Request for Issue of Carpenter's Tools for Artificers at Schuylkill Laboratory

Item

Type

Document Signed

Title

Request for Issue of Carpenter's Tools for Artificers at Schuylkill Laboratory

Description

Directs issue of carpenter's tools for the use of artificers employed at Schuylkill laboratory. Two notes are appended -- one, presumably from Hodgdon, states that the purveyor has been directed to purchase the above supplies, and one presumably from Harris confirms that the items were delivered on November 25.

year created

1800

month created

11

day created

21

sent from location

Stores Office, Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
Colonel Lewis Tousard
Louis Tousard
artificers
purveyor

notable location

Philadelphia
Stores Office
United States Laboratory on Schuykill

notable item/thing

carpenters tools
requisition
double iron bench planes
single iron jack planes
hand saws
files
chisels
iron square
rule
turkey oil stone
shingle hatchets
claw hammers
pairs of pinchers
pairs of compasses
gimblets
broad axe
chalk line
chalk
narrow axes
chest lock

document number

1800110228001

page start

1

number of pages

2

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Document instances

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[view document] (2 pages) XBE11 (2 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) B; 819 F: Hodgdon, Samuel
[view document] (2 pages) XBE11a (2 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) B; 819 F: Hodgdon, Samuel

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Samuel Hodgdon Stores Office, Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient John Harris Philadelphia [n/a]