Discussion & Statement of Timber Wanted for Various Frigate Components
Document 1796Letter, asks for terms regarding timber for Frigate. Letter includes a statement of masts, spars, planks and scantling wanted for use of the United States.
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Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, asks for terms regarding timber for Frigate. Letter includes a statement of masts, spars, planks and scantling wanted for use of the United States.
Date
08/02/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Boston
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796080215001
Page start
1
Note
Vaughan is again referred to in a letter from Josiah Fox to James McHenry, 08/04/1796, as a "person that does considerable business in the shipment of masts &c for Europe .." This may be the John Vaughan referred to in a letter fromTench Coxe to Alexander Hamilton, 01/01/1794, AHP XXVI, pp. 725 - 726, .."Philadelphia wine merchant and importer."
Notable persons
Vaughan
Josiah Fox
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Boston
Notable items
statement
masts
spars
plank
best terms
lowest sum
shipping
vessels
white oak plank
scantling
materials
36 guns
frigate
ship of war
dimensions
white oak
draught
feet long
inches diameter
inches thick
inches wide
terms for white oak plank by feet
from the butt ends
other way of measurement
terms for the pine plank
terms for the pine scanting by the foot or piece