Request for Issue of Clothing & Equipment for Fort Mifflin Troops (2)
Document 1800Directs issue of clothing and equipment to garrison of Fort Mifflin for three convicts.
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War Department April 2. 1800
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Stitt Commissarin of the [undecipherable] belonging to [undecipherable] three Suits of Infantry Clothing for three convicts at Fort Mifflin under sentence to hard labour the clothing to be as rough & coarse as their knapsack —
[undecipherable]
James [undecipherable]
To Mr John Harris
[Militia Office
April 2. 1800
Please this warrant for
to have a return for out
Year Mr [undecipherable]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of clothing and equipment to garrison of Fort Mifflin for three convicts.
Date
04/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800040200001
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 Steel
coxswain
convicts
Lieutenant Memminger
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Mifflin
Notable items
barge
suits of infantry clothing
sentence
hard labor
knapsacks