Request for Issue of Clothing & Accoutrements to 12th Regiment Men in New York
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing, instruments, knapsacks & canteens to men of the 12th Regiment in NY.
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War department March 30.th 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esq. for transportation to New York addressed to Col. Ebenez̃er Stevens — three hundred suits of Infantry clothing twenty of them to be Sergeants and twenty Musicians — also ten drums and ten fifes three hundred Knapsacks and three hundred Canteens —
You will be particularly attentive that the buttons on this Clothing shall be marked 12. Regiment.
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[War Office March 30. 1799 — pro suits of Infy Clothing for transportation to New York to Col. Stevens for 12th Reg —]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing, instruments, knapsacks & canteens to men of the 12th Regiment in NY.
Date
03/30/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799033000201
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 Office
New York
Notable items
clothing
instruments
knapsacks
canteens