Request for delivery to quarter master general
Document 1800This letter from the Secretary at War directs Samuel Hodgdon to ship items indicated in an enclosed return to the Quartermaster General. The enclosed return is entitled as follows: "Return of ammunition and military stores necessary to the security and effect of the marine posts comprehending the tools, implements and materials requisite to fix and prepare the same for service regulated to battalions and proportioned to the weight of the several batteries now occupied by the troops on the sea board."
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Type
Letterbook
Description
This letter from the Secretary at War directs Samuel Hodgdon to ship items indicated in an enclosed return to the Quartermaster General. The enclosed return is entitled as follows:
"Return of ammunition and military stores necessary to the security and effect of the marine posts comprehending the tools, implements and materials requisite to fix and prepare the same for service regulated to battalions and proportioned to the weight of the several batteries now occupied by the troops on the sea board."
Date
11/19/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1800111900501
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Samuel Dexter
General Wilkinson
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Burbeck
Commandant
Notable locations
War Department
Fort Johnston
South Carolina
Georgia
Fort Johnson North Carolina
Fort McHenry
Maryland
Fort Mifflin
Delaware River
Fort Jay
New York
Fort Trumbull
Connecticut
Fort Wolcott
Fort Adams
Newport
Rhode Island
Fort Independence
Boston
Fort Sumner
Portland Maine
posts
Notable items
shot
ammunition
military stores
tools
implements