Safekeeping of Shot & Kentledge
Document 1797McHenry has heard that the shot and kentledge cast by Faesch & [Coxe] Company and deposited at Elizabeth Town New Jersey and elsewhere is being wasted because of children and others throwing into creeks. Harris is directed to proceed to the places of deposit, reexamine the shot and hentledge and arrange for the safekeeping of that which is still fit for service.
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[John Harris] War Office May 4 1797
Sir
You will be pleased to deliver for the Frigate Constellation building at Baltimore One hundred Stands of Arms and Accoutrements complete.
I am &c James Mc Henry
[John Harris] War Office May 12th 1797
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Capt. John Barry one hundred Tons of Kentledge for the Frigate United States. —
By Order of the Sec.y of War
John Stagg Junr.
[John Harris] War Office May 19th 1797
Sir
Please to deliver to the order of Mr Scott Clerk of the Navy Yard a Ship's Pendant for the Frigate United States. —
James Mc Henry
[Samuel Hodgdon] War Office May 26 1797
Sir
I am just informed that the Shot and Kentledge which were cast by Mess.rs Faesch and Company and deposited at Elizabeth Town a[re] wasting daily by Children and others throwing th[em]
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
McHenry has heard that the shot and kentledge cast by Faesch & [Coxe] Company and deposited at Elizabeth Town New Jersey and elsewhere is being wasted because of children and others throwing into creeks. Harris is directed to proceed to the places of deposit, reexamine the shot and hentledge and arrange for the safekeeping of that which is still fit for service.
Date
05/26/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797052600055
Page start
7
Note
Partially obscured.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
ballast

