Request for Purchase of Liver Oil & Drum Heads
Document 1801Directs purchase of liver oil for preserving shoes, and drum heads for the Army.
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Intendant of Stores Office
Philadelphia 5th Jany 1801
Sir,
Be pleased to purchase and have deposited with Mr John Harris public Storekeeper in this City, Five Gallons of liver Oil, for the purpose of preserving certain Shoes, now in Store.
You will also please to provide, and deposit Thirty sets of Drum Heads, to meet certain orders in favor of the Army.
I am Sir,
Your most obt Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Israel Whelen Esqr
Purveyor.
[Jany 5. 1801
Israel Hodgdon [undecipherable]
requesting
5 Galls liver Oil &
30 sets Drum Heads]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs purchase of liver oil for preserving shoes, and drum heads for the Army.
Date
01/05/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1801010528001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Israel Whelan
Samuel Hodgdon
John Harris
public storekeeper
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Intendant of Stores Office
Notable items
liver oil
purchase
shoes
store
drum heads

