Items for the Artillerists & Engineers at West Point
Document 1795The following items are to be transported to West Point for the use of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers: helmets, helmet feathers, cockades, sergeant's woolen overalls, sergeant's shirts, sword belts, a cane for a senior musician, silk epaulets, books of demi-paper, reams of paper, quills, wafers, and sealing wax. The number required of each item is indicated.
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[Docket, upper right: War Office 5 Novemr / Dec [undecipherable] — [undecipherable]95 — / [undecipherable] for Uniforms]
[Notation, left: War department]
[Notation, left: his [undecipherable]]
[Address, lower left: Samuel Hodgdon Esq]
War Office November 5. 1795
Sir,
Please to have packed up and transported to West point for the use of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, Four hundred and fifty Helmets- Four hundred and fifty Helmet Feathers- Four hundred and fifty American Cockades- Seventy eight Serjeants Woollen Overalls, twenty four Serjeants [undecipherable: probable reading "Shields"], Seventy two Sword Belts, One Cane for a Senior Musician, three Silke Epaulets- Six Books of Demi paper each four quires- Six Reams of paper, three hundred and fifty Quills One pound of Wafers and one pound of sealing Wax —
I am
Sir
with great Respect
Your obed. Servant
[undecipherable] By Order
Samuel Hodgdon Esqr
Type
Letter Signed
Description
The following items are to be transported to West Point for the use of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers: helmets, helmet feathers, cockades, sergeant's woolen overalls, sergeant's shirts, sword belts, a cane for a senior musician, silk epaulets, books of demi-paper, reams of paper, quills, wafers, and sealing wax. The number required of each item is indicated.
Date
11/05/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1795110515001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Nathan Jones
Notable locations
War Department

