Inaccuracies in Your Account

Item

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Title

Inaccuracies in Your Account

Description

Letter, directs return of ordnance & stores; discusses inaccurate accounting.

year created

1798

month created

02

day created

12

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

in image

note

Cited in Gibbs to Hodgdon, 03/06/1798.

notable person/group

Caleb Gibbs
Samuel Hodgdon
Tillotson Clark

notable location

Philadelphia

notable item/thing

wooden bucket
spikes
brass howitzers
ordnance
casks
brandy

notable phrase

gallons
return
receipt accounts
difference
wooden bucket delivered
pounds spikes are charged as delivered
receipt acknowledges
return in the war office
brass howitzers under your care
species of ordnance
stores of any kind in charge
insert them in your next return
entering your receipts and deliveries
inaccuracies are discovered
casks Brandy

document number

1798021228055

page start

10

number of pages

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (560 pages) BJA01 (560 pages) Collection: Samuel Hodgdon Letterbook, Philadelphia, Pa., Arsenal, 1798-99. P:010

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Caleb Gibbs [unknown] [n/a]