Responds to Need for Musket Stock, Superintendent's Horse
Document 1799Responds to inquiry for hoop and red iron. Refers to the return of stores and the musket stocks damaged by fire. Promises to send supply of musket stocks by the first convenient conveyance. If the horse purchased for the Superintendent is too vicious, it should be sold and another bought to replace it, or a yoke of oxen as an experiment.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Responds to inquiry for hoop and red iron. Refers to the return of stores and the musket stocks damaged by fire. Promises to send supply of musket stocks by the first convenient conveyance. If the horse purchased for the Superintendent is too vicious, it should be sold and another bought to replace it, or a yoke of oxen as an experiment.
Date
05/22/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1799052228055
Page start
451
Notable persons
Joseph Williams
Samuel Hodgdon
Col. Stevens
Superintendent
James McHenry
Notable locations
Springfield
Philadelphia
New York
Notable items
Hoop
Red Iron
Musket Stocks
Splices
Pistol Stocks
Horse
Oxen