Ordnance for the Use of the Revenue Cutter
Document 1798Harris is asked to deliver the undermentioned articles to the order of Sharp Delaney for the use of the Revenue Cutter. Articles of the same kind and value are to be returned by Delaney immediately.
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War Office March 30, 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Sharp Delany Esq. for the use of the Revenue Cutter the following articles viz:
Twelve [undecipherable] Shot for six pounders [each?]
Thirty Round Shot - two and in half or three pounders
Twenty - ditto - - - - three pounders
One hundred and twenty Musket Cartridges
One hundred and twenty Pistol - do:
Twenty Canteens
Fifty Swivel Shot - supposed [undecipherable] pounders
One Budge Barrel.
[Fifty?] Shot for [six] pounders, for which, articles of the same kind in [undecipherable] are to be returned by the said Sharp Delany immediately
James McHenry
[undecipherable: Samuel Hodgdon?]
Mr John Davis
[War Office
March 30th 1798
Sharp Delany [undecipherable] for the [Revenue?]
[Letter?] [undecipherable] for the amount
Not — H[undecipherable] — there was
General Stevens.
P. M. C.]
Deliver thewithin to Wm Vallance
for Sharp Delany
Thomas A. Delany
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Harris is asked to deliver the undermentioned articles to the order of Sharp Delaney for the use of the Revenue Cutter. Articles of the same kind and value are to be returned by Delaney immediately.
Date
03/30/1798
Author
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1798033000301
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry: Samuel Hodgdon
Sharp Delany
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
cannister shot for six pounders
shot for two-and-a-half or three pounders
musket cartridges
pistol cartridges
cutlasses
swivel shot for half pounders
budge [?] barrel

