Adapting Carriages of Ammunition, Etc.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Adapting Carriages of Ammunition, Etc.
Description
Pickering lists a number of items and wonders whether they can be obtained and received at West Point by early April. The carriages of the wagons should be adapted to the kind of ammunition they will carry. Whatever is deposited at Springfield can be transported as soon as the ice breaks up on the Connecticut River. Colonel Rochefontaine choose to have the wagons completed at West Point but Pickering is certain that they can be obtained by contract at half the cost of making them at West Point.
short description
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year created
1795
month created
12
day created
20
author
sent from location
War Office
recipient
in collection
in image
note
Partially illegible.
notable person/group
Samuel Hodgdon
Timothy Pickering
Colonel Rochefontaine
notable location
War Office
Springfield
Connecticut River
West Point
notable item/thing
ice
articles mentioned
work necessary to complete
contract
wheels
return for all the ammunition and entrenchng tools
carriage of the waggons
dimension & contraction of the bodies
brass howitzers
ammunition waggons
French bodies
travelling forge
entrenching tools
brass four-pounders
document number
1795122000001
page start
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