Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters to (Requisitions on) Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury Department Officials), June 1798-June 1824. (RG45)

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Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters to (Requisitions on) Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury Department Officials), June 1798-June 1824. (RG45)

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Sec Navy Requisitions on Sec Treas, RG45

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Request that frigate moulds be prepared for dispatch to shipyards Document
Note to Tench Coxe Document
Approval of Colonel James Hackett to be constructor Document
Appointment of Colonel James Hackett as frigate constructor at Portsmouth New Hampshire Document
Instructions from Secretary of War to Naval Agents, Superintendents, Constructors or Master Builders, Clerks of the Ship Yards Document
Transmittal of letter from Naval Agent in Philadelphia requesting money Document
Regarding casting of kentledge and request for another frigate model to be made Document
Assignment and instructions as Superintendent of frigate to be built at Philadelphia Document
Request to find a clerk for empoyment at Baltimore ship yard Document
Secretary of War Knox orders Captain Thomas Truxton to go to Baltimore to begin frigate construction Document
Henry Knox requests Captain Richard Dale go to Norfolk to begin frigate construction Document
Henry Knox orders Captain Silas Talbot to go to New York to superintend frigate construction Document
Henry Knox orders Captain James Seaver to go to Portsmouth New Hampshire to superintend frigate construction Document
Commencement of the Frigates with the Greatest Activity Document
Letter from Henry Knox to William Pennock on compensation; employment of Mr Morgan as constructor; procurement of live oak and cedar Document
Provisional appointment of John Morgan as naval constructor of 44 gun frigate to be constructed at Norfolk Virginia Document
Captain James Seaver Oath of Allegiance witnessed by John Lowell Document
John Stagg transmits letter from Robert Cochran at Charleston South Carolina to Secretary of War Henry Knox Document
Request that Captain Thomas Truxton be permitted purchase blocks Document
Regarding the beams of the frigates and the merits of oak and pine Document
Henry Knox decision on the issue of pine or oak for the frigates Document
Letter from Henry Knox to Tench Coxe on sizes of beams and the issue of pine or oak Document
Appointment of William Doughty as clerk of the ship yard at Philadelphia Document
William Doughty clerk of shipyard Philadelphia Oath of office witnessed by Hilary Baker Document
Joshua Humpreys' recommendations on when to cut timber for frigates Document