Instructing Officers in the Taking of Distances & Altitudes, Etc.
Document 1800Wilkinson tells Hodgdon not to bother purchasing glasses if he has not already done so. He needs surveying equipment to teach the officers how to measure distances. Discusses other purchases and accounting matters. Wilkinson has lost his copy of the British regulations for their infantry.
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Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Wilkinson tells Hodgdon not to bother purchasing glasses if he has not already done so. He needs surveying equipment to teach the officers how to measure distances. Discusses other purchases and accounting matters. Wilkinson has lost his copy of the British regulations for their infantry.
Date
12/26/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Repository
Document number
1800122680001
Page start
1
Note
Partly illegible, document torn.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Wilkinson
officers
Secretary of War
British
infantry
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
glasses
circumferter
chain
theodolite
taking of distances
belts
elk skin
caribou skin
books
pay
British regulations
discipline
exercise
arms
cotton