Request for Delivery and Sale of Rifles & Thread
Document 1797Letter, directs issue (for sale) of rifles and thread.
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War Office December 10 1797
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to Tench Francis, Purveyor, Twenty common Rifles, two boxes for ditto and twenty four pounds of White brown thread for the Georgia factory, for which he will pay you the full value —
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[War Office
Dect 10 [17]9[7]
Deliver Tench [Francis]
Francis Esqr]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, directs issue (for sale) of rifles and thread.
Date
12/10/1797
Author
Recipient
Document number
1797121000001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
purveyor
Tench Francis
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Office
Georgia
Georgia factory
Notable items
deliver common rifles
two boxes for ditto and twenty four pounds of whited brown thread for the Georgia factory for which he will pay you the full value.