Request for Musket Barrels
Document 1800Requests delivery of 50 musket barrels to Robert McCormick.
100%
⇣
Philad al Sept 22 1800 Sir Conformably to directions I have received from the Secretary of the Treasury I request you would be pleased to deliver to Mr Robert McCormick, fifty musket barrels in order to enable him to complete his contract with the Public for small arms that you will be pleased to charge to him & deduct the amount from his bill when produced. I am Sir Mr John Harris Keeper of Military Stores
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (a mix of sonnet and opus models). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
[60]
Sir,
Philada Sep 22d 1800
Conformably to directions I have received from the Secretary of the Treasury I request you would be pleased to deliver to Mr Robert McCormick, Fifty musket Barrels in order to enable him to complete his contract with the Public for small arms these you will be pleased to charge to him & deduct the amount from his Bill when produced.
I am Sir &c —
Mr John Harris
Keeper of Military Stores
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Requests delivery of 50 musket barrels to Robert McCormick.
Date
09/22/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800092290001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Robert McCormick
Keeper of military stores
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
musket barrels
small arms