Request for Issue of Powder & Lead for Proving Gun Barrels

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[War office / March 3^d 1800 / Powder & lead &c / John Nicholson —] War Department March 3. 1800 Sir, Be pleased to deliver to John Nicholson two quarter casks of Gunpowder and fifty pounds of lead for prong gun Barrels — James McHenry Samuel [undecipherable: probable reading Hodgdon] M^r. John Harris

Type

Document Signed

Description

Directs issue of powder & lead for proving gun barrels.

Date

03/03/1800

Document number

1800030300001

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Note

2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.

Notable persons

John Harris

James McHenry

John Nicholson

Notable locations

War Office

Notable items

casks

gunpowder

lead

gun barrels