General Return of Quartermaster's Stores
Document 1795Return of all the Public Property belonging to the Quarter Master's Department at West Point taken for May 1795.
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Major [George?] [Cummings?]
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c.May 1795 —
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[oval stamp: 125]
Return of all the Public Property belonging to the Quarter Masters Department at West Point taken for May 1795.
[Column headers: Not Places | Fit for Service | [undecipherable] | Wanting Repairs | In use | [Unfit for Service] | Total]
Riding Saddles — ✓5 — 5
Hungarian D° — ✓22 18 — 40 — 50
Waggons & Cart D° — ✓61 61 — 69 — 131
Saddle Trees — ✓40 — 40
Pairs of holders — ✓47 — 47
Blind Bridles — ✓1093 — 43 — 1136
Lé D° Bites — ✓162 — 155
D° D° Rings — ✓228 — 228
Collars — ✓169 199 — ✓122 — 1106
Hames — ✓2532 — 66 — 2608
Back & Belly [Bands?] — ✓58 — 41 — 99
[Breeching?] Bands — ✓457 80 — 539
[Breastplate?] D° — ✓8 — 8
[Breastplate?] D° — ✓23 — 9 — 32
[Crouppers?] — ✓29 — 29
[undecipherable: Fell past Trace Plunge?] — ✓10 — 10
Hope belly [James?] — ✓67 — 67
[Snaffle?] bridles — ✓63 — 4 80 — 13
[Bridle?] bitts — ✓20 — 20
Pairs Spurs — ✓13 — 13
Collar Rings — ✓152 — 152
Cedar Locks — ✓157 — 157
Pack Saddles — ✓58 142 — 18 — 216
D° D° Straps — ✓407 — 407
Pair Stirrups — ✓21 — 21
Stirrup [Irons?] — ✓102 — 102
Curry Combs — ✓46 — 46
Saddle Rings — ✓24 — 24
Harness D° — ✓142 — 142
Brass Saddle Buckles — ✓395° — 395°
Medal D° D° — ✓1115° — 1115°
Bristle [Cow?] — ✓46 — 46
Painted canvas Saddle Clothes — ✓58 — ✓2 — 58
Pairs of [Military?] trace Chains — ✓682 — 682
Pairs Trace Chains — ✓228 — 228
Breast D° — ✓316 — 326
Tongue D° — ✓35° — 35°
Lock D° — ✓19 — 19
Stay D° — ✓5 — 4
[Screech?] D° — ✓20 3 — 1 — 24
Long D° — ✓10 — 10
Halters D° — ✓116 — 116
Ox D° — ✓89 2 — 91
Pieces of [Old?] Chains — ✓32 — 32
Double Whipple Trees — ✓76 — ✓27 — 103
Single D° D° — ✓199 — ✓14 — 213
Whipple tree hooks — ✓6 — 6
Carriage Spokes — ✓407 — 401
Marking Irons — ✓9 — ✓1 — 10
Dove tail hinges — ✓11 — 11
Chest D° — ✓20 — 20
Pairs of Sheep Shears — ✓3 — 3
Ferriers Knives — ✓2 — 2
Washers — ✓17 — 17
Door Locks — ✓12 — 12
Trunk & Chest D° — ✓12 — 12
Pairs of Callipers — ✓1 — 1
Marlins Spikes — ✓4 — 4
Chalks Lines — ✓21 — 21
Paint Brushes — ✓15 — ✓4 — 19
Small Gimblets — ✓12 — 12
Braf Nails — ✓111 — 111
Large fish hooks — ✓103 — 103
Shoemakers Knives — ✓10 — 10
D° Tacks — ✓198 — 198
Rigging Awls — ✓44 — 44
Sail Needles — ✓163 — 163
Palms — ✓72 — 72
Pounds of [Patchwork?] — ✓229 — 292
Inkpots of Ink powder — ✓27 — 27
Books & Eyes — ✓220 — 229
Blank Books — ✓2 — 2
Sheets of Sand paper — ✓57 — 57
Leaves of blank [Returns?] — ✓68 — 68
D° Large writing paper — ✓2 — 2
[Haversacks?] — ✓600 — ✓178 — 678
Linens D° — ✓394 — 394
D° [Inferior?] Quality — ✓810 — 890
D° [Haversacks?] — ✓193 — 193
D° [Inferior?] Quality — ✓50 — ✓37 — 87
Sand [Bags?] — ✓2958 — ✓5158 — 10700
Wooden Bowls — ✓19 — 19
D° Plates — ✓35 — 38
Sticks of Common [Ankers?] — ✓3 — 2
Large [Gammens?] — ✓2 — 2
Melting bolls — ✓3 — 3
D° Ladles — ✓1 — 1
Plates for Gun Blocks — ✓17 — 12
Cast Iron Stoves — ✓7 — 7
Stove plates — ✓115° — 115°
[Cannons?] Stoves — ✓1 — 1
Pairs Cast [Andirons?] — ✓23 — 23
Stone hammers — ✓2 — ✓48 — 20
D° Mauls — ✓3 2 — ✓1 — 7
Masons Trowels — ✓45° 2 — ✓3 — 56
[Nihil?] & [hag?] Stone — ✓33 — ✓178 — 106
Grindo [Roners?] — ✓51 — ✓45 4 — 59
Grinder Stone [Crancks?] — ✓2 2 — 5
Painters Stone Mueller — ✓1 — 1
Pounds of Spanish brown — ✓257 — 257
D° of Yellow [Ocher?] — ✓22 — 22
Hand Saws — ✓10 — ✓7 — 17
Woods D° — ✓20 — ✓2 — 22
Key hole D° — ✓9 — ✓6 — 15°
Frows — ✓460 9 — 469
Grubing hoes — ✓397 52 — 449
[Picks?] — ✓956 324 — ✓69 — 1349
Spades — 1 ✓248 — ✓64 — 312
Shovels — ✓247 267 — ✓390 — 904
Spoke Sheaves — 3 4 — 4
D° D° Irons — ✓10 — 10
Hollow Sheaves — ✓83 — 83
Breastbit Irons — ✓683 — 683
Small hatchetts — ✓5° — 5°
Coopers Axes — ✓7 4 — ✓2 — 13
D° Adzes — ✓4 — 5° — 9
D° [Crows?] — ✓1 — 1
D° Truss hoops — ✓12 — 12
Pairs pincers — ✓7 25 1 — 33
Blacksmiths tools a[s] found — 59 — 59
Tinmans D° D° — ✓35° — 35°
Turners D° D° — ✓31 — 31
Sadlers D° D° — ✓50 — 50
Nailers Stakes — ✓18 — ✓1 — 19
Pairs Blacksmiths bellows — ✓5 — 5
D° D° Tongs — ✓34 — 34
Blacksmiths Shovels — ✓6 — 6
D° Sledges — ✓7 — 7
Blacksmiths hand hammers — ✓7 — 7
D° Floats — ✓1 — 1
Anvils — ✓5° 3 — 8
Vices — ✓7 1 — ✓1 — 9
Swage & Swills — ✓1 — 1
D° hammers — ✓2 — 2
Neck Irons — ✓3 — 3
Mandrill — ✓3 — ✓2 — 5
Bellows plates — ✓15° — 15°
Butterflies — ✓48 — 18 — 42
[Shoeing?] Hammers — ✓1 — 1
Caulking [Irons?] — ✓18 — ✓4 — 22
Ship Scrapers — ✓71 — 71
Cutting [Tools?] — 1 — 1
[Ft.?] Knives — ✓26 28° — ✓6 — 37
Face Irons for cutting [tones?] — ✓24 — 24
Keys & bolts for Gun Carriages — ✓109 — 109
Pitch Forks — ✓50 — 50
[Grasp?] [Ladles?] — ✓52 — 52
Carpenters [Snecks?] — ✓5 — 5
D° Gages — ✓22 — ✓12 — 24
D° Squares — ✓3 — 3
Irons D° — ✓1 3 — ✓2 — [undecipherable]
[Anvils?] D° — ✓2 — 2
[Rung?] Bores — ✓2 — 2
Lathe D° — ✓2 — ✓1 — 1
Sand [Rifles?] — ✓2 — ✓3 — 1
Pounds of Brimstone — ✓179 — 179
D° of 10 & 12 Inch Bricks — ✓103 — 102
D° of 5 & 8 Inch D° — ✓78 — 78
D° of boat Nails — ✓63 — 63
D° of small Staples — ✓37 — 37
D° of [wire?] — ✓11 — 11
Brass Apothecary [Mortar?] — ✓1 — 1
Block hooks & Thimbles — ✓21 — 21
Clevises — ✓3 — 3
Bell hooks — ✓125 — ✓25° — 150
Iron Dogs [& Hitchee for new Copy?] — ✓61 — 69
Pairs Large Scales — ✓8 — 1
Pairs Small D° — ✓21 3 — [undecipherable]
Large Scale beams — ✓3 2 — 5
Pairs Large [Bulyards?] — ✓1 — 1
Scale [bottom?] — ✓5 — 5
[Mizzens?] Augers — ✓145° — 145°
D° hammers — ✓7 19 — 8
D° Scrapers — ✓4 — 4
D° [spinning?] wires — ✓2 — 2
Iron pots — ✓2 — 2
[Lanthoms?] — ✓5 5 — [undecipherable]
[Shearing?] Trumpets — ✓1 — 1
Spy Glasses — ✓3 — 3
Thump boxes — ✓27 — 27
Flagg Staff for [Bateaux?] — ✓12 — 12
Wooden Canteens — ✓1424 — ✓5184 — 6608
Loops for D° — ✓5723 — 5723
Camp Billits — 1 — ✓311 — 311
Leather [Pot?] Manteaus — ✓61 38 — ✓29 — 128
Loops for D° — ✓140 — 140
[Coats?] for D° — ✓168 — 168
Iron branches for Chimneys — ✓1 — 1
Pairs large hinges — ✓9 — 9
D° D° hooks for [Sills?] — ✓9 — 9
Pairs small hinges — ✓8 — 8
Crow bars — ✓17 — 17
[Hand?] Spikes — ✓49 — 49
Shovel handles — ✓197 — 197
Sides of [Seal?] Leather — 1 — ✓9 — 9
Grain [Riddles?] — 1 — ✓6 — 6
Lathing hammers — ✓5 — 5
Boat hooks — ✓5 — 5
Screw corks — ✓79 — 79
Shroud blocks — 10 — 10
[Nun?] straight D° — 102 — 4 — 106
Dead Eyes — 38 — 38
Weight of bar Iron — ✓224 — ✓224
D° of [old?] Irons — 12 1 18 — 12 1 18
D° of [traveling?] forge plates — 4 1 19 — 4 1 19
D° of old [tackle?] rope — ✓4 1 9 — 4 1 9
Pounds of Twine — ✓33 — 33
Iron 56 pounds Weights — ✓14 — 14
Ox Shoes — ✓660 — ✓68 — 668
Ox Yokes — ✓59 — 59
[Rings?] & Staples for D° — ✓5 — 5
[Goose Necks?] for Sleighs — ✓20 — 20
D° D° for Ox Carts — ✓5 — 5°
Wooden Axeltrees — ✓2 — 2
[Linch?] Pins — ✓4 — 4
Jack Screws — ✓18 27 — 3 — 46
Tar Buckets — ✓824 — 824
Branding Irons — ✓33 — 33
[Fellers?] for [hopling?] [horses?] — ✓12 — ✓1 — 13
Cart [Waggons?] of Gun Carriage boxes — ✓3,400 — ✓20 — 3420
Clouds — ✓234 — 234
Nub [hoops?] — ✓14 — 14
+ [Casks?] of [Turpentine?] Con[taining?] — ✓20 — 20
[Boxes?] of [Turpentine?] [Containing?] — ✓3 — 3
Broad Axes — ✓7 — 12 — ✓29 — 41
Narrow D° — ✓196 36 — 232
Falling D° — ✓ — 824 — 824
Scythes — ✓97 — ✓72 — 169
D° Sneaths — ✓30 — 30
D° Nibs — ✓198 — 198
Nib handles — ✓36 — 36
Heel Rings — ✓300 — 300
Steel & Nib Wedges — ✓200 — 200
Drawing Knives — ✓21 6 — ✓9 — 36
Steels — ✓15 — 15
+ The Turr in these Casks is of a bad Quality.
[Pleck?] Forks — ✓2 1 — 3
Marquees — ✓3 — 3
Horsemens Tents — ✓1 — 1
Wall D° — ✓6 — 6
Commons D° — ✓6 — 6
Hospital D° — ✓2 — 2
Marquee poles — ✓50 — 5 — 5b
D° D° balls — ✓29 — 29
D° D° hooks — ✓89 — 89
D° D° rings — ✓328 — 328
Marquee buttons — ✓99° — 99
Tent Cloth — ✓120 — ✓9 — 29
Tent pole Rings — ✓2400 — 2400
[Screw?] Taps — ✓1 — 1
D° plates — ✓8 4 — ✓2 — 14
[Avood?] Screws — ✓1448 — 1448
Chisels [and] [partins?] — ✓186 — ✓5 76 — 267
[Gonges?] D° — ✓10 — ✓7 40 — 11
Augers D° — ✓199 — ✓6 110 — 309
Plains D° — ✓24 4 — ✓23 28 — [undecipherable]
Plains Irons — ✓689 — 889
Counter Stocks — ✓4 — 4
[Augers?] for [Inspecting?] floor — ✓4 — 4
Whip Saws — ✓20 — ✓5 — 25
D° D° handles — ✓26 3 — 29
[Crosscut?] Saws — ✓134 28 — ✓2 — 57
D° D° handles — ✓67 — 67
Iron 28 pounds Weights — ✓4 — 4
D° 14 D° D° — ✓5° — 5°
Leaders 28 D° D° — ✓1 — 1
[Bitts?] 14 D° D° — ✓2 — 2
Pounds small [Craft?] D° — ✓9¾ — 9¾
Dozens of Metal buttons — ✓24 — 24
Hay Rakes — ✓21 — ✓27 — 48
Medicine Chests — ✓4 — 4
Barges — ✓1 — 1
Small framed Boats — ✓3 — 3
Scows — 1 ✓5 — ✓1 1 — 2
Oars — ✓19 — 40 — 29
[Beating?] Engine — ✓1 — ✓1 — 1
Buildings — 38 — 38
Nailers Bellows — ✓1 — 1
Horse Recd from Ensn Danl [Bissell?] last Samo — ✓3 — ✓5 — 8
The above Return was made out by Mr [Frederick?] [King?] from an actual inspection he made of the articles.
Errors Excepted.
West Point, June 1. 1795.
G. [Fleming?] Ao Do Ao
[Ordnance?] [Department?]
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Return of all the Public Property belonging to the Quarter Master's Department at West Point taken for May 1795.
Date
05/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1795059991702
Page start
1
Note
Based on content, recipient is believed to be Samuel Hodgdon.
Notable persons
Major George Fleming
Quarter Masters Department
Samuel Hodgdon
Ensign Daniel Bissell
Frederick Sprig
Notable locations
West Point
Notable items
return
public property
wanting repairs
riding saddles
Hungarian saddles
wagon and cart saddles
saddle trees
pairs of holsters
blind bridles
bridle bits
bridle rings
collars
Hames
back bands
belly bands
breech bands
iron back bands
breast bands
cruppers
tack
pack saddle harness
rope belly band
snaffle bridles
spurs
collar rings
colar hooks
pack saddles
pack saddle straps
stirrups
stirrup irons
curry combs
saddle rings
harness rings
brass saddle buckles
metal saddle buckles
bridle bosses
painted canvas saddle cloths
artillery trace chains
trace chains
breast chains
tongue chains
lock chains
stay chains
streech chains
lug chains
halter chains
ox chains
old chains
double whipple trees
single whipple trees
whipple tree books
carriage spokes
marking irons
dovetail hinges
chest hinges
sheep shears
currier knives
washers
door locks
trunk and chest locks
calipers
callipers
marlinspikes
chalk lines
small gimbletts
gimlets
brass nails
large fish hooks
shoemakers knives
shoemakers tacks
pegging awls
sail needles
palms
girt web
ink powder
hooks
eyes
blank books
sandpaper
quires
blank returns
large writing paper
hair knapsacks
linen knapsacks
linen knapsacks of inferior quality
linen haversacks
linen haversacks of inferior quality
sandbags
wooden bowls
wooden plates
lignum vitae
gridirons
melting pots
melting ladles
plates for gin blocks
cast iron stoves
stove plates
cannon stoves
cast andirons
hammers
mauls
masons trowels
whet stones
rag stones
grind stones
grind stone cranks
painters tone muller
spanish brown
yellow ocher
yellow ocher
hand saws
wood saws
keyhole saws
frows
grubbing hoes
picks
spades
shovels
spoke sheaves
spoke sheave irons
hollow sheaves
breast bit irons
coopers axes
coopers adzes
coopers crows
coopers truss hoops
pincers
blacksmiths tools
tinmans tools
turners tools
saddlers tools
nailors stakes
bellows
tongs
blacksmith sledges
hand hammers
floats
anvils
vices
vises
beek irons
mandrills
bellows plates
buttresses
shoeing hammers
caulking irons
ship scrapers
cutting boxes
cutting knives
face irons
keys
bolts
pitchforks
sickles
gauges
squares
bevels
bung boxes
tap boxes
sand rifels
brimstone
spikes
nails
boat nails
staples
wire
apothecary mortar
block hooks and thimbles
clevesses
brill hooks
iron dogs
scales
steelyards
scale beams
scale bottoms
miners augers
miners hammers
miners priming wires
miners scrapers
iron pots
lanthorns
lanterns
speaking trumpes
spyglasses
spy glasses
pump boxes
flag staffs
wooden canteens
camp kettle
leather portmanteaus
loops
rods
iron crancks for chimneys
hinges
hooks
crowbars
shovel handles
hand spikes
sole leather
soal leather
grain riddles
lathering hammers
coat hooks
corks
blocks
bar iron
traveling forge plates
tackle rope
twine
weights
ox shoes
ox yokes
staples
goosenecks
sleighs
ox carts
wooden axletrees
linchpins
jack screws
tar buckets
fetters
horses
cart wagons
gun carriage boxes
clouts
hub hoops
casks of tin
broad axes
narrow aces
falling aces
scythes
heel rings
sneads
nibs
drawing knives
steels
flesh forks
marques
horsemens tents
wall tents
common tents
hospital tents
tents
marque poles
marque pole balls
marque pole hooks
marque pole rings
marque buttons
tent poles
tent pole rings
screw taps
screw plates
wood screws
chisels gouges
augers
planes
plains
plain irons
jointer stockers
flour
whip saws
crosscut saws
handles
iron weights
lead weights
brass weights
metal buttons
hay rakes
medicine chests
barges
boats
scows
oars
water engine
buildings
nailors bellows

