Enclosed Orders to Deliver Bed Sacks
Document 1798Cover letter for orders to deliver bed sacks be made to coxswain of the Fort Mifflin barge.
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[War Office Nov. 1. 1798]
[Brig[adier?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Memminger
to act [undecipherable] to be att[ached?]]
War department Novemd. 1. 1798
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Lieutenant Memminger fifty Bed sacks — should there be none in store issue the materials sufficient for the making of them
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Mr John Harris Fort Mifflin Nov. 3. 1798
Sir} Be pleased to deliver the 50 sacks mentioned in the within order to John Steele Coxswain of the Fort Barge —
Theod Memminger
Lieut & Dy Q.M. —
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Cover letter for orders to deliver bed sacks be made to coxswain of the Fort Mifflin barge.
Date
11/03/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798110380001
Page start
3
Note
This letter on the back of McHenry and Hodgdon to Harris, 11/01/1798.
Document is page 3 of collection.
Notable persons
John Harris
Lieutenant Theodore Memminger
John Steele
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Samuel Hodgdon
military storekeeper
coxswain
Notable locations
Fort Mifflin
barge
Notable items
bed sacks
materials
deliver
sacks
orders
to coxswain of the fort barge