Request to ship yard clerk for inventory of timber and other articles upon completion of frigate Constellation at Baltimore
Document 1797Letter directs ship yard clerk Garretson to make inventory of all frigate timber and wood that remains unused following completion of the frigate Constellation. After this inventory done, conduct inventory of other articles, including buildings.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
Letter directs ship yard clerk Garretson to make inventory of all frigate timber and wood that remains unused following completion of the frigate Constellation. After this inventory done, conduct inventory of other articles, including buildings.
Date
11/30/1797
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1797113000055
Page start
273
Note
No signature, assumed to be from McHenry but may be Josiah Fox.
Notable persons
Isaac Garretson
James McHenry
Josiah Fox
Secretary of War
ship yard clerk
Notable locations
War Office
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Notable items
timber
inventory
frigate
live oak
white oak
pine plank
spars
shores
blocks
articles
buildings