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[Sam'l Hodgdon]
[2/6]
[See Return]
[page 8 to 12]
["]
War Department 19th Novr 1800
Sir
You will please to deliver to the Quarter Master General for transportation to the different posts designated in the within return, the Ammunition, Military Stores Tools Implements & Materials agreeably hereto.
I am Sir &c
[Enclosure]
A 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
[Table: columns are Regiments / Battalions | Posts | Barrels of Common Powder | Shot: 32 Pounder | 24 ditto | 18 ditto | 12 ditto | 4 ditto | 6 ditto]
1st 2d | Fort Johnston and Dependencies, South Carolina & Georgia | 8500 | " | 900 | 500 | 500 | " | "
1st 3d | Fort Johnson North Carolina | 2500 | " | " | 900 | 600 | " | "
1st 3d | Fort Norfolk Virginia | " | " | 300 | 1600 | 900 | 500 | "
| Fort Mc Henry Maryland | 1800 | " | 900 | " | " | 600 | "
1st 4th | Fort Mifflin on Delaware | 3000 | 2000 | 575 | " | 1000 | " | "
2d | Fort Jay Harbour New York | " | " | " | " | " | " | "
2d | Fort Trumbull Connecticut | " | 600 | " | " | " | " | "
2d | Fort Woolcott & Adams Harbour Newport | " | " | " | " | " | " | "
2d | Fort Independence Harbour of Boston | 3000 | " | " | " | " | " | "
2d | Fort Sumner Harbour of Portland | " | 300 | 328 | 300 | " | " | "
[Note:] This Return enclos'd to Sam'l Hodgdon in a Letter stated 19 Nov. 1800
[Continuation of table — City of Washington, 5 Nov. 1800]
[Table continues with additional columns for various types of ammunition and stores; quantities distributed across the listed posts, including the following items — many partially illegible:]
10 Black [undecipherable]
5 lbs [undecipherable]
ditto of [undecipherable] as 14, 18 [undecipherable]
Sheaves of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] per [undecipherable] Artillery
[undecipherable] Musket for [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for Double Musket
Stations of [undecipherable] 40 men [undecipherable]
Stations of white those cannon for 50
[undecipherable] stage [undecipherable] for [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Keeps
Bungs Rounds [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] from 4 [undecipherable] 3
Mountain Horns [undecipherable]
Summing Sundry Hundreds [undecipherable]
Bush Quaravants at [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Slanders [undecipherable]
Elder Campaign [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Coffee [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]
Harmony [undecipherable]
Harmony [undecipherable]
[Numeric values in columns include: 200, 150, 250, 150, 150, 60, and various other quantities distributed across the posts]
[Table continues with implements and materials:]
Drawing Knives
Pairs of Pincers
Dozens of Rasps assorted
Block Sheers
Laboratory Knives or Shoemakers [undecipherable]
Oil Stone
Pairs of Scissors
Needles
Shewy of [undecipherable] Lines
Do. of [undecipherable] Mankin
lbs of Twine
lbs of Thread
Salt or [undecipherable] Boxes
lbs of Glue & Tow
Ten or Copper Funnels for Shells
Iron Kettles for Kit [undecipherable]
Iron Saddles
Surge Machine
Bolts of Buck
Desk & Common Lanthorns
Copper Stills
Copper [undecipherable] Pots
This Estimate is calculated at less than fifty Rounds should be left without one hundred Rounds
[Table continues:]
Very fine Brush Vine Sieves
Common [ditto]
Gauze, Do. with Feather Bottoms
Brass Pestils & Mortars
89 Rocket Mortars with double [undecipherable]
Cartfuse [?] Borewith Drifts &c
Sets of Bullet Moulds
[undecipherable] Bellows
Bench and Hand Vices
Sets of Tinman's Tools
Sets of Gunnery Tools
Oil Cloths
Tanned Hides
Sets of Salt Petre
Sets of Sulphur
Sets of Antimony
Sets of Rosin
Sets of Pitch
Sets of Bees Wax
Sets of Borax [?]
lbs of Pewter Solder
Brushes
for Gun including the Stock on hand; when in propriety no price
sign'd Jas Wilkinson
[Table continues:]
Boxes of Tin
lbs of [undecipherable] Wire in [undecipherable]
Sheets of Copper
lbs of Stock for [undecipherable]
Gallons of Olive Oil
Bolts of [undecipherable] Oil
lbs of White Lead
lbs of Lamp Black
lbs of [undecipherable] [blotted] [undecipherable] strong
White strong [?]
Chests of Carpenters Tools
Quires of [undecipherable] paper
Coils of Rope from 1½ to 3 Inches [?]
[undecipherable] Complete
lbs of Slow Match
Pairs [undecipherable] yards
sign'd
H Burbeck Lieu. Colo.
Commandant