Request for Issue of Gun Stocks to Springfield Armory
Document 1798Letter, directs shipment of 3,000 gun stocks to armory Springfield, Mass.
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[Docket:
War Office
Sept 7th 1798.
Muskt Stocks to be [undecipherable: probable reading "forw'd"]
to Joseph Williams Esq
Public Store Keeper —]
War department September 7. 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esq for transportation to Springfield, Massachusetts, three thousand Gun Stocks [interlined: Joseph Williams] to be addressed to David Ames Esq Storekeepers —
James McHenry
[signature]
Mr. John Harris
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, directs shipment of 3,000 gun stocks to armory Springfield, Mass.
Date
09/07/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798090700101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
Samuel Hodgdon
Jospeh Williams, David Ames
Notable locations
War Department
Springfield
Massachusetts
Notable items
deliver
for transportation
gun stocks
storekeeper