Ordnance & Military Supplies to Portland, Province of Maine
Document 1798Hodgdon lists ordnance and military supplies to be sent to Portland and discusses the best route by which they should be transported.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon lists ordnance and military supplies to be sent to Portland and discusses the best route by which they should be transported.
Date
07/07/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798070728255
Page start
143
Note
Cited in Bryant to Hodgdon, 07/14/1798. One of two letters from Hodgdon to Bryant cited for this day.
Notable persons
John Briant
Samuel Hodgdon
Lemuel Weeks
Archibald Crary
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Portland, alias Casco Bay
province of Maine
Hartford
Providence
Boston
Army
Newport, Rhode Island
Notable items
muskets
cartouche boxes
gun worms
cartridges
cannon powder
fine musket powder for priming
brass six pounders with carriages
implements complete
strapped shot for six pounders
intercouse between Hartford and Portland by water
best and most expeditious route
Charleville muskets