Request for Estimate to Complete Frigate United States
Document 1797Letter, asks for estimate to complete Frigate United States.
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Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, asks for estimate to complete Frigate United States.
Date
06/07/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1797060737101
Page start
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Notable persons
Tench Francis
Josiah Fox
Hodgdon
Humphreys
Captain John Barry
Secretary of War
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
particular sums
assist you on this occasion
military stores may be excluded from the estimate required as the value of them have been already obtained from Mr. Hodgdon
secretary of War
transmit to this office
estimate of what further sum will be necessary to complete the Frigate United States for sea
Congress
sufficiency of money to answer all demands on account of building and equipping the said frigate for sea that no calls may hereafter be made for that