Request for Issue of Cannon, Arms & Accoutrements, & Ammunition to Fort Mifflin
Document 1798Directs issue of four cannon & associated implements, arms & accoutrements, and respective ammunition, for use at Fort Mifflin.
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[War Office June 28. 1793]
[Major Genl Wayne D. L. &c]
War department June 28
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esqr for trans-portation to Fort Mifflin Two brass twenty four pounders with their carriages and implements complete also ten nine pounders with a suitable quantity of ammunition — also four boxes of Musket Cartridges twelve powder horns a box of port fires and fifty stands of arms and accoutrements and twenty pounds of slow Match.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of four cannon & associated implements, arms & accoutrements, and respective ammunition, for use at Fort Mifflin.
Date
06/28/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798062800200
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 Office
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
cannon
arms
implements
accoutrements
ammunition

