Debts Due to Ironmasters
| dc.contributor.author | Hodgdon, Samuel | |
| dc.contributor.recipient | Morris, Robert | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Philadelphia; Philadelphia | |
| dc.creator | Hodgdon, Samuel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-30T20:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-30T20:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1784-01-03 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-08-30 | |
| dc.description | Discusses the possibility of discharging the debts due to ironmasters by allowing the ironmasters holding public stores of shot and shells to sell a portion of the shot and shells equal to their claims. Discusses the value of the shot and shells. Notes that demand for bar iron is high and it is a good time to sell. | |
| dc.description.author | Major; Commissary of Military Stores (1784); Commissioner of Commissary Stores and Assistant Quartermaster (1785-1790); Quartermaster General (1791-1792); Commissary of Military Stores (1792- ) | |
| dc.description.authorLocation | Philadelphia | |
| dc.description.phrases | "The stores by the late act of Congress being wholly under my direction, I conceive I am authorised, and shall be fully justified in disposing of such as may not be considered as essentially necessary to compose the Magazines intended to be kept on the Peace establishment, provided it can be done withnevident advantage." | |
| dc.description.recipient | Superintendent of Finance, 1783 to November 1784 | |
| dc.format | Author's Letterbook Copy | |
| dc.format.extent | 1 page | |
| dc.identifier | 34 | |
| dc.identifier.number | 1784010328001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8391 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.source.identifier | 537 | |
| dc.source.longName | Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) | |
| dc.source.repository | National Archives and Records Administration | |
| dc.source.shortName | Ltrs Sent, Samuel Hodgdon, RG93 | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Great sums; shells and shot; furnaces; the States; best judgement; claims; whole on hand; opinion; answer; act of Congress; magazines; peace establishment; bills; pounds; ton; balaces; account; demands; opinion; duty; matter; consideration; bar iron; demand; the present; most likely time; sell; bars; barrs | |
| dc.subject.personsGroups | Robert Morris; Samuel Hodgdon; Iron Masters; the public; Congress; Superintendent of Finance | |
| dc.title | Debts Due to Ironmasters | |
| dc.type | Image |