Guns Transported from Providence to Southern Posts
Document 1798Hodgdon orders that sixteen of the best twenty-four pound guns be transported from Providence to four southern posts.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon orders that sixteen of the best twenty-four pound guns be transported from Providence to four southern posts.
Date
05/04/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798050428455
Page start
82
Note
Cited in Elliot to Hodgdon, 05/27/1798.
Notable persons
Joseph Elliott
Samuel Hodgdon
Jphn Habersham
Capt. Griffith McKee
James Simmons
Charles Brown
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Providence, Rhode Island
Savannah, Georgia
Wilmington, North Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Notable items
guns belonging to the publc
twenty-four pounders
transportation
freight
bills of lading
shipment
return of the ordnance
species of store