Request for Issue of Powder for Proving Gun Barrels
Document 1800Directs issue of powder for proving gun barrels.
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War Department January 2. 1800
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Nicholson or Order
One Quarter cask of Gun powder for proving Gun Barrels
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
[War Office Jany 2. 1800 to the Cash of Cous D— to the Q.P. John Nicholson for the purchase of powder for barrels [undecipherable]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of powder for proving gun barrels.
Date
01/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800010200101
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
gun powder
proving gun barrels