Circular Letter from the War Office to Naval Agents Ordering a Stop to the Reduction of Copper Bolts

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Pickering orders that the reducing of copper bolts be stopped. He asks for an accounting of copper bolt reduction in the past from the respective naval agents.

Date

02/02/1796

Author

War Department

Recipient

Naval Agents for Frigate Construction

Sent from

Philadelphia

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters To

Document number

1796020215055

Page start

155

Notable persons

Naval Agents
Jacob Schaffe
John Blagee
William Pennock
Joseph Sterrett.

Notable locations

War Office
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
Norfolk
Portsmouth New Hampshire
New York
War Department

Notable items

copper bolts
smaller size
account
number of feet