Proving the Powder Lately Purchased
Document 1798Major Fleming has been dispatched to New York to prove the recently purchased powder with a 5 1/2 inch howitzer.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Major Fleming has been dispatched to New York to prove the recently purchased powder with a 5 1/2 inch howitzer.
Date
05/23/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798052328055
Page start
97
Notable persons
Ebenezer Stevens
Samuel Hodgdon
Major [George] Fleming
Capt. [Michael] Houdin
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
powder
howitzer
proof
24 pound ball
brass twelve pounders
carriages
every species of insult