Request for Procurement of Shipbuilding Materials: Masts, Spars, Planks, & Scantling
Document 1796Asks for information on how certain shipbuilding materials, with precise measurements be obtained: masts, spars, planks, and scantling.
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Sir
You will please to make inquiry of the price, time, and the terms on which the following articles can be obtained Viz.
60 d Masts, 90 feet long — 32 Inches diameter n
110 Spars, 80 at long — — 20 Inches deameter
1500 Pine Planks
1500 White Oak Planks } — 44 feet long, 6 Inches thick —
200 pieces of pine Scantling —
I am Sir
Your Obed servant
Have given a copy of Statement
& it with you
C Jones
James c M Henry
Sec. of War
Mr Josiah Fox
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Asks for information on how certain shipbuilding materials, with precise measurements be obtained: masts, spars, planks, and scantling.
Date
07/24/1796
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796072400001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Josiah Fox
James McHenry
Jones
Notable items
enquiry
inquiry
terms
masts
inches diameter
spars
pine planks
white oak planks
pine scantling
inches thick
feet long
statment