Sundries for the Frigate "United States"
Document 1798A ten-page list of sundries for the Frigate "United States," commanded by Captain John Barry.
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[No. 199. [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of the Frig[undecipherable] [undecipherable] States Commenc'd by John [undecipherable] July 12. 1798]
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Philada July 12th — 1798 Received of John Harris Store
Keeper of Military Supplies — (to wit) —
2 pairs Steelyards
1 pair Brass scales
1 sett Brass weights
3 Tin Funnels
1 Brass cock
2 Gal. Measures
2 half Gal. — do.
2 Quart — do
2 Pint — do.
2 half Pint — do.
2 Gill — — — do.
1 lb. sealing Wax
15 papers black Ink powder
10 Quires folio Demy paper
15 Quires 4to post paper
25 Quires fools Cap paper
5 Quires Cartridge paper
1 Pocket Ink stand
3 large Box of Wafers
1 Sand Box
2 slate with pencil
1 Penknife
1 Round Ruler
6 Blank Book (2 quires fools Cap)
1 lb. Black sand
2 Pewter Ink stand
1 large Azimuth Compass
2 Brass Amplitude do.
2 large Plain steering do
2 large Wood — — — — do
1 do Japaned Cabbin Hanging Compass
2 do Patent Lamps
1 Horse shoe Magnet
2 Two hour Glasses
6 Patent half hour Glasses
6 Patent half Minutes Glasses
6 — — — Quarters — — —
1 signal 40 second
1 Pilot for the west Indias including part of Europe
1 Nicholsons seamanship
1 Chart of the Gulph Passage by Mons.
1 — — — of the Windward do by — —
[undecipherable] of [undecipherable] America by [undecipherable]
1 Chart of the Mediterranean & [undecipherable]
1 — do of Spain & Portugal with the Harbours
13 Signal Flags
10 Jacks
13 Ensign {of kind for Ships}
6 Pendants
2 Binnacle Lamps
2 Copper [undecipherable] — — — —
6 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
2 Copper Tunnels
4 [undecipherable] pots
2 Basons
2 Pudding pans
4 Funnels (Tin)
2 Flower boxes
2 Pepper — do
2 Copper Coffee pots
[undecipherable] sauce pans
1 Cheese Toaster
3 Copper Tea Kettle
2 soup Ladles
1 Cullender
24 Silver Tea spoons
10 Boxes Tallow & wax Candles 563 lb. W.
2 — — — — — — — 102 lb. Mold
3 Boxes spermt. Candles — — 102 ½ lb.
672 lb. Musket Ball — 6 Boxes Mark M.
1120 lb. Pistol Ball — 10 Boxes Mark P.
7 Speaking Trumpets
4 Prs Green halt Thicks
2 Prs Jerseys
2 doz. Table Knives & forks
1 pair Carvers
6 Quires Cartidge paper
76 Boarding Pikes
82 Powder Horns
100 Ships Cutlasses
2400 Flannell Cartridges for 24 Prs
1120 — — — — — for 12 Prs
80 lb. Cannon Cartidge paper
20 Quires Musket Cartidge paper
10 Quires Pistol Cartidge paper
139 lb. Slow Match
640 Common Musket Flints
240 Large — —
120 Rifle Flints
34 Battle Lantherns
8 signal — do
8 Accommodation do
24 Tin Lantherns
6 Dark Lantherns
12 Budge Barrels
100 Boarding Axes
48 Dressed Sheep Skins
30 Treble worms for 24 Prs
14 — do — do for 12 Prs
30 Spring worms for 24 Prs
14 — — — — for 12 Prs
2 Tellescope
14 Rope Handles for 12 Prs
30 — Rope — — for 24 Prs
264 Case Shot for 24 Prs. — (44 boxes)
204 Case Shot for 12 Prs. — (17 boxes)
2644 — 24 Pr. Round Shot
600 — 24 Pr. Bar Shot
769 — 12 Pr. Round Shot
353 — 12 Pr. Bar Shot
3705 Small shot 2 Prs. Grape
6 Chopping Axes
40 — 24 Prs. Tompions
28 — 12 Pr. — — do
294 wooden Stools for Grape
4 Binnacle Frames
6 panes of Glass
1 Copper [undecipherable] — —
1 — do Driver
12 — do Staples
208 Barrels of Powder
45 — 24 Pr. Cartidge Cases
24 — 12 Pr. Cartidge Cases
170 New Ship Pistols
79 New Ship Muskets
50 Lint Stocks
30 — 24 Prs. Rammers & Sponge with Staves
30 — 24 Pr. Rammer Heads
30 — 24 Pr. Sponge Heads
27 — 24 Pr. Ladles with staves
4 — 12 Pr. Rammers & Sponges with Staves
14 — 12 Pr. Ladles & Staves
14 — 12 Prs. Rammer Heads
14 — 12 Prs. Sponge Heads
1 Fishing scene
20 Ps Duck
1 Jack screw
20 lb. Grunnet Line
30 lb. Bonnet Line
20 oz. Fish Hooks (doz)
28 lb. Brimstone
4 Gal. Train Oil
8 Tar [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Brushes
6 Boat Skeets
5 M. Scupper Nails
5 M. Pump Tacks
5 M. 14 Oz. Tacks
6 lb. Thumbes
4 doz. Paint Brushes
6 Ship Skeets
10 M. Clout Nails
1 day Book
2 Books for Memorandums
1 Book to Keep an Acc.t of Hospital Stores
200 Quills
1 lb. Black sand
2 Quires Blotting paper
99 Gal. Sherry wine
3 Vr. Casks Lisbon wine
48 ¾ Gal. Port wine
62 Gal. Molasses
35 Gal. Brandy
260 lb. Oatmeal
1 box Raisins
15 lb. Bohea Tea
6 ½ lb. Hyson skin Tea
9 lb. Allspice
7 lb. Mustard
3 ½ lb. Pepper
1 ½ lb. Ginger
1 Barrel Linseed Meal
210 lb. Barley
50 lb. Chocolate
5 Gal. Lemon Juice
211 lb. Rice
169 lb. Sugar
60 Gal. Porter
2 ½ Gal. Linseed Oil
462 Gal. Vinegar
9 lb. Tamarind
18 lb. Sago
4 lb. Salep
6 lb. Tapioca
12 lb. Essence of Spruce
24 Sailors pots
24 reveted pint Cups
4 Camp Kettles
4 Tin Tea Pots
24 Table Spoons
12 Tea spoons
2 Tin Cannisters
2 Pewter bed pans
2 Flat Candlesticks
4 Sconces
1 Chest Coopers Tools
3 Top Blocks
1 Cat Block
400 lb. Oakum
5 Brass sheives
4 Copper pumps 4
20 Rigging Hides
2538 lb. Cordage — 10 ½ Inch 1 Coil
889 lb. Cordage — 9 Inch — 1 Coil
1065 lb. Cordage — 8 ½ Inch — 1 Coil
4258 lb. Cordage — 8 Inch — 2 Coils
3035 lb. Cordage — 7 ½ Inch 2 Coils
720 — — — — — 5 ½ Inch — 1 Coil [undecipherable]
907 lb. Cordage — 6 ½ Inch 1 Coil
462 lb. Cordage — 6 Inch — 1 Coil
196 lb. Cordage — 4 Inch — 1 Coil
3905 lb. Cordage — 3 ½ Inch 18 Coils
3960 lb. Cordage — 3 Inch 25 Coils
489 lb. Cordage — 2 ½ Inch 3 Coils
703 lb. Cordage — 1 ½ Inch — 8 Coils
1 Old Cable
4950 lb. Spun Yarn — 80 Coils
10650 lb. Old Junk —
517 lb. Line of [undecipherable] 6 ¾ Inch — 1 Coil [undecipherable]
194 lb. Cordage — 6 ¾ Inch — 1 Coil [undecipherable]
59 Gallons Boiled Oil
112 lb. fine powdered Red Lead
564 lb. Litharage
13 ¾ lb. Ground Verdignace
14 lb. Blue paint
6 lb. Vermillion
448 lb. White Lead
448 lb. Venetian Red
224 lb. Spanish brown
448 lb. Yellow Ochre
27 ½ Gal. Spirits Turpintine (cont in 9 Jugs)
10 Barrels Tar
10 Barrels Pitch
10 Barrels Turpintine
48 Stick Brooms
72 Bunchen split do
4 Sweeping Brushes
18 Scrubbing brush —
103 Ash Staves for 24 & 12 Prs
380 lb. sewing Twine
120 lb. whiping Twine
350 lb. Marline & Housline
4542 lb. sheet Lead (10 Rolls)
2 ½ lb. Coloured Thread
2 hundred Needles
15 doz. Hooks & Thimbles
20 doz. Thimbles
24 doz. Staples
104 Mattrases
1 Hollow knife drawing
1 Cruse
6 lb. Nails
1 sett 10 Gal. Tub Hoops
1 Inch Shave
1 Bundle Flags
300 White Oak Staves (Hhd)
100 Hhd Heading
[strikethrough: 10 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]
6 large Brass Sheives
200 lb. Chalk
10 Gal. 4 ½ pints of Spermacito Oil
6 Brass Cegs
226 lb. Black Lead
199 Outside Jackets
200 Hats
300 Inside Jackets
200 pairs Woolen Trowsers
200 pairs of Drawers
300 Check Shirts
200 pairs Shoes & Pumps
200 Linen Frocks
29 Prs Bandanoes
196 pairs Duck Trowsers
34 White Shirts for Barge men
201 Striped Blankets
4 Ruggs
24 Scrubbing bush Clamps
2 Large Hammers
2174 Yds Old Canvas
20 lb. Bees Wax
20 lb. Tallow
13 lb. House Line
2 Hoses
312 lb. Twine
1000 sail Needles
49 Pammes
19 ¾ Yds sail duck
57 Prs sail duck
425 lb. Bolt rope
12 Cot Hammocks
302 Common Hammocks
14 Sacking Bottoms
5 Tarpowlings
3 Awnings for Ship
1 — do for Barge
7 Coats
2 sails for Jolly Boat
3 sails for Lanch
2 sails for Pennace
1 Wind sail
2 Main sails
2 Main Top sails
2 Main Top Gallant sails
2 — do — do Royalls
2 — do — do stay sails
2 Middle stay sails
2 Top Gallant stay sails
2 Main Lower steering sails
2 Main Top — — do — do
2 — do — do Gallant sails
2 Fore sails
2 Fore top Gallant sails
2 Fore Top royalls
2 Fore Top stay sails
1 Fore stay sail
2 Jibbs
1 Jibb of Jibbs
1 Sprit Sail
1 Sprit sail Top sail
1 Spanker
2 Fore Top steering sails
2 Fore Top gallant steering sails
2 Lower steering sails
2 Mizen stay sails
2 — do Top stay sails
2 — do Middle stay sails
2 do Top Gallant sails
2 Boom Mizens
2 Mizen Royalls
2 Mizen Top sails
1 Royal stay sails
1 Main Stay sail
61 Boxes [undecipherable] Shot
all the articles specified in the preceeding Invoice in good
Order and which I promise to — — to be accountable
for the use of the Frigate United States —
Signed Duplicates
[signature]
Type
Copy of document
Description
A ten-page list of sundries for the Frigate "United States," commanded by Captain John Barry.
Date
07/12/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798071290001
Page start
1
Note
Neither the author nor recipient is shown but, based on content, the author is presumed to be John Harris, Keeper of Military Stores, and the recipient, Captain John Barry, Commander of the Frigate "United States."
Notable persons
John Barry
John Harris
Notable items
Frigate United States
frigate
military supplies
steelyards
brass seals
brass weights
tin funnels
bass cock
gallon measures
half gallon measures
quart measures
pint measures
half pint measures
gill meaures sealing wax
black ink powder
paper
cartridge paper
pocket ink stand
box of wafers
sand box
slate
pencil
penknife
round ruler
blank book
sand
ink stand
compass
patent lamps
horse shoe magnet
hour glass
hourglass
pocket half hour glass
signal
pilot for the West Indias
books
chart
signal flags
jacks
copper funnel
ensign
chamber pots
basins
punning pans
flower boxes
pepper box
coffee pot
sauce pan
cheese toaster
tea kettle
soup ladle
cullender
tea spoons
candles
musket ball
pistol ball
speaking trumpets
green half thicks
table knives
forks
boarding pikes
powder horns
cutlasses
flannel cartridges
cannon cartridge
slow match
flints
lanthorns
lanters
boarding axes
sheep skins
rope handles
shot
round shot
bar shot
chopping axes
tompions
stools
frames
panes of glass
powder
pistols
muskets
stocks
rammers sponge
rammer heads
sponge heads
ladles
staves
paintbrushes
skeets
nails
book
books
sherry wine
Lisbon wine
port wine
wine
molasses
brandy
oatmeal
raisins
tea
allspice
mustard
pepper
ginger
meal
barley
chocolate
lemon juice
rice
sugar
porter
linseed oil
vinegar
tamarind
sage
tapioca
spruce
pots
cups
camp kettles
spoons
canisters
bed pans
sconces
coopers tools
blocks
oakum
pumps
hides
cordage
yarn
lead
boiled oil
paint
verdigris
vermillion
turpentine
pitch
brooms
brushes
twine
thread
needles
hooks
thimbles
staples
mattresses
knife
hoops
shave
flags
chalk
spermaceti oil
cogs
jackets
hats
trousers
drawers
shirts
shoes
frocks
bandages
blankets
rugs
hammers
beeswax
tallow
hoses
twine
duck
hammocks
sacking bottoms
tarpaulins
awnings
jolly boat
sails
jibs
mizens

