Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826 [Return of ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]

GLC02437.10019

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GLC#
GLC02437.10019-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
February 18, 1781
Author/Creator
Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826
Title
[Return of ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 16.8 cm, Width: 240 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Signed by I. Craig, Captain of Artillery to Henry Knox, Brigadier General of Artillery. Lists stores of shells, powder, cartridges, muskets, rifles, swords, etc. Note on verso of last fold states the return differs from the last due to a fire that broke out in the barracks making it necessary to remove the ordnance stores. States that "in the confusion some small loss was sustained." Fort McIntosh became the town of Beaver, Pennsylvania. Fort McIntosh was in Ohio. Document is one long narrow sheet folded six times.

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