Cannon, Implements, & Ball to Goat Island
Document 1798Hodgdon discusses the means by which arms are to be sent to Goat Island, near Newport, Rhode Island.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon discusses the means by which arms are to be sent to Goat Island, near Newport, Rhode Island.
Date
08/23/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798082328355
Page start
193
Notable persons
Ebenezer Stevens
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War [McHenry]
Mr. Blugge
Mr. Faesch
Capt. William Littlefield
Notable locations
New York
Philadelphia
Goat Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Providence
Notable items
heavy cannon, implements, cannon and ball
barrels of cannon powder
twenty four pounder shot
expense