Request for Issue of 9th Regiment Buttons
Document 1799Directs immediate issue to Baltimore of 9th Regiment buttons sufficient for 300 coats.
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War Office
May 24th 1799
Buttons to be forwd to
John Swan Esq for the
9th Regt.
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War department May 24. 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the Quarter Master General for transportation to Baltimore to the address of General John Swan Buttons sufficient for three hundred Coats, he has undertaken to have made — the Buttons to be for the 9. Regiment ——
You will have them delivered immediately
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris [undecipherable: 4[??]] large
1350 small
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs immediate issue to Baltimore of 9th Regiment buttons sufficient for 300 coats.
Date
05/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799052400301
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
Quartermaster General
General John Swan
9th Regiment
Notable locations
War Department
Baltimore
Notable items
transportation
buttons
coats