Delivery of Shot
Document 1797Orders to deliver shot to the ship's captain Mordecai Lewis for ship India bound for Batavia.
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War Office August 18. 1797
Sir,
Please to deliver to Mordecai Lewis or order for the Ship Indian Captain Ashmead bound to Batavia eighty, three and four pound Shot, also [undecipherable: Sixty] Swivel Shot, he paying the full value thereof. The money so received you will pay to Samuel Lewis Senior of this Office to be lodged with the Treasurer. —
I am Sir
Your obedient Servant
James [undecipherable: McHenry]
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[Verso: War Office Augt 18. 1797 — Not to be filed & returned —]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Orders to deliver shot to the ship's captain Mordecai Lewis for ship India bound for Batavia.
Date
08/18/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1797081800101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Military Storekeeper
Secretary of War
clerk
Mordecai Lewis
Samuel Lewis, Sr.
James McHenry
Captain Ashmead
treasurer
Notable locations
War Office
Batavia
Notable items
three and four pound shot
swivel shot
money
ship India
ship Indian
pay