Autograph Letter Signed

Request for Issue of Arms, Accoutrements & Equipment, as a Company Exchanges Previous Armament

Directs issue of arms, accoutrements & equipment; informs Harris that the officer of the company receiving these supplies will submit some other muskets, etc. to be put back into military stores.

1799

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2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.

James McHenry; Samuel Hodgdon.

John Harris

multiple

James McHenry

Samuel Hodgdon

War Department

military stores

arms

accoutrements

equipment

supplies

materials

muskets

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War Office
March 11 1799
Arms & Accoutrements
to be Dld Capt Matthias
Barton of the Militia
War department March 11. 1799
Sir
Be pleased to deliver to Captain Matthias Barton Sixty eight stands of Arms and Accoutrements, manufactured in the United States, also Six Serjeant Swords and Belts, and sixty eight Knapsacks taking his receipt to be accounted for or returned at the expiration of the engagement or other discharge of his Company pursuant to the third Section of the supplement to the Act authorizing the President to raise a Provincial Army.
Captain Barton will deliver you a few Muskets Bayonets and Cartouch Boxes which you will be pleased to receive into the public stores
James McHenry
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr. John Harris