Seeks to Provide Musket Balls
Document 1799Seeks suitable supply of musket cartridges under care of Col. Stevens. Reports debt to the state when troops marched under Captain Henry. For payment, recommends sending box of musket balls. Suggests that Stevens's men put them together at Fort Jay. These guns will be called for when the army takes the field.
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Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Seeks suitable supply of musket cartridges under care of Col. Stevens. Reports debt to the state when troops marched under Captain Henry. For payment, recommends sending box of musket balls. Suggests that Stevens's men put them together at Fort Jay. These guns will be called for when the army takes the field.
Date
06/28/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1799062828255
Page start
489
Note
Syrett listed these documents in the Appendix to vol. 23.
Enclosed in McHenry to Hamilton, 06/29/1799.
Notable persons
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Ebeneezer Stevens
Captain Henry
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New York
Fort Jay
Springfield
York
Notable items
Musket Balls
Brass Ordnance
Carriages