Clothing & Accoutrements for Captain Fry's Company
Document 1800Harris is asked to deliver the designated clothing and accoutrements to Captain William McRea at Fort Mifflin for the use of Captain Fry's Company, currently under marching orders.
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[Intendants Office
Oct: 7. 1800
Sundries to be furn'd to [strikethrough: undecipherable]
for [undecipherable] to Major Mc Rea —
[undecipherable]]
Intendant of Stores Office.
Philadelphia 7th October 1800
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the order of Major William I. Mc Rea the following Clothing, accoutrements, &c for the use of Captain Fray's Company, at Fort Mifflin, under marching orders, agreeably to a requisition on file, dated the 5th instant, Viz:
Thirty three privates Shirts, Seventy two pairs of Socks, fifty wooden Canteens, Seven Knapsacks Sixty four Havresacks, three Swords, and Belts, Twelve shoulder Knots, thirty Cartouch Boxes, Thirty Bayonet Scabbards, thirty Bayonet Belts, and one Drum complete.
Your most obt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr Jno Harris
Public Storekeeper
Philadelphia
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Harris is asked to deliver the designated clothing and accoutrements to Captain William McRea at Fort Mifflin for the use of Captain Fry's Company, currently under marching orders.
Date
10/07/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Intendant of Stores Office, Philadelphia
Document number
1800100728001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
William McRea
Captain Fry
Notable locations
Intendant of Stores Office, Philadelphia
Notable items
requisition
private's shirts
pairs of socks
wooden canteens
knapsacks
haversacks
swords and belts
shoulder knots
cartouche boxes
bayonet scabbards
bayonet belts
drum complete


