Request for Issue of Assorted Ammunition & Military Supplies to Fort Sumner
Document 1800Directs issue of supplies to Fort Sumner in Portland, Mass. (now Maine), including: cannon ammunition, supplies for making cartridges, raw minerals, a pair of steelyards, and slowmatch.
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[Endorsement on reverse:]
Intendants Office
[undecipherable] 1800
Sundries to be forwd
to Fort Sumner
Portland
No
Intendant of Stores Office
Philadelphia 3d Dec: 1800
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the order of, the quarter master General for transportation to Fort Sumner at Portland in the State of Massachusets, to the address of the commanding Officer, the following supplies for the use of the Garrison, agreeably to directions from the Secretary of War, filed in this Office Viz:
Three hundred cannon ball eighteen pounder.
Three hundred cannon ball twelve pounder.
Two reams of Cartridge Paper.
Two powder Horns with bells.
One hundred Needles.
Five pounds of Twine.
Five pounds of Thread.
Fifty pounds of salt Petre.
Twenty pounds of Sulphur.
Three pounds of Antimony.
Forty pounds of sheet Lead.
Seventy pounds of Slow Match. &
One pair of Steelyards.
I am Sir,
Your most obt Servant
[undecipherable: probable reading Samuel Hodgdon]
Mr John Harris
Public Storekeeper
Philadelphia
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of supplies to Fort Sumner in Portland, Mass. (now Maine), including: cannon ammunition, supplies for making cartridges, raw minerals, a pair of steelyards, and slowmatch.
Date
12/03/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800120328201
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
quartermaster General
commanding officer
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Fort Sumner
Portland
Massachusetts
Notable items
sundries
transportation
supplies
cannon ball eighteen pounder
cannon ball twelve pounder
cartridge paper
powder horns with belts
needles
twine
thread
salt petre
saltpeter
sulphur
sulfur
antimony
slow match
pair of steelyards

