Letterbook

Cannon Are Received & Indian Goods Sent Forward

Major Craig informs Samuel Hodgdon that cannons are received and indian goods are to be immediately sent forward. Craig also asks how various qualities of gun powder can be determined without opening the casks.

1798

02

16

Pittsburg

Philadelphia

Cited in Hodgdon to Craig, 02/23/1798.

Cited document addressed to the War Office

Samuel Hodgdon

Isaac Craig

Native Americans

Indians

Philadelphia

Pittsburg

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

Mississippi

gunpowder

casks

stores

barrels

the former covering invoices of stores now on the way together with a statement of James Hamilton's account to all of which every necessary attention shall be paid. Boats are already provided for transportation of store to Masac and the posts on the Mississippi, therefore Indian goods will be pushed forward without delay

one hundred barrels of powder were also delivered all in tolerable good order, but several of the casks without any marks by which the quality of the powder can be known. I have therefore to request you, if possible, to point out some means of knowing the quality of the contents without opening the casks

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