Type

Letterbook

Title

Request for price of composition of pintle and braces for frigate

Description

Truxton is to find the price of composition of pintles and braces for the frigate, of metal, warranted of best quality.

year created

1796

month created

07

day created

01

secondary author

War Office

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

Captain Thomas Truxtun

sent to location

Baltimore

in collection

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)

in image

ZXA06

author note

No signature, from War Office

recipient note

Thomas Truxton

notable person/group

Captain Thomas Truxton
Superintendent
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Office
War Department

notable location

Baltimore
War Office
War Department
Philadelphia

notable item/thing

braces
frigate
pintles
metal
composition
USS Constellation

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1796070115055

page start

175
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