Autograph Letter Signed

Erecting Winter Quarters

Rice discusses the preparations for erecting witner quarters at Oxford.

1799

10

14

Boston

Cited in Hamilton to Rice, 10/25/1799.

Cited document that was neither sent to nor from the War Office

Alexander Hamilton

Nathan Rice

John Nichols

recruits

Boston

Oxford

huts

quartering troops

ensuing winters

water

springs

chimneys

letters to Colonels Hunewell and Graves

fifteen acres for the purpose of erecting huts thereon and for quartering troops therein the two ensuing winters

using as many stones as are necessary for erecting chimneys

timber and wood growing thereon...for twenty six cents per acre

some glass will be necessary for windows to the officers' huts

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I have written already to [Hunewell and Graves] and requested them to march, without delay, their recruits to their winter destination; shall direct the Contractor [Ruggles] to agree for the necessary materials for the huts; it would be best to construct the huts in such a manner as that the soldiers of each company might be contained in two huts of 40 by 16 feet with a chimney in the center; a slight partition between the rooms will be sufficient; will require only twenty six huts for the non-commissioned officers and privates of a complete regiment;