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Instructions for Storage of Received Shoes & Cartridge Boxes, and for Contracting Shoe Manufacturer

Directs that new cartouche boxes and shoes be stored. Authorizes Wadsworth to engage (contract) for the manufacture of additional pairs of shoes.

RE Army Recruiting

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting.

RE Recommendations for Army Appointments and Promotions

Routine applications for Army appointments and promotions.

One of the strongest positions by nature perhaps in America...

General Washington extols the virtues of the area surrounding Harpers Ferry as an excellent site for a winter encampment. It is also ideal for an arsenal and a foundry.

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Cited in McHenry to Wilkinson, 01/31/1799.

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Enclosed in Hodgdon to Hamilton, 10/1/1799.

Request for Powder and Lead

Request for lead and gunpowder to prove musket barrels.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

RE Recommendations for Army and Navy Appointments

Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments.

RE Individual Officers and Soldiers & Organization of Regiments

Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

Requests Payment to George Bell & Co.to Pay Troops in Tennessee

Requests payment for George Bell & Co. to pay regular troops in Tennessee under Colonel Butler.

Requests Payment for Tait & Stothart to Pay Troops

Requests payment to Tait & Stothart to pay troops in Tennessee under Colonel Butler.

Requests Payment for Thomas Butler to Pay Troops

Requests payment for Thomas Butler for payment of troops in Tennessee under Colonel Butler.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

Forwarding letters to and from Count Rumford

Forwards a copy of the correspondence between Rufus King and Count Rumford, in which Rumford politely declines the appointment for Inspector General of the Artillery.

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Enclosed in McHenry to Hamilton, 09/28/1799.

Correspondence with Count Rumford

Recounts conference with Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson).

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.