Request for Delivery of Uniforms & Accoutrements for New Recruits
Document 1798Directs issue of artillerists' clothing, knapsacks and canteens for new recruits at Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
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War Office
Jany 17. 98
Cloathing to be packed up
for Lt Dayton [blot] Company
15 Suits
[undecipherable] Jany 4: 98
War Office 17 January 1798
Sir, Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Eq. for Lt
Dayton's Recruits at Elizabeth Town New Jersey, Fifteen suits of
Artillerist's Cloathing, fifteen Knapsacks and fifteen Canteens
James [undecipherable: probable reading Withers]
[undecipherable: probable reading Samuel McHenry] [decorative flourish]
By John [undecipherable: probable reading Davis]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of artillerists' clothing, knapsacks and canteens for new recruits at Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
Date
01/17/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798011715001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Secretary of War
recruits
Notable locations
War Office
Elizabethtown
New Jersey
Notable items
artillerist clothing
knapsacks
canteens