Request for Delivery of Muskets & Ammunition to East Coast Ports
Type
Document Signed
Title
Request for Delivery of Muskets & Ammunition to East Coast Ports
Description
Directs issue of 1,000 stand of arms & accoutrements and 25,000 musket cartridges each to the ports of Wilmington North Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, and Savannah Georgia.
Candidacy for DEII due to exceptionally large shipments of arms and ammunition, shortly before the official date given for the beginning of the Quasi-War, July 7 1798.
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.