Proving the Cannon at Your Furnace
Document 1798Letter, advises re cannon powder & shot being sent for proving cannon.
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Philadelphia 13th March 1793
Sir
By the usual rout, Vizt Hollingsworth
I've Sent to your address Six Barrels Cannon Powder
and one hundred and eighty, twelve pound round Shot
for proving the Cannon at your Furnace — they went
yesterday, properly addressed marked & numbered —
Please to acknowledge the Receipt of them and let me
know when they arrive —
I am
Sir
Your most Obedt & hume Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr Manager &
Philadelphia, 13 March 1793
Sir,
Since mine of this date another Wag-
gon is loaded, partly to your address with sundry [undecipherable: Stores?]
flint Stones for the Treaty Commissioners, and partly
with Store Goods to the address of Mr Baggs, both an-
swering to the Inclosed Invoices — The Men mentioned to be
enclose in my communication to day was by mistake left
out, it is an duplicate — I believe all intended to be for
wooden, at present is now on their way — If any of the
Waggoners with whom I am in the Settle, after having delivered
acceptably their load, should want further advances to
enable them to return, you will please to make them
taking duplicate receipts in [undecipherable] the amount given
on the receipts given for their loads, the Stoppages
to be made from them, and the amount placed to your
credit —
I am
Your most Obedt & hume Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Col David Henley
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, advises re cannon powder & shot being sent for proving cannon.
Date
03/13/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798031328155
Page start
31
Notable persons
Mr. Hill, Manager
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Philadelphia
your furnace
Notable items
Hollingsworth line
cannon powder
twelve pound rounds and shot

