Request for Issue of French & American Muskets, for Proving
Document 1798Directs issue of twenty muskets, ten French and ten American-made, for the purpose of proving them.
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[War Office
May 14. 1798.
Musket barrels to C. S. T.
to John Nicholson to prove]
War department May 14. 1798.
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to John Nicholson, Ten french Muskets and Ten of the Muffkets made under Mr Francis's contracts for the purpose of being proved.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of twenty muskets, ten French and ten American-made, for the purpose of proving them.
Date
05/14/1798
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1798051415101
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
garrison Fort Mifflin
John Steele
Major Lewis Tousard
Secretary of War
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Fort Mifflin
War Department
Notable items
sundries
knapsacks
haversacks
bayonets
scabbards
sergeant's swords
belts