Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies to Elements, 4th Regiment at Salisbury
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing, arms & accoutrements, equipment, and musical instruments to men of the 4th Regiment at Salisbury, NC.
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War department 11 June 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Junr Esqr. Quarter Master General to be transported to Salisbury in the State of North Carolina to the address of Captain Ros Bird, Infantry Clothing for four Sergeants two Musicians and sixty four privates of the fourth Regiments also sixty eight stands of Arms and Accoutrements One Drum and fife and Seventy Knapsacks and seventy [undecipherable] Canteens also four Sergeants Swords & Belts —
James McHenry
[undecipherable: Samuel Hodgdon?]
[Compt]
Mr John Harris
[War Office
June 11. 1799
Order for the Army]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing, arms & accoutrements, equipment, and musical instruments to men of the 4th Regiment at Salisbury, NC.
Date
06/11/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799061100101
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
multiple
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Salisbury
North Carolina