Request for Issue of Cartridge Materials
Document 1799Delivery of powder, paper and thread for blank cartridges.
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War Office
May 9th 1799,
Sundries to be Dr Caspar
Morris for the use of the
Volunteer Company
War department May 9. 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Caspar Morris Quarter Master of the Volunteer Companies in the City of Philadelphia two hundred and fifty pounds of powder and twenty five quires of paper and a proportional quantity of thread for making blank Cartridges
James McHenry
Mr John Harris
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Delivery of powder, paper and thread for blank cartridges.
Date
05/09/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1799050900701
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Caspar Morris
Notable locations
War Department
Philadelphia
Notable items
deliver
volunteer companies
powder
paper
thread
blank cartridges