Request for Issue of Musket Stocks to Arms Manufacturers in Danbury, Connecticut
Document 1799Directs issue of 200 musket stocks to contractors in Danbury, CT, for use in arms manufacture. There is also a note describing some mitigating circumstance in the delivery, presumably written by John Harris.
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[War Office June 21, 1799
Con. Feb. 8 this
Ought & Clark &c. as sent
A general out]
War department June 24. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Jun. Dep. Quarter Master General to be transported to Danbury in Connecticut to the address and use of Mess. Joseph lclark and Co. Contractors for fabricating small arms two hundred seasoned black Walnut Musket Stocks —
James M Beeny
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr. John Harris
[Captain [undecipherable] presents that after the [undecipherable] — he is to go tomorrow and [undecipherable] to take to deliver them to Danbury when they are [undecipherable]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of 200 musket stocks to contractors in Danbury, CT, for use in arms manufacture. There is also a note describing some mitigating circumstance in the delivery, presumably written by John Harris.
Date
06/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799062400201
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
Quartermaster General
Joseph Clark and Co
contractors
Captain Homideau
Notable locations
War Office
Danbury, Connecticut
Notable items
fabricating small arms
seasoned black walnut musket stocks
gun stocks