Request for Live Oak Timbers for Frigate Construction
Document 1796Letter, asks for live oak to complete Frigate frame.
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[Docket: Baltimore July 15th 1796 / Capt Truxtun / requesting Mr Blagge / to forward the timbers / wanted for Frigate at Balt[imore] / [N x acknowledged]]
Baltimore 15th July 1796
Dear Sir
Mr Stodder Sends you by this conveyance, a list of the timbers wanted of live oak; to Complete our frame, agreeable to your request of the 12th Current,
Shall I request you to urge Mr Blagge, to Send on these terms, immediately; or we must discharge our Carpenters
and if our quantity, Cannot be made up, at New York, I will thank you, to request the Secry of Wars, to order them round from Phila as I understand, there is a; late Arrival there from Georgia,
In great haste.
I Remain Your Obt
Thomas Truxtun
Mr Josiah Fox
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter, asks for live oak to complete Frigate frame.
Date
07/15/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Baltimore
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796071560201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Josiah Fox
Thomas Truxtun
Stodder
Blagge
Secretary of War
James McHenry
carpenters
Notable locations
Baltimore
Georgia
New York
Philadelphia
Notable items
timbers
frigate
list of timbers wanted
like oak
frame
terms

