Request for Issue of a Drum
Document 1798Directs issue of a drum.
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[War Office
April 19 1798
1 drum Complete to lent [undecipherable] Basil
Wood]
War department. April 19, 1798
Sir,
Please to deliver to Basil Wood, one Drum complete — for which he is to be accountable to return it uninjured; or another equally good.
I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
James McHenry
[signature: Samuel Hodgson]
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of a drum.
Date
04/19/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798041915103
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Basil Wood
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
drum
one drum complete
uninjured or another equally good