Orders Received
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Orders Received
Description
Live oak use, none was taken without Hodgdon's orders.
short description
Orders Received
year created
1787
month created
11
day created
01
author
sent from location
Fort Mifflin
recipient
in collection
in image
notable person/group
Henry Knox
Samuel Hodgdon
workmen
purveyor
notable location
Fort Mifflin
purveyors office
notable item/thing
live oak
order
semicircular piece
gun carriages
sawed
joists of the platform
enclosed return
document number
1787110128001
page start
1
transcription
Fort Mifflin Oct 7th 1797
Sir
The order expressed in your favor of the 24th [undecipherable] and was forwarded to me through the purveyors office and received only this day. I will conform to it punctually. However no fault can be imputed to the Workman on the contrary to myself. I find it so difficult to fix the Semi Circular pieces upon which the gun carriages run, that I thought it an advantage to the United States, to make use of some of the live Oak for that purpose, as well as for getting a few saved for making the Joists of the Platform.
From the enclosed return which I forward to the purveyor you will see that none of the said live oak was taken without my order, and the quantity so inconsiderable relative to the great numbers of them, and the advantage resulting to this fort that I hope you will not deem it amiss, where my intention was only to promote the interest of the US. For the future every attention will be paid to them as I have hereunto done in their arrangement.
To the Honble
Secretary of War
Sir
The order expressed in your favor of the 24th [undecipherable] and was forwarded to me through the purveyors office and received only this day. I will conform to it punctually. However no fault can be imputed to the Workman on the contrary to myself. I find it so difficult to fix the Semi Circular pieces upon which the gun carriages run, that I thought it an advantage to the United States, to make use of some of the live Oak for that purpose, as well as for getting a few saved for making the Joists of the Platform.
From the enclosed return which I forward to the purveyor you will see that none of the said live oak was taken without my order, and the quantity so inconsiderable relative to the great numbers of them, and the advantage resulting to this fort that I hope you will not deem it amiss, where my intention was only to promote the interest of the US. For the future every attention will be paid to them as I have hereunto done in their arrangement.
To the Honble
Secretary of War
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | RHA03 (1 pages) | Collection: Henry Family Papers | B: 11, F: 8 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Samuel Hodgdon | Fort Mifflin | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Henry Knox | [unknown] | [n/a] |