Seeks Assistance for Sick Sailors

Item

Type

Letterbook

Title

Seeks Assistance for Sick Sailors

Description

Reports leaving sick sailors at various ports. Doctors have been employed at great expense. Seeks assistance with arrangements for troops and surgeons to be stationed.

year created

1798

month created

09

day created

14

author

Benjamin Stoddert

sent from location

Navy Department

recipient

James McHenry

in 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)

in image

ZWV18
ZWV18a

notable person/group

James McHenry
Benjamin Stoddart
Secretary of War
sick sailors
doctors
surgeons

notable location

Navy Department
Newport, Rhode Island
Norfolk
New York
Boston
Philadelphia

notable item/thing

sickness
expense

document number

1798091440301

page start

1

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[view document] (1 pages) ZWV18 (1 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) P: 7
[view document] (1 pages) ZWV18a (1 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) P: 7

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Benjamin Stoddert Navy Department [n/a]
Recipient James McHenry [unknown] [n/a]