Receipt of Clothing & Additional Orders
Document 1796The clothing arrived safely except for a shortage of eleven pair of linen overalls and one sergeant's shirt. The articles being packed in the middle of the hogshead probably accounts for the mistake. Rickard orders the following items: horsemen's tents, a marques tent, a fife case and belt, and bell tents to shelter muskets in bad weather.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
The clothing arrived safely except for a shortage of eleven pair of linen overalls and one sergeant's shirt. The articles being packed in the middle of the hogshead probably accounts for the mistake. Rickard orders the following items: horsemen's tents, a marques tent, a fife case and belt, and bell tents to shelter muskets in bad weather.
Date
07/23/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Tarborough
Repository
Document number
1796072380001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
William Rickard
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Tarborough