Request to select, sort, and deliver some timbers and planks to Boston and Portsmouth New Hampshire
Item
Type
Letterbook
Title
Request to select, sort, and deliver some timbers and planks to Boston and Portsmouth New Hampshire
Description
Request to Jacob Sheaffe to send some pieces of live oak and plank, whether oak or pine, to Boston and to send some live oak or pine as selected by Josiah Fox, for the frigate to be constructed at Portsmouth New Hampshire. Discusses the means of selection, sorting and valuation of timbers.
year created
1796
month created
09
day created
21
secondary author
sent from location
Philadelphia
recipient
in image
author note
No signature, from War Office
recipient note
Jacob Sheafe
notable person/group
Jacob Sheafe
naval agent
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Department
War Office
James Hackett
naval constructor
Josiah Fox
notable location
War Office
War Department
Philadelphia
Portsmouth New Hampshire
Boston
notable item/thing
frigate
frigate timbers
live oak
oak
pine
planks
notable idea/issue
frigate construction
Naval Act 1794
document number
1796092115155
page start
191
Item sets
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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:191. |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | James McHenry | Philadelphia | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Jacob Sheafe | [unknown] | [n/a] |