Request for Issue of Clothing, Equipment & Instruments to 13th Regiment Men in Connecticut
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing, haversacks, canteens, and instruments for men of the 13th Regiment in CT.
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[War Office
(March 30 1799
300 Suits of Infy Clothing &
to be foru. to Timothy Phelps &
a Merchant to
be forwarded &
Conceded &]
War department March 30th 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Samuel Hodgdon Esqr for transportation to New Haven Connecticut to the address of Timothy Phelps Esqr Merchant — Three hundred Suits of Infantry Clothing twenty of them to be Sergeants and twenty Musicians. You will be particularly attentive that the Buttons on the Clothing shall be marked 13. Regiment —
You will also deliver to Mr Hodgdon for transportation to the same place ten drums and ten fifes and three hundred Knapsacks and three hundred Canteens —
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing, haversacks, canteens, and instruments for men of the 13th Regiment in CT.
Date
03/30/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799033000301
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
Connecticut
Notable items
clothing
haversacks
canteens
instruments