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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War department July 2. 1799.
Sir,
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Junr. Esqr. Quarter Master Genl for transportation to Wilmington North Carolina the following articles for the use of the Sixth Regiment of Infantry viz — Forty four Sergeants twenty two Musicians and six hundred and forty suits of privates Clothing — Also six hundred and eighty four stands of Arms, six hundred and eighty four Cartouche Boxes Six hundred and eighty four Bayonet Belts and Scabbards, Two thousand and fifty two flints, six hundred and eighty four Screwdrivers, Six hundred and eighty four Gun Worms Six hundred and eighty four Brushes and Wires, Forty four Sergeants Swords and Belts, Ten drums with carriages and cases, Ten fifes with cases one Marquee with poles & pins twenty five Horsemans Tents with ditto One hundred and forty four common Tents with ditto Seven hundred and six Knapsacks one hundred and forty five Camp Kettles Seven hundred and forty four Canteens with straps one hundred and twenty two Mess Bowls, seven hundred and six platters a Trenchers ten felling axes Ten Pick Axes Ten Spades, Ten [undecipherable] orderly books. Two Reams of paper forty four papers of Ink powder and four hundred of Quills — The whole to be address'd to his [undecipherable] I McKee Esqr —
James McHenry
& Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[War Office July 2o 1799 Instructions &c be pleased for the 6th Regt]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
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
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799070200201
Page start
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Note
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.

