Delivery of Hospital Stores
Document 1797Orders to purchase and ship medicines and medical instruments for hospital at Norfolk.
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[War Office
May 4th 1797.
Medicines & Surgical Instruments to be sent to Norfolk,
Virginia]
War-Office, May 4 1797.
Sir.
The Purveyor has been directed, to purchase a supply of medicines- Surgical instruments &c. for the use of the garrison at Norfolk, in Virginia. You will be pleased, as soon as he shall have deposited them in your charge, to deliver the same, to Mr Hodgdon, the Agent of the quarter master general, for transportation-
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris.
Storekeeper.
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Orders to purchase and ship medicines and medical instruments for hospital at Norfolk.
Date
05/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797050400001
Page start
1
Notable persons
quartermaster general
agent
garrison
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry
purveyor
storekeeper
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Office
Norfolk
Virginia
Notable items
transportation
medical supplies
surgical instruments
hospital stores