Request for Issue of Cannon, Cannon Implements, & Artillerists' Accoutrements
Document 1799Directs issue of cannon & cannon implements, as well as gunners' accoutrements.
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War department March 15. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Captain Joseph Elliott or order. Two Brass three pounders four Rammers and Sponges Two Sadles and Worms One hundred rounds fixed shropped Shot Seventy five do grape do Seventy five bare ditto two Pole Boxes three hundred tubes Seventy two portfires Sixty skeins slow Matches Two Tumbrels four setts Mens Harness two Gunner Haversacks four powder horns, two quarter casks Musket powder for priming four Gunstocks, four port fire Sticks, two Gunners Belts complete four falling axes. two Gofine Hatchets and three good horses [strikethrough: to each gun and two to each Tumbrel] also four setts of Drag ropes.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
14th
Mr John Harris
[cover]: War Office March 18. 1799 Instructions to be given Joseph Elliott
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of cannon & cannon implements, as well as gunners' accoutrements.
Date
03/15/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799031500301
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department