Adapting Carriages of Ammunition, Etc.
Document 1795Pickering lists a number of items and wonders whether they can be obtained and received at West Point by early April. The carriages of the wagons should be adapted to the kind of ammunition they will carry. Whatever is deposited at Springfield can be transported as soon as the ice breaks up on the Connecticut River. Colonel Rochefontaine choose to have the wagons completed at West Point but Pickering is certain that they can be obtained by contract at half the cost of making them at West Point.
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Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Pickering lists a number of items and wonders whether they can be obtained and received at West Point by early April. The carriages of the wagons should be adapted to the kind of ammunition they will carry. Whatever is deposited at Springfield can be transported as soon as the ice breaks up on the Connecticut River. Colonel Rochefontaine choose to have the wagons completed at West Point but Pickering is certain that they can be obtained by contract at half the cost of making them at West Point.
Date
12/20/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1795122000001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering
Colonel Rochefontaine
Notable locations
War Office
Springfield
Connecticut River
West Point
Notable items
ice
articles mentioned
work necessary to complete
contract
wheels
return for all the ammunition and entrenchng tools
carriage of the waggons
dimension & contraction of the bodies
brass howitzers
ammunition waggons
French bodies
travelling forge
entrenching tools
brass four-pounders