Request for Issue of Arms, Accoutrements & Equipment, as a Company Exchanges Previous Armament
Document 1799Directs issue of arms, accoutrements & equipment; informs Harris that the officer of the company receiving these supplies will submit some other muskets, etc. to be put back into military stores.
War Office March 11 1799 Arms & Accoutrements to be Dld Capt Matthias Barton of the Militia War department March 11. 1799 Sir Be pleased to deliver to Captain Matthias Barton Sixty eight stands of Arms and Accoutrements, manufactured in the United States, also Six Serjeant Swords and Belts, and sixty eight Knapsacks taking his receipt to be accounted for or returned at the expiration of the engagement or other discharge of his Company pursuant to the third Section of the supplement to the Act authorizing the President to raise a Provincial Army. Captain Barton will deliver you a few Muskets Bayonets and Cartouch Boxes which you will be pleased to receive into the public stores James McHenry Samuel Hodgdon Mr. John Harris
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