State of Arms, Supplies, and Recruiting
Document 1799Rice reports on the state of arms, supplies, and recruiting at Hingham.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Rice reports on the state of arms, supplies, and recruiting at Hingham.
Date
07/08/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Hingham, Massachusetts
Collection
Document number
1799070860000
Note
Cited in Hamilton to Rice, 08/14/1799.
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
Nathan Rice
my Quartermaster [Daniel Hastings]
soldiers
Mr. Jackson, the Supervisor
commanding officer of each company
Notable locations
Hingham, Massachusetts
Springfield
regimental rendezvous
General Lincoln
Mr. Francis Barker, a deserving young man who would make a good subaltern officer
Secretary of War [McHenry]
Notable items
arms
[distributing arms at Springfield] will save considerable expense to the public for transportation
cartridge boxes
knapsacks
some kind of skin dressed with the hair...preferable to painted canvass
canteens
set of tent poles provided made of such wood as would be light for transportation
injuring the tents by pitching
hats...have arrived without cockades
the tin eagles I have also engaged
my monthly return
state of the recruits
every disqualification for the service which shall be discovered in a recruit