Request for Issue of Powder & Lead for Proving Gun Barrels
Document 1799Delivery of powder and lead for proving of gun barrels.
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[War Office
March 19. 1799
Circular relating to be of
Mr Nicholson, for the
purpose of Cannon
Barrels —]
War department March 19. 1799
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to Mr John Nicholson One Quarter bark of powder and fifty pounds of lead for proving Gun Barrels —
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Delivery of powder and lead for proving of gun barrels.
Date
03/19/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799031900201
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
John Nicholson
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
deliver
one quarter caskofpowder
fifty pounds of lead for proving gun barrells.