Notification of Medicine Shipment for Fort Mifflin Troops
Document 1799Notifies that medicine is being purchased for Fort Mifflin garrison, directs that it be forwarded to them when it arrives.
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War department 22 February 1799.
Sir
The Purveyor has been directed to purchase a small quantity of medicines for the use of the Garrison at Fort Mifflin, as soon as they are deposited in the public Store he pleases to deliver them to the order of Captain Joseph Elliott —
James McHenry
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr John Harris
[War Office Philadelphia 22d 1799 — [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] Clerk for the use of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Notifies that medicine is being purchased for Fort Mifflin garrison, directs that it be forwarded to them when it arrives.
Date
02/22/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799022200401
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
medicine