Powder at the Magazine on the Schuylkill
Document 1798Hodgdon describes the limited amounts of powder available at the magazine on the Schuylkill River and notes that much more should be ordered from New York to fill the uses most applied for.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon describes the limited amounts of powder available at the magazine on the Schuylkill River and notes that much more should be ordered from New York to fill the uses most applied for.
Date
06/27/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798072728055
Page start
159
Notable persons
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Magazine on Schuylkill
New York
Notable items
barrels
quarter casks
fine powder
barrels of cannon powder