Request for Issue of Military Stores, & a Return of Their Distribution
Document 1799Directs issue of weapons, ammunition, clothing, tools & equipment. Also includes a return of how the items were distributed to different units.
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[War Office
March 30. 1799
[undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the
Quarter Master General]
War Department March 30. 1799.
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of John Wilkins Jund Esqr Quarter Master General, Twenty pairs of Pistols- eight hundred Pistol Cartridges, Four thousand Musket Cartridges, Six Horsemans Tents twenty seven Common Tents Sixty Knapsacks, Sixty Haversacks, Sixty Canteens, Sixty Tin Cups, twenty seven Camp Kettles, Six Axes, Six Spades, twenty seven Tomahawks, Sixty Brushes and prickers, Two hundreds and forty flints, Sixty Bayonet Belts, Sixty Turnserews, Sixty Gun Worms, Sixty Cartridge Boxes and Sixty Blankets —
James McHenry
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr John Harris
[Order for the Supplies to be Sent to [undecipherable] &
No. 30 March 1799]
Return of Articles wanted for the following Troops — delivered to Major [undecipherable]
Names & Places | D.B. Kains Infantry at Reading | Kennedys [undecipherable] in Montgomery [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] Capt Montgomery
Pair Pistols | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Pistol Cartidges | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Muskt Cartidges | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Com. Tents | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Haversacks | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Painted Knapsacks | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Wooden Canteens | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Tin Cups | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Blankets | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Horsemans tents | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Camp Kettles | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Axes | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Spades | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Tomyhawks | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Brushes & [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Flints Muskt | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Flints Pistol | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Cartouch Boxes | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Screw Drivers | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Gun Worms | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Com Tent Poles | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
Horsemans do. do. | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable] | [undecipherable]
[N.B. all those [undecipherable]]
No. 30 March 1799
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of weapons, ammunition, clothing, tools & equipment. Also includes a return of how the items were distributed to different units.
Date
03/30/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799033000401
Page start
1
Note
Encloses a return of articles wanted for troops by William MacPherson.
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
Notable items
weapons
ammunition
clothing
tools
equipment

