Request for Issue of Cartridge Materials & Raw Minerals to Fort Jay, NY
Document 1800Directs issue of cartridge materials and raw minerals to Fort Jay, NY.
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Intendant of Stores Office.
Philadelphia 8th. Dec 1800.
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to the order of the quarter master General, for transportation to Fort Jay New York, addressed to the Commanding Officer, the following supplies, agreeably to directions from the Secretary of War filed in this Office. Viz:
Five reams of cartidge Paper.
Two pieces of Flannel.
Two hundred Needles.
Ten pounds of Twine.
Ten pounds of Thread.
One hundred pounds of Salt Petre.
Fifty pounds of Sulphur and
Five pounds of Antimony.
I am, Sir
Your most obedient Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr John Harris
Public Storekeeper
Philadelphia
[Intendants Office
[undecipherable] Dec 8/1800
Sundries to be forw'd to Fort
Jay New York
[initials]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs issue of cartridge materials and raw minerals to Fort Jay, NY.
Date
12/05/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800120528401
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
Quartermaster General
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Fort Jay
New York
Notable items
transportation
supplies
reams of cartridge paper
flannel
needles
twine
thread
sale petre
saltpeter
sulphur
sulfur
antimony

