Request to deliver copper bolts to Joseph and Samuel Sterret, naval agents at Baltimore

Item

Type

Letterbook

Title

Request to deliver copper bolts to Joseph and Samuel Sterret, naval agents at Baltimore

Description

Norfolk Naval Agent William Pennock is asked to deliver 1000 feet of copper bolts of 1 1/3 inch diameter to Baltimore naval agents Samuel and Joseph Sterret for the use of the frigate Constellation.

year created

1797

month created

03

day created

09

secondary author

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

Norfolk

in image

author note

No signature, from War Office

recipient note

William Pennock

notable person/group

William Pennock
naval agents
War Department
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Joseph Sterret
Samuel Sterret

notable location

Norfolk
War Office
Baltimore
Philadelphia

notable item/thing

frigate
USS Constellation
copper bolts
receipts

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1797030915055

page start

222

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[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:222

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author War Office Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient William Pennock Norfolk [n/a]