Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Samuel Hodgdon
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01613.03 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Letter signed Date: 7 August 1794 Pagination: 2 p. ; 32 x 21 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses transferring military supplies and purchasing procedures for ordnance needed for the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. Written from the War Department. Hodgdon was the Superintendent of Military Stores of the United States Army.
War department. August 7. 1794
Sir.
I have directed fifteen Brass six pounders [sic], with travelling [sic] carriages, and ten three pounders [sic] without carriages, to be transported from the Arsenal at Springfield to this city. The latter must be mounted as fast as possible, and implements for the whole provided, with all dispatch.
…[2] For such articles, as are not in the public stores here, or which may not be brought here with certainty in the course of thirty days, you will make estimates thereof, and present them to the Secretary of the Treasury; and requesting to know, how they are to be provided, informing him at the same time, that the measure is according to my directions -… .
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