Request to pay proceeds from sale of oak and and pine timber

Item

Type

Letterbook

Title

Request to pay proceeds from sale of oak and and pine timber

Description

Request to pay proceeds from sale of white oak and and pine timber to Samuel Meredith.

year created

1797

month created

05

day created

17

secondary author

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

in image

author note

No Signature, from War Office.

recipient note

Forman Cheeseman

notable person/group

Forman Cheeseman
Samuel Meredith
naval constructor
Secretary Treasury
Secretary of War
James McHenry
Oliver Wolcott

notable location

War Office
New York
Philadelphia
Treasury Department

notable item/thing

frigate
white oak timber
pine timber

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1797051715055

page start

231

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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:231

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author War Office Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Foreman Cheeseman [unknown] [n/a]