Request to select, sort, and deliver some timbers and planks to Boston and Portsmouth New Hampshire
Document 1796Request to Jacob Sheaffe to send some pieces of live oak and plank, whether oak or pine, to Boston and to send some live oak or pine as selected by Josiah Fox, for the frigate to be constructed at Portsmouth New Hampshire. Discusses the means of selection, sorting and valuation of timbers.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
Request to Jacob Sheaffe to send some pieces of live oak and plank, whether oak or pine, to Boston and to send some live oak or pine as selected by Josiah Fox, for the frigate to be constructed at Portsmouth New Hampshire. Discusses the means of selection, sorting and valuation of timbers.
Date
09/21/1796
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1796092115155
Page start
191
Notable persons
Jacob Sheafe
naval agent
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Department
War Office
James Hackett
naval constructor
Josiah Fox
Notable locations
War Office
War Department
Philadelphia
Portsmouth New Hampshire
Boston
Notable items
frigate
frigate timbers
live oak
oak
pine
planks