Letter to Congressional Committee Concerning Seaboard Fortifications

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Type

Letterbook Copy

Description

Informs Congress which forts have been improved upon, and which must be presumed in deterioration because they have not been garrisoned; estimates cost of paying private persons to superintend those unmanned posts. Notes that additional funds for the year's upkeep at the garrisoned forts will be necessary, and that a separate document containing requests for such funds has been submitted.

Date

01/10/1797

Sent from

War Office

Collection

Document number

1797011000501

Page start

103

Note

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Notable persons

James McHenry
Secretary of War
House of Representatives
Congress
troops
garrison
military establishment
committee
Treasury

Notable locations

Portland
Maine
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Gloucester
Cape Ann
Salem
Marblehead
Massachusetts
New Port
Rhode Island
New London
Connecticut
Savannah
Point Petre
Georgia
War Office
Governor's Island
New York
Mud Island
Philadelphia
Whetstone Point
Baltimore
Maryland
Norfolk
Virginia
Wilmington
North Carolina
Fort Johnson
Charleston
South Carolina

Notable items

forts
report
harbors
repairs
depredations
defence
defense
buildings
estimate
expenses
balance
appropriations