Request for Socks and Blankets, and Direction for Their Issue
Document 1798Ensign requests socks and blankets which were left out of his last clothing issued; Nathan Jones asks that the deficient articles be forwarded.
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[Letter to the Fwd'd Engin. Corps, Posts at Brunswick & Albany]
[War Office July 14 —]
[War Office]
Mr John Harris
[undecipherable: mary nolfy?]
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New Brunswick New Jersey February 14. 179[8]
Sir,
Not having received any socks with the last clothing forwarded to me, I have to request you will be pleased to order to be sent to me a supply, together with half a dozen blankets that number being deficient in the articles transmitted to me last Autumn.
I am Sir Yr
Wm R Boots —
War Office 16 Feby. 1798
Sir
The above is a copy of a letter just recd from Ensign Boots at New Brunswick. Be pleased should the deficient articles not have been sent on to have them [underline: transmitted] by land —
I am Sir
with respect
Your obedt Sewant
No Jones.
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Ensign requests socks and blankets which were left out of his last clothing issued; Nathan Jones asks that the deficient articles be forwarded.
Date
02/16/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798021615002
Page start
1
Note
Duplicate of 1798021490001; double listing is due to 2 linked documents on same page.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
Nathan Jones
clerk
Ensign William R. Boote
Notable locations
War Office
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Notable items
blankets
supply
articles
deficient articles

