Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies to 6th Regiment at Wilmington, NC
Document 1799Directs delivery of uniforms, accoutrements, arms, camp items, and office supplies for 6th Regiment at Wilmington, North Carolina. An attached note discusses the need for sending arms and gun worms to Wilmington & Charleston. This note is signed N. Jones, but is undated and unaddressed.
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Directs delivery of uniforms, accoutrements, arms, camp items, and office supplies for 6th Regiment at Wilmington, North Carolina. An attached note discusses the need for sending arms and gun worms to Wilmington & Charleston. This note is signed N. Jones, but is undated and unaddressed.
Date
07/02/1799
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Recipient
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Document number
1799070200201
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2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
military storekeeper
John Wilkins
sixth regiment of Infantry
Griffith J. McRee
John Wilkins Junior
quartermaster general
N. Jones
6th Infantry Regiment
Secretary of War
colonels
Notable locations
War Department
Wilmington, North Carolina
Charleston
South Carolina
Notable items
sergeants clothing
musicians clothing
privates clothing
stands of arms
cartouch boxes
bayonet belts and scabbards
flints
screwdrivers
gun worms brushes and wires
sergeants swords and belts
drums with carriages and cases
fifes with cases
marquee with poles and pins
horseman's tents with ditto
common tents with ditto
knapsacks
camp kettles
canteens with straps
mess bowls
platters or Trenchers
felling axes
pick axes
spades
orderly books
reams of paper
papers of ink powder
quills.