Request for Issue of a 24-Pounder Elevating Screw
Document 1798Directs issue of an elevating screw for a gun carriage being repaired.
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War department 12. June 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to Valentine Hoffman an elevating Screw to be affixed to the Brafs twenty four pounder carriage which he is repairing —
Timothy Pickering
Sec'y War
pro tempore.
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr. John Harris
[War Office. June 12. 1798. An elevating screw to be delivered to Valentine Hoffman]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of an elevating screw for a gun carriage being repaired.
Date
06/12/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798061215001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Notable locations
War Department