Request for Issue of Powder for Proving Cannon at Lane & Salter's Furnace
Document 1800McHenry requests that Harris deliver 200 pounds of cannon powder for the purpose of testing the guns cast at the Lane and Salters (?) furnace.
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[War Office
May 1r 1790
Circular to the dr [undecipherable: War?]
Elliott for the purpose
ofircuing cannon
N of]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
McHenry requests that Harris deliver 200 pounds of cannon powder for the purpose of testing the guns cast at the Lane and Salters (?) furnace.
Date
05/07/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1800050700002
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same. The latter collection contains duplicates of each image.
Notable persons
James McHenry
John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
Captain Joseph Elliott
United States
Notable locations
War Department
Lane and Salters (?) furnace
Notable items
order
two hundred [200] pounds of cannon powder
proving guns cast at Lane and Salters (?) furnace