Delivery of Muskets & Flints to Samuel Hodgdon
Document 1799Stevens is directed to deliver 25 cases containing 500 muskets with locks mounting and two casks containing 63,500 flints to the order of Samuel Hodgdon, Intendent of the stores of the United States.
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[Docket, written sideways:]
Memorands or r[undecipherable]
to
25 cases Muskets &
2 Casks Flints.
19th February 99
Entd 21st June
1799
[(37)]
[Received
State Dep't.
from
Nov. 24. 1894.
I.F.O. 401810.]
Copy of an order on which a duplicate of the annexed receipt is written.—
War Office,
Philadelphia 6th Feby 1799.
Sir,
You will be pleased to deliver the twenty five cases said to contain five hundred muskets, with locks, mounting &c and the two Casks said to contain Sixty three thousand five hundred Flints, to the order of Samuel Hodgdon Intendant of the stores of the United States
(signed) James McHenry
Secy. of War
New York 12th Feby 1799. Received of Jas & Ebent Watson the above mentioned [strikethrough: boxes of muskets] and casks of flints, one of the muskets having been taken out of box No 1 to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, having signed another receipt of this date.—
(signed) Ebent Stevens
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Stevens is directed to deliver 25 cases containing 500 muskets with locks mounting and two casks containing 63,500 flints to the order of Samuel Hodgdon, Intendent of the stores of the United States.
Date
02/06/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office, Philadelphia
Document number
1799020600001
Page start
1
Note
Included is the receipt of Ebenezer Stevens, 02/12/1799.
Notable persons
Ebenezer Stevens
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Office, Philadelphia

