Request for Powder and Lead
Document 1799Request for lead and gunpowder to prove musket barrels.
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Colonel Hodgdon.
Sir
Be pleased to give an order to Mr Bass to furnish me with two quarter-casks of Gunpowder and 56lb of Lead, as I have a number of Barrels to move for the Globe Mill this afternoon. Your compliance will oblige
Your obedient Servant
John Nicholson
[28th September 1799. Mr Bass will deliver the above Powder and Lead — Samuel Hodgdon]
[Intendants Office Sepr. 30th 1799 Powder & Lead to be Dd Nicholson Dt]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Request for lead and gunpowder to prove musket barrels.
Date
09/28/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799092880001
Page start
1
Note
The letter also contains two notes, apparently of the same date. The first, in the same hand as the letter, and is signed Rm. C & Co. The second is from Samuel Hodgdon.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Nicholson
Mr. Bass
Notable locations
Intendent's Office
Intendant's Office
Globe Mill
Notable items
quarter casks
gunpowder
lead
barrels