Letter from the War Office to congressman Josiah Parker regarding present state of frigates United States, Constitution, Constellation
Document 1797Statements and estimates regarding the frigates United States, Constitution and Constellation. Estimates the sum required to complete frigates; sum required for pay and subsistence of crew; sum for required articles. United States is complete. Constitution and Constellation not completed. List contains items at Norfolk, Portsmouth New Hampshire, and New York ship yards where other three frigates under construction.
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Letterbook
Description
Statements and estimates regarding the frigates United States, Constitution and Constellation. Estimates the sum required to complete frigates; sum required for pay and subsistence of crew; sum for required articles. United States is complete. Constitution and Constellation not completed. List contains items at Norfolk, Portsmouth New Hampshire, and New York ship yards where other three frigates under construction.
Date
06/16/1797
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1797061615455
Page start
246
Notable persons
Josiah Parker
Josiah Fox
congress
War Department
War Office
Secretary of War
James McHenry
congressman
House of Representatives
carpenters
riggers
mast makers
Captain Samuel Nicholson
Captain Thomas Truxton
Truxtun
Captain John Barry
Notable locations
War Office
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
congress
Norfolk
New York
Portsmouth New Hampshire
Mud Fort
Delaware
Georgia
Notable items
frigate
estimates
frigate United States
frigate Constitution
frigate Constellation
guns
military stores
labor and tradesmen bills
materials
hemp
44 gun frigate
copper
rigging
blocks
deadeyes
rigging
live oak