Forwarding a Box of Charleville Muskets
Document 1798Hodgdon apoligizes for what he deems the mortifying delay in the shipment of a box of Charleville muskets intended for Dexter.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon apoligizes for what he deems the mortifying delay in the shipment of a box of Charleville muskets intended for Dexter.
Date
11/19/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798111928055
Page start
285
Notable persons
John Dexter
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of the Treasury [Oliver Wolcott, Jr.]
Melancton Smith
Contractors
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New York
Notable items
Charleville muskets
melancholy state of this city
confusion
injury of the States