Request for hand grenades for frigate Constellation

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Request to deliver 200 handgrenades to Tench Francis for USS Constellation.

Date

07/07/1797

Recipient

John Harris

Sent from

Philadelphia

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters To

Document number

1797070715155

Page start

254

Notable persons

John Harris
Josiah Fox
Tench Francis
purveyor
keeper military stores
Secretary of War
James McHenry

Notable locations

War Office
Philadelphia
Baltimore
War Department
War Office

Notable items

hand grenades
frigate Constellation