Request for Issue of Theodolite to Baltimore
Document 1798Directs issue of currently held theodolite [surveying tool] to Baltimore.
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[War Office
June 15. 1798
a The odolite to bet Sent
Hodgdon Esqr for transportation
to west point [undecipherable: from?]]
War department
June 15. 1798
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esqr for
transpatation to Baltimore Maryland the theodolite now in
Store — Timothy Pickering
Secy of War pro tempore
Mr John Harris Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of currently held theodolite [surveying tool] to Baltimore.
Date
06/15/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798061515001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
Secretary of War
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering
Notable locations
Eagle Works
Schuylkill
War Department
Baltimore
West Point
New York
Notable items
cannon searcher
theodolite