Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies & Tools for Posts at Detroit & Niagara
Document 1800Directs issue of supplies to complete the stock of military stores at Detroit, to wit: cannon implements, drum heads, raw minerals, paper, files, vises, wire, & crucibles. A postscript by Hodgdon asks that a duplicate of the above order be assembled and sent to Fort Niagara.
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[Intendants Office
Decr 1. 1800
Sundries to be forwarded to
Fort Detroit & Niagara]
Intendant of Stores Offce
Philadelphia 1st Decr 1800
Sir
In addition to the Stores ordered for the Post at Detroit, on the 20th of October last, you will be pleased to deliver to the order of the quarter master General the following, to complete the acquisition of the Secretary of War, filed in this Office Vizt: Eighty Sticks of Sulphur, Six pounds of cotton Wick, five ream of composition Paper, seventy five yards of coarse Linen; fifteen pounds of small hard twisted Twine, five pounds of Shoe Thread, two Large oil Cloths, six tanned Hides, fifteen tanned and curried Ship Skins, twenty five Drum Heads, two very fine Brass Wire Sieves, Five pounds of Allum, ten pounds of Antimony, twelve gallons of spirits of Wine, ten pounds of Bees Wax, fifteen pounds of Solder, one pound of Crocus Martis, ten pounds of flour Emery, ten pounds of rotten Stone, three pounds of Borax, three pounds of white Spelter, three pounds of yellow Spelter, four pounds of Aqua Fortis, thirty gallons of Olive Oil, five quires of sand Paper; two dozen of flat and square smoothing files assorted, two dozen of round and half round smoothing files assorted, two hand Vices, five fathoms of sixinch, eight fathoms of four inch, twenty five fathoms of one Inch Rope \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ also three pounds of brass Wire assorted; ten pounds of iron Wire assorted; two oil Stones, two nests of Crucibles assorted; and five thousand Tubes assorted. The whole to be addressed to the Commanding Officer.
I am Sir
Your most obt Servant
Samuel Hoddon
P.S. You will please to pack up and deliver a duplicate of the above order, to the order of the Quarter Master General, marked Commanding Officer Fort Niagara, who will transport them to that place by the way of Pittsburg
Samuel Hoddon
Mr John Harris
Public Storekeeper
Philadelphia
Type
Document
Description
Directs issue of supplies to complete the stock of military stores at Detroit, to wit: cannon implements, drum heads, raw minerals, paper, files, vises, wire, & crucibles. A postscript by Hodgdon asks that a duplicate of the above order be assembled and sent to Fort Niagara.
Date
12/01/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800120128101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
quartermaster general
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Detriot
Fort Niagara
Pittsburgh
Notable items
stores
post
requisition
portfire
cotton wick
composition paper
coarse linen
small hard twisted twine
shoe thread
oil cloths
tanned hides
tanned and curried sheep skins
drum heads
very fine bass wire sieves
allum
antimony
spirits of wine
beeswax
solder
crocus martis
flour emory
rotten stone
borax
while spelter
yellow spelter
aqua fortis
olive oil
quires of sand paper
flat and square smoothing files
round and half round smoothing files
hand vices
vises
rope
brass wire
iron wire
oil stones
crucibles
tubes
duplicate

