Request for direction on procurement of hemp for cordage and rigging of ship at Boston
Document 1796Frigate at Boston may be completed during summer. Therefore Pickering requests directions on procurement of hemp for cordage and rigging of frigate. Pickering notes that if there is difficulty with procurement, he has been informed a quantity may be had in Boston.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
Frigate at Boston may be completed during summer. Therefore Pickering requests directions on procurement of hemp for cordage and rigging of frigate. Pickering notes that if there is difficulty with procurement, he has been informed a quantity may be had in Boston.
Date
06/30/1796
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1796063015155
Page start
174
Notable persons
Oliver Wolcott
Secretary of Treasury
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Office
War Department
Notable locations
War Office
Boston
Philadelphia
Treasury Department
War Department
Notable items
cordage
rigging
hemp
USS Constitution
frigate