Delivery of Cord
Document 1797Orders to deliver sufficient cord to make cat o'nine tails and hard weather flag.
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[War Office
April 15. 1797.
Send a Hard [strikethrough: bad] weather
Flag to be Dl'd to Capt Mitchell
for Fort Mifflin ——]
War-Office, April 15th 1797.
Sir.
You will please to deliver Captain Mitchell, for the garri-:son at Mud Island fort, a sufficient quantity of cord, suitable to make [underline: three Cat o'ninetails] — and a small, hard weather, flag.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris.
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Orders to deliver sufficient cord to make cat o'nine tails and hard weather flag.
Date
04/15/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797041500001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Captain Mitchell
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Office
Mud Island
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
cord
cat o'nine tails
flag
line