Order to Deliver Arms and Ammunition
Document 1797Delivery of musket barrels, stocks and bayonets to Tench Francis for Mr. Dickart of Lancaster for completion of assembly of muskets.
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War-Office,
March 17th 1797.
[Notes of Muskets to be
del. the [undecipherable]
for Dickart]
[sideways text, partially legible: [undecipherable] per No [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
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War-Office, 17 March 1797.
Sir,
Please to deliver to Mr Dickart, of Lancaster, Fifty musket
barrels— Fifty Stocks, Fifty Bayonets and Fifty Ramrods, for the purpose
of finishing fifty muskets, to be returned by him in the public
Store.
James McHenry
Mr John Harris. Samuel [undecipherable]
The order for the articles to be manufactured should be
in the Name of the Person who is to Pay the amount
[initialed: MH]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Delivery of musket barrels, stocks and bayonets to Tench Francis for Mr. Dickart of Lancaster for completion of assembly of muskets.
Date
03/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797031715001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Tench Francis
Mr. Dickart
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry
purveyor
Secretary of War
storekeeper
Notable locations
public store
War Office
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Notable items
deliver fifty musket barrels
stocks
bayonets
ramrods
for the purpose of finishing muskets to be returned
in the public store
the order for the articles to be manufactured should be in the name of the person who is to pay the account.