Return of Cannon Searcher
Document 1798Request to return cannon searcher to the Eagle Works, located on the Schuylkill River.
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[Docket: War Office / July 3d 98 / a Cannon Searcher to / be sent to Eagle Works / over Schuylkhill]
War department, July 3. 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to have sent to the Eagle Works on Schuylkill the Cannon Searcher which you sometime since had brought from there —
James McHenry
Samuel [undecipherable: probable reading "Hodgdon"]
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Request to return cannon searcher to the Eagle Works, located on the Schuylkill River.
Date
07/03/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1798070300100
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Samuel Hodgdon
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Office
Philadelphia
Schuylkill
river
Notable items
cannon