Request for Issue of Arms, Accoutrements, Tents & Powder
Document 1798Directs issue of arms, accoutrements, tents & powder to Major Tousard's detachment
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War department
May 17 1792
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Major Lewis Toussard twenty five Stands of arms and accoutrements, Three Horsemans and Twelve Common Tents and Six Barrels of Cannon powder
James McHenry
[please to deliver the above to John Steele]
Lewis Toussard
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of arms, accoutrements, tents & powder to Major Tousard's detachment
Date
05/17/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798051715001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
Major Lewis Tousard
detachment
Captain Frederick Frye
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Department
Governor's Island
New York
Notable items
transportation
common tents
sergeant's swords
belts