Return of Ordinances at Governors Island and Bedlow's Island
Document 1795Inventory of powder, ordnance, and military stores at Governor's Island New York and inventory of ordnance at Bedlow's Island New York. Document is unsigned. Received at the War Office 5 Aug, 1795
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[Return of Powder, Ordnance & Military Stores at Governors & Bedlows Islands — August 5th 1795]
[Endorsements:] Rec'd at the War office [undecipherable] 5 August 1795 — [undecipherable] Commissioner letters Entered
[Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O.401910.]
Return of Powder, Ordnance, & Military Stores at Governors Island New York August 5th 1795.
Powder
[Table of powder barrels, columns: No. | Wt. repeated across page]
[blank] | 2650 | 65 | 2798 | [undecipherable across remaining columns]
3050 | 47 | 2992 | 61 | [undecipherable]
2995 | 40 | 2615 | 65 | [undecipherable]
2934 | 54 | [undecipherable]
2177 | 48 | [undecipherable]
2794 | 53 | [undecipherable]
2795 | 45 | [undecipherable]
2640 | 48 | [undecipherable]
2065 | 59½ | [undecipherable]
2795 | 52 | [undecipherable]
2795 | 37 | [undecipherable]
2840 | 34 | [undecipherable]
2640 | 37 | [undecipherable]
2815 | 65 | [undecipherable]
2065 | 51 | [undecipherable]
2795 | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
2940 | 31 | [undecipherable]
2840 | 47 | [undecipherable]
2795 | 31 | [undecipherable]
2965 | 45 | [undecipherable]
2840 | 65 | [undecipherable]
2840 | 45 | [undecipherable]
2065 | 65 | [undecipherable]
2940 | 43 | [undecipherable]
[undecipherable rows continuing]
[undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
[undecipherable rows continuing for approximately 35 additional rows]
[Signature:] C. [undecipherable]
Ordnance.
√ 1 Marker (not complete) with poles & Rods
√ 1 Box, containing old Gun Carriage Rings & Bolts
√ 12 Trunnion Caps
√ 3 Large Water Buckets
√ 10 Budge Barrels
√ 18 Tube Boxes
√ 9 Small Tin Funnels
√ 25 Priming Wires, Gouges 9, Servers 16
√ 20 Eighteen pound Sponges
√ 7 Twentyfour Do — Do
√ 12 Eighteen pound Ladles
√ 54 Twentyfour Do — Do
√ 14 Eight pound Worms
√ 3 Twentyfour Do — Do
√ 27 Powder Horns
√ 10 Mortar Sponges (not caps it)
[strikethrough: 26 Sponge Caps]
√ 24 Mallets
√ 24 Fuze Sets for 8 Inch Fuzes
√ 10 Lead Aprons, 5 Tomkin straps d. 124 pr.
√ 1 Box of Gun Flints
√ 8½ Sets Drag Ropes
√ 7 Dammaged Tents
√ 24 Shell Scrapers
√ 13 Pair Shell Works for 8, 10, & 13 Inch Shells
√ 14 Truck Carriages (not Complete)
√ 8 Modern Do — Do
√ 55 Coils Slow Match, 17 Tube Box Bolts
[strikethrough: Stove Tacks], 9 Dressed Sheep Skins
√ 146 Cannon Spokes, 116 Sticks port fire
√ 1 Pair Bellows, 7 Lint Stocks
√ 70 port fire Stocks, 111, 13 Inch Fuzes
√ 55 ten Inch Fuzes, 350 Mortar Paper Cartridges
√ 300 Flannel Cartridges
√ 300 Caps
√ 300 Cylinders Do
√ 300 Flannel Cartridges for 10 pr.
√ 300 Caps — Do — Do
√ 300 Cylinders for Do — Do
[Margin totals:] 15 6¼ / 11 / 12 25½ / 17,610 ½ / 11 / 17,627 ¾
Ordnance
[Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O.401910.]
√ 1 Box Said to contain 13 Doz. 8 Inch Fuzes
√ 1 Six pound, 1 four pound Copper Measures
√ 2 Copper Thimbles
√ 1 Box ten Inch Fuzes
√ 5 Boxes Musket Ball Cartridges
√ 1 Tarpaulin
√ 3 Sea Coast Carriages, 3 Hand Spikes
√ 1 Large Gun Truck Bell
√ 4 Pair Shackles
√ 1 Boat, Rudder & Tiller, 4 Oars
√ 1044 Eighteen pound Shot
√ 145 Twentyfour Do — Do
√ 20 Barr Shot
√ 190 Eight Inch Shells
√ 115 Thirteen Inch Do
√ 5 — 24 pound Cannon, mounted on Sea Coast Carriages [margin: 5 Lead apron / 15 Tomkins / 57 lead aprons / 12 Tomkins]
√ 12 — 18 pound Do — Do — Do
√ Brass & 8½ Inch Howitzer, mounted on field Carriages with Limbers
√ 5 Lead Aprons for Do
√ Tomkins for Do
√ 1 Brass English, 10 Inch Mortar mounted on its Bed
√ 3 Do French — Do — not Mounted
√ 1 Iron 6 pounder, mounted on a Truck Carriage
√ 1 Sponge worm for Do
√ 3 — 8¾ Inch Mortar Beds not quite Complete
√ 1 Large Gun
Ordnance at Bedlows Island
√ 5 Iron Eighteen pounders
√ 2 Sea Coast Carriages Complete
√ 4 Garrison Carriages for Eighteen pounders Complete
√ 1 Iron 24 pounder Cannon
√ 1 Sponge for 24 pounder
Type
Document
Description
Inventory of powder, ordnance, and military stores at Governor's Island New York and inventory of ordnance at Bedlow's Island New York. Document is unsigned. Received at the War Office 5 Aug, 1795
Date
08/01/1795
Author
Document number
1795080190001
Page start
1
Notable persons
unknown
Notable locations
Governors Island
New York
Bedlow's Island
War Office
Notable items
military stores
powder
ordnance
inventory

