Pieces Kentledge — [Inspection]
65 Twenty four Pounder [undecipherable] Registers
183 Thirty two [pounder] d[itt]o [undecipherable]
29 Pieces Kentledge — [undecipherable]
At Elizabeth Town —
302 Pieces Kentledge — [undecipherable] [passed in spec]
21 Pieces Kentledge — Registers
204 Twenty [undecipherable] [pound] [undecipherable] [passed]
168 Thirty two [pounder] [undecipherable]
The Shot and Kentledge [rejected] is on account of their roughness and [undecipherable] size [undecipherable] some of the twenty four [pounders] [undecipherable] The average weight of ten 24 Pounder[s] Shot I send to
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Document
Description
Smith is asked by the War Department to inspect the Mount Hope Furnace and Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania. The ore at this mine is used for the production of shot and ordnance. He forwards the results of his inspection. No signature by author.
Date
07/23/1795
Author
Recipient
Document number
1795072380001
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Smith

