Request for Issue of Arms to 12th & 16th Regiments
Document 1799Directs issue of arms for 12th and 16th Regiments.
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[War Office
June 19. 1799
Musters to be sent to New York for the 12th & 16 Co.
[undecipherable] trowels]
War department June 19. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Junr Esqr Quarter Master General One thousand three hundred and sixty stands of Arms to be transported to New York to the address of Colonel Ebenezer Stevens for the use of the Twelfth and sixteenth Regiments of Infantry — the Arms to be of [strikethrough: those lately imported from Europe] the Charlesville Pattern and to be ready for transportation immediately
James McHenry
[undecipherable: Samuel Atkinson?]
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of arms for 12th and 16th Regiments.
Date
06/19/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799061900301
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
John Wilkins
Colonel Ebenezer Stevens
12th Regiment
16th Regiment
Quartermaster General
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
War Department
Europe
New York
Notable items
deliver
stands of arms
transported to New York
arms to be of the Charlesville Pattern
those lately imported from Europe
to be ready for transportation immediately.