Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies to 15th Regiment at Boston
Document 1799Directs issue of assorted articles, including clothing, equipment, camp supplies, etc., to the 15th Regiment at Boston.
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[War Office
May 2. 1799
Clothing &c. to be delivered
for the 15th Regt. Infty.]
War department May 2. 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the Quarter Master General to be forwarded by him to Jonathan Jackson Esq at Boston the following articles for the fifteenth Regiment of Infantry viz forty two complete suits for Sergeants, twenty two complete suits for Musicians and [strikethrough: six hundred] and forty suits for privates — also six hundred and eighty Cartouch Boxes six hundreds and eighty screw drivers six hundreds and eighty Bayonet Belts sixty four Sergeants Swords, ten Drums Carriages sticks and cases ten fifes with cases One Marquee with poles complete twenty five horseman 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 (the Woollen Overalls need not go with the other articles of Clothing — Seven hundred & four knapsacks.
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of assorted articles, including clothing, equipment, camp supplies, etc., to the 15th Regiment at Boston.
Date
05/02/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1799050200201
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
clothing
equipment
camp supplies
articles