Request for Issue of Drums & Drumsticks
Document 1798Directs issue of drums & drumsticks to Mud Island; two other notations by Major Tousard, as well as the document's envelope, suggest that they were actually meant for Fort Mifflin, and seem to have ended up there.
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Document Signed
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Directs issue of drums & drumsticks to Mud Island; two other notations by Major Tousard, as well as the document's envelope, suggest that they were actually meant for Fort Mifflin, and seem to have ended up there.
Date
05/31/1798
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1798053115001
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1
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2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
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War Department
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Return for six drum heads and two pair drum sticks for the use of the garrison at Fort Mifflin
be pleased to deliver to sergeant John E. Morrison - six drum heads and two pairs drum sticks for the use of the garrison at Mud Island