Request for Issue of Cannon Implements for Fort Mifflin
Document 1799Directs issue of cannon powder & implements for use by the garrison of Fort Mifflin.
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War department December 24. 1799.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Steele for the use of the Garrison at Fort Mifflin four Barrells of Cannon powder, one Quarter Cask of priming powder twelve flint Stocks and [strikethrough: thirty] two pounder Rammer and Sponge, Two Twenty four pounder Rammers and Sponges, Two eighteen Pounder Rammers and Sponges —
James McHenry
Samuel [undecipherable]
Mr John Davis
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of cannon powder & implements for use by the garrison of Fort Mifflin.
Date
12/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799122400001
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 Steele
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
cannon powder
priming powder
lint socks
rammer and spunges
sponges
thirty two pounder
twenty four pounder
eighteen pounder