Orders to Deliver Cartidges for Cannons
Document 1797Orders to deliver cartridges and tubes to Fort Mifflin on Mud Island.
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[War Office
April 12th Jan 17th
Taken Hartridge to deliver
for the use of Fort Mifflin]
Sir.
Please to deliver [strikethrough: to] Aram Mitchell, for the garrison Service, at Mud Island Fort,
One hundred flannel cartridges, for 9 pounders }
One hundred do do . . . . 12. do }
Fifty . . . . do do . . . . 13. do }
[strikethrough: Fifty] . . . . do do . . . " 24. do
Also;
One hundred Tubes, for 9 pounders. }
One hundred . . . do . . . . 12 . do }
Fifty . . . . . do . . 13 . do }
Fifty . . . . do . . . 24 . do
~War-Office, April 12th 1797.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Hearnis
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Orders to deliver cartridges and tubes to Fort Mifflin on Mud Island.
Date
04/12/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797041200001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Captain Mitchell
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Office
Mud Island
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
deliver
for the garrison service at Mud Island Fort
flannel cartridges
12 pounders
18 pounders
24 pounders
tubes for 9 pounders