24-Pound Shot Wanted at Providence
Document 179724 pound shot for proving cannon is needed at Providence, Rhode Island. Stagg wants to know if there is any shot near Providence that belongs to the public so that the transportation expense to that place could be avoided?
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War Office, March 16 1797.
Dear Sir.
About two hundred 24 pound Shot, for proving cannon, are wanted at Providence Rhode Island — Are there any at or near that place, belonging to the publick, so as to save the expence of transporting them from hence? — Please favor me with an answer —
Yours sincerely —
[Stagg Junr]
Samuel Higgdon Esqr
[Docket, verso: [undecipherable] — [undecipherable]]
[Received stamp: Received Nov 24, 1884 B.P.O. 40|310]
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Letter Signed
Description
24 pound shot for proving cannon is needed at Providence, Rhode Island. Stagg wants to know if there is any shot near Providence that belongs to the public so that the transportation expense to that place could be avoided?
Date
03/16/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797031615001
Page start
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Stagg
Notable locations
War Office