Request for Issue of Powder and Saltpeter to Be Manufactured into Portfires
Document 1798Directs that rifle powder and saltpeter for manufacture of portfire.
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[War Office
March 13 1798.
Powder & Salt Petre to
be dld Jacob Forber]
War Office March 13. 1798
Sir Be pleased to deliver to Jacob Forbers ore Quarters barrls Kent Rifle Powder and Six Pounds of best refined Salt Petre to be ma nufactured into Powder which he will return into Store —
By Order of the Secretary of War
[undecipherable] Clk. Wo.
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs that rifle powder and saltpeter for manufacture of portfire.
Date
03/13/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798031315002
Page start
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Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
military storekeeper
Jacob Serber
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
rifle powder
salt peter
salt petre
portfire manufacturer
cask