Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies & Tools for Forts Wolcott and Adams
Item
Type
Document Signed
Title
Request for Issue of Assorted Military Supplies & Tools for Forts Wolcott and Adams
Description
Directs purchase of artillery implements & supplies, barrels, compasses, tools, a "fuze machine," camp supplies, lanterns, sieves, a mortar and pestle, rocket, portfire and bullet molds, raw minerals and metal, "three hundred pounds of junk," oil, paper, and rope for Forts Wolcott & Adams at Newport, RI. Urges that the supplies be obtained at or near Newport, if possible, and gives receipt instructions.
year created
1800
month created
12
day created
05
author
sent from location
Philadelphia
recipient
in collection
notable person/group
Isreal Whelan
Samuel Hodgdon
agent
notable location
Philadelphia
Fort Wolcott
Fort Adams
Newport, Rhode Island
notable item/thing
procure
deposit
supplies
cotton wick
spirits of wine
white wine vinegar
dressed sheep skins
spunge tacks
copper nails
barrels with copper hoops
copper pounder measures
copper scales
weights
brass quadrants with plumets
gunters scales
caliber compasses
coopers copper adze and driver
hammers
pinchers
rasps
laboratory knives
shoemakers knives
scissors
skeins of Hamburg line
salt boxes
drudging boxes
tin or copper funnels for shells
iron kettle for kit
iron ladles
fuze machine
bolts of duck
dark lanterns
lanterns
copper kettle
copper mealing pan
fine brass wire sieves
common brass wire sieves
gauze sieves with leather bottoms
brass mortar with pestle
eight ounce rocket mould with drifts and formers
potfire mould with drifts and formers
bullet moulds
hand bellows
tinmans tools
turners tools
molds
hides
rosin
pitch
beeswax
borax
pewter solder
brushes
tin
brass wire
iron wire
sheets of copper
pounds of junk
olive oil
linseed oil
white lead
lamp black
quires of sand paper
coils of rope
slow match
receipts
document number
1800120528501
page start
1
number of pages
4
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| In image | In source | Location in source | |
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| [view document] (4 pages) | XBD22 (4 pages) | Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) | "B:81" |
| [view document] (4 pages) | XBD22a (4 pages) | Collection: Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890. (RG92) | "B:81" |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Samuel Hodgdon | Philadelphia | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Israel Whelen | [unknown] | [n/a] |