Request to deliver gun stocks
Document 1799Letter, directs delivery of thirteen hundred best seasoned black walnut musket stocks for use of Kingsley and Perkins, contractors for furnishing the United States with muskets at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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[Docket: Intendants Office / Nov 2d 1799 / Gun Stocks to be Dd the / Secy of the Treasury]
Sir, Philadelphia 2d Nov. 1799.
Be pleased to deliver Captain Seth Dagg[undecipherable: on],
or order, Thirteen hundred best seasoned black wal-
nut Gun Stocks, for the use of Messrs Kinsley & Perkins,
Contractors for furnishing the United States with Muskets
at Bridgewater in the state of Massachusetts —
you will be careful to take duplicate receipts for this, and
every similar delivery as has before been enjoined —
your most obedient servant
Mr John Harris. Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, directs delivery of thirteen hundred best seasoned black walnut musket stocks for use of Kingsley and Perkins, contractors for furnishing the United States with muskets at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Date
11/02/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1799110228101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
Captain Seth Daggett
Kinsley & Perkins
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Bridgewater
Massachusetts
Notable items
gun stocks
black walnut gun stocks
muskets