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− | April | + | April 19<sup>th</sup> 1799 |
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+ | Enclosed I transmit to you a letter from the Secretary of War accompanied with an order on M<sup>r</sup> Jn<sup>o</sup> Harris keeper of Military Stores for an hundred weight of ball, four quarter-casks of Powder and a proof-stamp. | ||
− | + | These articles I will thank you to receive and cause to be forwarded to M<sup>r</sup> Thomas Annely at Harper's Ferry, to be used by him in proving the barrels of musquets fabricating in the State of Maryland for the United States. | |
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− | + | I am respectfully Sir Your M<sup>o</sup> Ob<sup>t</sup> Servant Oliv<sup>r</sup> Wolcott | |
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− | + | Jn<sup>o</sup> Wilkins J<sup>r</sup> Esq<sup>r</sup> Quarter Master General. | |
− | + | (copy of letter rec<sup>d</sup> from the treasury department 'undecipherable' to Jas [Miller?] in the absence of John Wilkins J<sup>r</sup> Q<sup>r</sup> M Gen<sup>l</sup> | |
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