Request for Issue of Powder & Lead for Proving Gun Barrels
Document 1799Directs issue of powder & lead for proving gun barrels.
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[War Office
Dec 14th 1799.
Circular order to the Mr?
Mr Nicholson for the purpose
of Proving musket Barrels
p 2 —]
War department December 14. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Nicholson One Quarter Cask of Gunpowder and fifty pounds of lead for the purpose of proving Gun Barrels —
James McHenry
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr John Harris
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of powder & lead for proving gun barrels.
Date
12/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799121400001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
John Nicholson
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
gunpowder
lead
gun barrels