Difficulty in Transporting Pattern Muskets
Document 1798Hodgdon discusses the difficulty of transporting the pattern muskets to Kilty either by land or water during the winter.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Hodgdon discusses the difficulty of transporting the pattern muskets to Kilty either by land or water during the winter.
Date
12/14/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798121428055
Page start
316
Note
Cited in Kilty to Hodgdon, 02/11/1799.
Notable persons
John Kilty
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of the Treasury [Oliver Wolcott, Jr.]
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
pattern muskets
present state of transportation
land
water
river
first craft
usual route
delay