Description of Progress on Frigates United States & Constitution, And Their Equipment & Manning
Item
Type
Letterbook Copy
Title
Description of Progress on Frigates United States & Constitution, And Their Equipment & Manning
Description
Letter, describes progress on Frigates United States and Constitution; mentions disease; discusses equipping & manning Frigate; mentions Congress.
short description
Ltr, des progress on Frigates.
year created
1797
month created
10
day created
31
author
sent from location
War Office
recipient
in collection
in microfilm
notable person/group
James McHenry
Josiah Fox
Capt. [John] Barry
Capt. [Samuel] Nicholson
Gen. Jackson
Lewis
notable location
War Office
notable item/thing
frigate
notable phrase
Congress will meet in the course of two weeks
submit to your consideration whether the navy constructors and clerks of the yards where the frigates have been built are to be continued in pay and to what time
requests me to inform you that it will be necessary (provided the ship is to be immediately fitted for sea) for a master and other officers to be appointed and part of the crew to be shipped as soon as possible
riggers are still employed on such necessary jobbs as they can find to do unitll the yards are finished
sory to gind the blacksmith work is much behind hand by reason of the late contagious disease
United States has got all her masts aloft & the whole of her standing rigging over head and set up
returned with my family to the city
found your letter of the 15th instant requesting my attendance which I should have immediately complied had it reached my hands sooner
hope my absence will not be any ways injurious to the public business
for the past indulgence I shall attempt to render all the services in my power
last posts brought letters from Capt. Nicholson & Gen. Jackson communicating the pleasing intelligence of the Frigate Constitution being safely launched into the water
forwarded you by this post
document number
1797103140001
page start
1
number of pages
2
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (2 pages) | BBP02 (2 pages) | Collection: Josiah Fox Papers | R: 5, Series 1 |
| [view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Collection: Typed Versions | [unknown] |
| [view document] (2 pages) | BBQ08 (2 pages) | Collection: Josiah Fox Papers | [unknown] |
| [view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Microfilm: Josiah Fox Papers | [unknown] |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Josiah Fox | War Office | [n/a] |
| Recipient | James McHenry | [unknown] | [n/a] |