Request for Issue of French & American Muskets, for Proving

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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

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