Request for Issue of Assorted Military Stores, Tools & Materials to Fort Johnson, SC

Item

Type

Document Signed

Title

Request for Issue of Assorted Military Stores, Tools & Materials to Fort Johnson, SC

Description

Directs issue of various military stores to Fort Johnson and its subsidiaries in South Carolina, including cannon ammunition, barrels, cannon implements, tools, camp equipment, cloth, sieves, hand bellows, hides, raw minerals & metals, rope, etc.

year created

1800

month created

11

day created

27

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
John Wilkins
Major Constant Freeman

notable location

Philadelphia
Fort Johnson
South Carolina

notable item/thing

articles
transportation
cannon ball twenty four pounders
cannon ball eighteen pounders
reams of cannon cartridge paper
reams of rocket and portfire paper
flannel
cotton wick
spirits of wine
white wine vinegar
dressed sheep skins
spunge tacks
copper nails
budge barrels with copper hoops
copper powder measures
copper scales with weights
powder horns with belts
gunners gimblets
gunners punches
gunners priming wires
bass quadrants with plumets
gunters scales
callibre compasses
caliber compasses
cooper's copper adzes and drives
hammers
drawing knives
pinchers
rasps
black sheaves
laboratory or shoemakers knives
oil stone
scissors
needles
skeins of hamburg line
skeins of tanned marline
salt or drudging boxes
flax and tow
tin or copper funnels for shells
iron kettles for kit
iron ladles
bolts of duck
copper kettles
copper mealing pans
brass wire sieves very fine
common brass wire sieves
gauze sieves with leather bottoms
brass mortars with pestles
rocket mould with drift and former
portfire mould with drift and former
mold
set of bullet moulds
hand bellows
tinmans tools
oil cloth
tanned hides
salt petre
saltpeter
sulphur
sulfur
antimony
rosin
pitch
beeswax
borax
pewter solder
brushes
tin
brass and iron wire
sheets of copper
junk for wads
olive oil
linseed oil
white lead
lamp black
sheet lead
whetstones
quires of sandpaper
coil of rope
slow match

document number

1800112728101

page start

1

number of pages

4

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Document instances

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[view document] (4 pages) XBC14 (4 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) Similia big list 4 Ft. Johnson
[view document] (4 pages) XBC14a (4 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) Similia big list 4 Ft. Johnson

Document names

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