Secretary at War discusses status of stores with Chapin
Document 1796Letter, informs re supply order of 1794 for powder & lead; informs that payment for stores to be deducted from annuity.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, informs re supply order of 1794 for powder & lead; informs that payment for stores to be deducted from annuity.
Date
10/21/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1796102100101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Chapin to McHenry, 11/15/1796.
Notable persons
Israel Chapin
James McHenry
Houdin
General Knox
Notable locations
War Office
Albany
Notable items
directed that Mr. Houdin, storekeeper at Albany, should forward to your address the five hundred weight of best musket or rifle powder
weight of lead
flints
recollecting the order
forwarded to you a supply equal to that directed
inform that Nation to whom those last articles may be delivered that the amount of them together with the charges of transportation will be deducted
received your letter
appeared by your former letter that the order given by General Knox in June 1794 for a supply of powder, lead for the Six Nations had not been