Suitable Person for Inspecting the Saddlery Work
Document 1799Dana has received Hodgdon's note with a description of the proposed pistol. He has responded to Hodgdon's request to locate a suitable gentleman in the Connecticut representation to inspect the saddlery work at New London but is unable to name a person who would be sufficiently responsible in this business.
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Samuel Hodgdon Esqr
Intendant of Stores
[Docket, inverted: 18 Jany 179[2?] / War Office by [undecipherable] D]
Mr Dana has rec.d Mr Hodgdon's note of the 14th with a description of the proposed pistol.
He has attended to Mr Hodgdon's requests to be informed of a suitable person for inspecting the sadlery work at New London & for this purpose has inquired of such gentlemen in the Connecticut representation as he deemed best acquainted with that vicinity. Yet, after considering the Subject, Mr Dana can not name a person for whom he would be responsible in this business.
Jany 18th 179[undecipherable]
Type
Letter, Type Undetermined
Description
Dana has received Hodgdon's note with a description of the proposed pistol. He has responded to Hodgdon's request to locate a suitable gentleman in the Connecticut representation to inspect the saddlery work at New London but is unable to name a person who would be sufficiently responsible in this business.
Date
01/18/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799011880101
Page start
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Dana