Offer of clerk of shipyard duties at Baltimore or Boston

Item

Type

Letterbook

Title

Offer of clerk of shipyard duties at Baltimore or Boston

Description

Offer of position clerk of shipyard and duties at either Boston or Baltimore. Pay about $750 per year. Duties specified, and will require incessant attention.

year created

1794

month created

07

day created

21

author

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

in image

author note

Henry Knox

recipient note

John Hancock Bowes

notable person/group

John Hancock Bowes
Henry Knox
Clerk of ship yard

notable location

Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
War Department
War Office

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1794072100355

page start

43

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (1 pages) ZXA06 (315 pages) Collection: Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters to (Requisitions on) Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury Department Officials), June 1798-June 1824. (RG45) V:1, P:43

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Henry Knox Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient John Hancock Bowes [unknown] [n/a]