Request for Issue of Clothing & Equipment for 19th Regiment at New Haven
Document 1799Directs issue of clothing & equipment for the 19th Regiment at New Haven, CT.
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War department June 22. 1799
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Jund. Esqr. for transportation to New Haven in the State of Connecticut to the address of Phelps & Stamford the following articles viz. twenty four Sergeants Suits, two Musicians Suits and three hundred and eighty privates Suits, for the use of the thirteenth Regiment of Infantry — also four hundred and forty four canteens with straps four hundred and six Knapsacks [strikethrough: for four years knapick axes and Tin Spears, to be in orderly Books —] [strikethrough: [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]
[strikethrough: done —]
James Whitney
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr. John Harris
[War Office
June 22. 1799
Q. office for the
13 — Cts —]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing & equipment for the 19th Regiment at New Haven, CT.
Date
06/22/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799062200001
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
John Wilkins Jr
Phelps & Stamford
sergeants
privates
musicians
13th Regiment of Infantry
Notable locations
War Office
New Haven, Connecticut
Notable items
transportation
suits
canteends with straps
knapsacks
felling axes
spades
orderly books