Request for Issue of Large Shipment of Military Stores to 14th Regiment at Boston
Document 1799Directs issue of uniforms, tools, equipment, swords, instruments, tents, etc. to the 14th Regiment at Boston.
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[Clothing accounts to be forwarded & distributed for the 14th Regt]
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War department May 1. 1799.
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the Quarter Master General to be forwarded by him to Jonathan Jackson Esqr at Boston the following Articles for the fourteenth Regiment viz— forty two complete suits for Sergeants, twenty two complete suits for Musicians and six hundred and forty suits for privates — also six hundred and eighty [undecipherable: Gun] Boxes six hundred and eighty screw drivers six hundred and eighty Bayonet Belts Sixty four Sergeant Swords ten Drums Carriages Sticks and cases ten [undecipherable] with cases. One Marquee with poles complete— twenty five Horsemans tents with poles complete— [strikethrough: fifty Horsemans tents with poles complete] one hundred and forty four common Tents with poles complete one hundred and twenty Camp Kettles and Seven hundred and four Canteens with Straps— [Woollen Overalls need not go with the other Articles of clothing]— Seven hundred and four Knapsacks
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of uniforms, tools, equipment, swords, instruments, tents, etc. to the 14th Regiment at Boston.
Date
05/01/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1799050100101
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Boston
Massachusetts
Notable items
uniforms
tools
equipment
swords
instruments
tents

