Request for Issue of Cannon Implements & an Ammunition Wagon
Document 1799Directs delivery of ammunition and equipment for six-pounder cannon, as well as an ammunition wagon. A note identifying the receiving officer for the munitions, by an individual whose signature is illegible, is appended.
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War department July 1. 1799
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Captain Thomas McLuen, One Bundle of Tubes — Two dozen Sticks of Port fire One Six pound Rammer and Sponge and flannel sufficient for seventeen Cartridges for Six pounders. also one Ammunition waggon to be returned —
James McHenry
[signature]
100 6 Po. Tubes do +
Mr John Harris
[Endorsement on exterior panel: War Office / July 1. 1799. / Jno Harris / [undecipherable]]
[Filing notation on exterior panel: 459 / [undecipherable]]
[Endorsement on verso: Return the within omitted — articles to [undecipherable] Genl or either [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] / [signature] / Philad. 1 [undecipherable] 1799]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs delivery of ammunition and equipment for six-pounder cannon, as well as an ammunition wagon. A note identifying the receiving officer for the munitions, by an individual whose signature is illegible, is appended.
Date
07/01/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799070100101
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
Captain Thomas McEuen
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
bundle of tubes
sticks of port fire
six pound rammer and spunge
flannel
cartridge
pounders
ammunition waggon