Delivery of Uniforms for Troops at Niagara New York
Document 1800Letter, directs delivery of uniforms for troops at Niagara, New York.
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Intendant of Stores Office
Philadelphia 10th. October 1800
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to John Wilkins Esqr Quarter master General or order, the following Clothing for the use of the troops stationed at Niagara agreeably to a requisition from Samuel Vance acting Clothier General, dated 17th September 1800 (Viz:
Complete suits of clothing for eight Sergeants, eight Corporals, four Musicians, and one hundred and twenty Privates, belonging to the first Regiment of Infantry, and Complete suits of Clothing for one Sergeant two Corporals, and twenty five privates, belonging to the first Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers.
The whole to be addressed to the Quarter Master at Pittsburg, and to be by him held subject to the order of the said Samuel Vance.
Your most Obt Servant
[signature: Samuel Hodgdon]
Mr John Harris
[Docket, verso: Intendants Office / Oct 10. 1800 / Cloths to be forwarded to / Vance Actg Clothier Genl / to the Western Army / [undecipherable]]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, directs delivery of uniforms for troops at Niagara, New York.
Date
10/10/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800101028101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins
quartermaster general
Samuel Vance
clothier general
sergeants
corporals
musicians
privates
First Regiment of Infantry
First Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Western Army
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Niagara
Notable items
deliver
suits of clothing

