Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies & Tools to Fort Norfolk, Virginia

Item

Type

Document Signed

Title

Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies & Tools to Fort Norfolk, Virginia

Description

Directs issue of assorted military supplies to Fort Norfolk, Virginia.

year created

1800

month created

12

day created

02

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

Philadelphia

in image

notable person/group

John Harris
Samuel Hodgdon
quartermaster general
Major Mahlon Ford
commanding officer

notable location

Philadelphia
Fort Norfolk
Virginia

notable item/thing

cannon ball twenty four pounder
cannon ball eighteen pounder
cannon ball twelve pounder
shells ten inch
shells eight inch
formers for thirty two, twenty four, eighteen, twelve, nine, and six pounders
cartridge paper
rocket paper
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
powder horns with belts
gunners gimblets
gunners punches
gunners priming wires
brass quadrant with plumet
Gunters scals
caliber compasses
coopers copper adze and driver
hammers
tenant saw
pinchers
rasps
block sheaves
laboratory or shoemakers knives
oil stone
scissors
needles
skeins Hamburg line
skeins tarred marline
salt or drudging boxes
flax and tow
tin or copper funnels for shells
iron kettles for kit
iron ladles
fuze machine
bolt of duck
dark and common lanterns
copper kettle
copper mealing pan
brass wire sieves
gauze sieves with leather bottoms
bass mortar with pestle
rocket mould with drifts and formers
portfire mould with former and drift
bullet moulds
molds
hand bellows
tinmans tools
turners tools
oil cloth
tanned hides
salt petre
saltpeter
sulfur
antimony
rosin
pitch
bees wax
pewter solder
brushes
box of tin
bass and iron wire
copper
junk for wads
olive oil
linseed oil
white lead
lamp black
sheet lead
whetstones
quires of sand paper
coils of rope

document number

1800120228101

page start

1

number of pages

4

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (4 pages) XBC18 (4 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) big supply list 4 delivery for Ft. Norfo
[view document] (4 pages) XBC18a (4 pages) Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) big supply list 4 delivery for Ft. Norfo

Document names

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