Request for Issue of Musket Cartridge Materials
Document 1799Directs issue of musket cartridge materials, which will be assembled and sent to New York.
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[War Office / June 28. 1799]
[Musket Balls. Harra]
[Order to Col. Stevens]
[Col Stevens —]
[Jno Harris]
[Hodgdon]
War department June 28. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Junr Quarter Master General ten Boxes Musket Balls and a sufficient quantity of paper and thread for having the same made up into Musket Cartridges. to be transported to New York to the address of Col. Ebenezer Stevens —
Mr John Harris. James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of musket cartridge materials, which will be assembled and sent to New York.
Date
06/28/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799062800001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
Colonel Ebenezer Stevens
Secretary of War
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins Junior
Quartermaster General
Notable locations
New York
War Department
Notable items
musket balls
paper
thread
musket cartridges
transport