Orders to Deliver Muskets
Document 1797Directs issue of musket barrels for manufacture of muskets to Tench Francis.
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[Muskt Barrels Do Tench Francis
fr Owen Evans —]
War. Office, May 12th 1797.
Sir.
Please to deliver to the order of Tench Francis, Purveyor, [underline: Fifty Musket barrels], wanted by Mr Evans, to complete that number of muskets to be returned in the public store.
By Order of the Secretary of War
[undecipherable: Stagg] his
[undecipherable]
Samuel [undecipherable: Hodgdon]
Mr John Harris.
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of musket barrels for manufacture of muskets to Tench Francis.
Date
05/12/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797051200001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Tench Francis
Owen Evans
John Stagg
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
purveyor
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
deliver
musket barrels
to complete that number of muskets to be returned to the public store.