Requests Payment for the Fabrication of Cannons

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War Department, Dec.r 23. 1800 Sir, Please to furnish the Treasurer of the United States with Sum of Fifty thousand Dollars on account of the Fabrication of Cannon.

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War Department, Dec^r 23. 1800. Sir, Please to furnish the Treasurer of the United States with the sum of Fifty thousand Dollars on account of the Fabrication of Cannons.

Type

Letterbook

Description

Requests payment for the fabrication of cannons.

Date

12/23/1800

Author

Samuel Dexter

Recipient

Oliver Wolcott, Jr.

Sent from

War Department

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Letters Sent (Letterbooks) by the Secretary of War to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1800-1867. (RG203)

Document number

1800122300301

Page start

Notable persons

Oliver Wolcott

Samuel Dexter

Treasurer of the United States

Notable locations

War Department

Notable items

fabrication

cannon

payment