Delivery of Musket Parts
Document 1797Orders to deliver musket barrels, etc., to be made into muskets by John Miles.
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[War Office
May 31st 1797.
Muskt Mountings Deld
Tench Francis to John Miles]
[undecipherable]
War-Office, May 31 1797.
Sir.
Please to deliver Tench Francis, the Purveyor, fifty musket-barrels, fifty bayonets, fifty ram-rods and fifty stocks, to be manufactured into fifty muskets, for the United States, by John Miles —
I am Sir
Your ob: Ser:
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
Orders to deliver musket barrels, etc., to be made into muskets by John Miles.
Date
05/31/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797053100101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Tench Francis
John Miles
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
storekeeper
purveyor
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
deliver, musket barrels
bayonets
ram rods
stocks to be manufactured into muskets
musket mounting delivered