Direction to purchase iron for manufacture of muskets at Springfield Armory
Document 1799Mr. Francis has been directed to purchase and deposit to Harris 1500 weight of best iron for upper barrels for muskets to be rolled for the use of the armory at Springfield. Deliver to Samuel Hodgdon.
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War departmento 11. February 1799.
Sir
Mr. Francis has been directed to purchase and deposit with you [underline: Fifteen hundred] weight of the best Iron for upper bands for Muskets to be rolled four and an half inches wide and the twelfth part of an Inch thick also five hundred weight for trigger plates, five tenths of an inch wide and two and an half tenths of an inch thick for the use of the Armoury at Springfelo. As soon as the same are received you will be pleased to deliver them to Samuel Hodgdon for transportation —
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[War Office
February 11th 1799.
Iron & Steel to be forwd to
[underline: Springfield] —
Complied]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Mr. Francis has been directed to purchase and deposit to Harris 1500 weight of best iron for upper barrels for muskets to be rolled for the use of the armory at Springfield. Deliver to Samuel Hodgdon.
Date
02/04/1799
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1799020400201
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Mr Francis
military storekeeper
Tench Francis
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Springfield Armory
armoury
Massachusetts
War Department
Notable items
iron
purchase
deliver
upper barrels of muskets
rolling of iron
arms manufacture