Request for Issue of Weapons & Ammunition for Treasury Department
Document 1798Directs issue of muskets, pistols, cutlasses, ammunition, and spare cartridge material for the Treasury Department.
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[War Office
Issued to Wm G W to Jef
of Stationery P H S—
June 21. 1798]
War department June 21. 1798
Sir Be pleased to deliver to the order of Allen McLane. twelve Muskets and accoutrements Six pair pistols eight hundred [undecipherable] nine hundred Musket Cartidges one Brass Swivel with implements Shot and a suitable number of Cartridges flannell and paper twenty five spare flints, Six pounds Slow Match two Guntstocks and twenty five pounds of powder —— to be charg'd to the Treasury of the United States
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Harris will please to put the above articles into a Box for their safe transportation and future preservation —
Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of muskets, pistols, cutlasses, ammunition, and spare cartridge material for the Treasury Department.
Date
06/21/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798062100000
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
muskets
pistols
cartridges
brass swivel
shot
flannel
paper

