Ensign Lewis' Receipt for Horse and Pistols
Document 1796Meriwether Lewis' receipt for a horses and a pair of pistols and holsters.
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Pittsburgh 1st 1796 December 3 [undecipherable] 6 [undecipherable]
So. H[undecipherable] fifteen hands high bel[undecipherable] No [undecipherable]
Cap. Ten[undecipherable] are pair [undecipherable] pistols Holsters the prop[erty of the]
Uniti[ed] States which Jo[undecipherable] [undecipherable] to delei[v]er to Samu[el]
Herga[undecipherable] in Philadelphia
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December [undecipherable] 6
1st [undecipherable] 60 [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Meriwether Lewis' receipt for a horses and a pair of pistols and holsters.
Date
11/21/1796
Author
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Document number
1796112190001
Page start
8
Note
Partially illegible
Enclosed in Craig to Simmons, 1796/11/21
Notable persons
Meriwether Lewis
Isaac Craig
Deputy Quartermaster General
Captain Turner
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
horse
sorrel
pair of pistols
holsters