Request to redirect the vessel laden with live oak to Philadelphia with utmost dispatch

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Request to redirect the schooner laden with live oak to Philadelphia with dispatch without unloading any cargo at New York. The live oak is hoped to complete the frame of the frigate at Philadelphia.

Date

05/24/1796

Recipient

Captain Silas Talbot

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

1796052415255

Page start

169

Notable persons

Captain Silas Talbot
superintendent
War Department
War Office
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Navy
John Blagge
Naval Agent

Notable locations

New York
War Office
Philadelphia
Georgia
ship yard at New York

Notable items

schooner
timber
live oak
frame
frigate
cargo