List of Materials for Artillerists
Document 1798Order to deliver supplies and clothing to artillerists c/o Samuel Hodgdon.
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[War Off°
July [undecipherable: probable reading 10] 1798
Clothing to be furnished
up for several stations for
Artillery]
War department July 10th 1798
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esq for transportation to the places herein after mentioned the number of suits of Artillerists Clothing, Knapsacks Arms Accoutrements and Canteens opposite to them respectively — viz:
√ Portland .......... Massachusetts X ....... twenty five X ........ addd to Capt Amos Stoddart
√ Boston ............ d° .......................... fifty ..................... Capt Samuel Gates
vi New London ....... Connecticut .......... fifty ..................... Capt In° Henry
√ New York .......... ............................. fifty ..................... Capt Walter L. [undecipherable: probable reading Cochran]
√ Albany ............ New York .............. fifty ..................... D. Nathan Leonard
√ Windsor ........... Vermont ............... twenty five ........... Capt James [undecipherable: probable reading Sidle]
√ Trenton ........... New Jersey ........... twenty five ........... Capt James Read
√ Easton ............ Pennsylvania ......... twenty five X ........ Capt [undecipherable: probable reading Callend] Irvine
√ Carlisle .......... d° ......................... twenty five X ........ D. James [undecipherable: probable reading Many]
√ Dover ............. Delaware .............. twenty five X ........ D. John Knights
√ Chestertown ....... E. Shore Maryland .. twenty five ........... [undecipherable: probable reading Alex. D. Pope]
√ Cartersville ...... Virginia ............... twenty five ........... [undecipherable: probable reading A. Jr. Hancock]
√ Hempsville ........ near Major d° ........ twenty five ........... Cap. Samd. [undecipherable: probable reading Eldin]
√ Richmond .......... d° ......................... fifty ..................... D. Patrick C. Harris
√ Charlotte ......... N° Carolina .......... Twenty five ...........
Should there be no Woollen Overalls in Store, the other articles are not to
be delayed on that account but forwarded immediately —
I am Sir
Your obedt servant
Timothy Pickering,
Secry War pro tem.
M. John Harris
Note all those mark'd thus √
are Conft with —
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Order to deliver supplies and clothing to artillerists c/o Samuel Hodgdon.
Date
07/10/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798071000002
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Timothy Pickering
Samuel Hodgdon
artillerists
Notable locations
War Department
Portland
Boston
New London
New York
Albany
Windsor
Trenton
Easton
Carlisle
Dover
Chestertown
Cartersville
Kempville
Richmond
Charlotte
North Carolina
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
New Jersey
Maryland

