Request for Cooperation in Settling Contracts Made By Tench Francis
Document 1800Letter, discusses contracts for gunlocks and cartouch box blocks. Directs Whelen to settle these and all contracts made by the previous purveyor, Tench Francis.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, discusses contracts for gunlocks and cartouch box blocks. Directs Whelen to settle these and all contracts made by the previous purveyor, Tench Francis.
Date
07/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1800072200001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Israel Whelen
Samuel Dexter
George Harrison
Hodgdon
Secretary of War
War Department
purveyor
Tench Francis
Notable locations
War Department
Washington
London
Notable items
letter received this morning
on behalf of the agent for settling the accounts of the late purveyor, relative to an invoice of gunlocks imported
and a letter
relative to a contract for cartouch box blocks
proper that all contracts made under the authority of the department should on its part, be regularly complied with
apply for the necessary information
in whose possession the books and papers of the late purveyor
for that purpose.