Delivery of Powder for Proving Cannon
Document 1800Letter, directs delivery of powder to Major Lewis Tousard, inspector of artillery, for proving cannon.
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[Docket: Intendants Office / Nov 7. 1800 / Powder to be [undecipherable] / Major Lewis Toussard / to prove Cannon [undecipherable]]
Sir, Intendant of Stores Office
Philadelphia 7th Novr. 1800.
Be pleased to deliver to Major Lewis Toussard Inspector of Artillery, or order, Three Barrels of Cannon Powder, (of not less than seventy yards range) For the purpose of proving ten, twenty four pounder iron Cannon, at the Eagle Furnace on Schuylkill.
[P.S. You will also deliver such implements as may be [undecipherable] for, which will be returned when the proof is made —]
Your most obt Servant
[signature]
Mr John Harris Lewis Toussard
Public Storekeeper
Philadelphia
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Letter, directs delivery of powder to Major Lewis Tousard, inspector of artillery, for proving cannon.
Date
11/07/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800110728101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
Major Lewis Tousard
Inspector of Artillery
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Eagle Furnace
Schuylkill
Notable items
deliver
Inspector of Artillery
cannon powder
twenty-four pounder iron cannon
implements

