Request to send timbers to Philadelphia

Item

Type

Letterbook

Title

Request to send timbers to Philadelphia

Description

Blagge is asked request that Foreman Cheeseman, naval constructor, send top timbers and other timbers to Philadelphia.

year created

1796

month created

05

day created

20

secondary author

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

New York

in image

author note

No signature, from War Office.

recipient note

John Blagge

notable person/group

John Blagge
Foreman Cheeseman
naval constructor
naval agent
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Office
Navy

notable location

New York
War Office
Philadelphia

notable item/thing

timbers
top timbers

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1796052015055

page start

168

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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:168.

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author James McHenry Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient John Blagge New York [n/a]