Request for Issue of Flag Materials, Arms & Accoutrements for Fort Mifflin
Document 1798Directs issue of arms & accoutrements, bunting & cloth, and a sergeant's sword & sword-belt for use by the Fort Mifflin garrison.
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War department April 5. 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Major [undecipherable] Toward twenty five Stands of Arms and Accoutrements- also eighty six Yards and two thirds of Red Bunting- Seventy two yards and one third of White Bunting- fifty six yards of Blue Bunting- half a pound of thread- Three yards of Linen- half a pound of lines and One Sergeant Sword and Belt —
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Sir
Samuel Hodgson
Please to deliver the above to John Steele who will receipt for them
Lewis Toward Commandant
[War Office
April 5. 1798
[undecipherable] 73]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of arms & accoutrements, bunting & cloth, and a sergeant's sword & sword-belt for use by the Fort Mifflin garrison.
Date
04/05/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798040515203
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Lewis Tousard
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry
Secretary of War
garrison
commandant
John Steele
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
arms
issue
accoutrements
bunting
cloth
sergeant's sword
sword belt
thread
linen
line
stands of arms

