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...therefore gave them an order for fifty two |Barrels powder, (the quantity they say they lent...
...St. John’s. He brought but about 5. barrels of powder at first and no cartridge paper....
...but of pork not more than six hundred Barrels, and fresh Beef extremely difficult to be...
...invoice of this date says that the chest and barrel that he sent to New London contained 14,...
...forward with all convenient speed, five Hundred Barrels to be stored at Norwich in Connecticut...
furnished them with eight Barrels powder, two thousand pounds of musquet ball, and two...
...will take one hundred Carriages, each carrying four Barrels of pork or Flour (and they can...
368General Orders, 26 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
...that he must stop his Business if his Barrels are not return’d. The General therefore...
...) and was taken; She had seventeen hundred Barrels of Beef and Pork and four hundred Casks...
..., each Cask equal in Size to a Beef half Barrel 5000 Pigs of Lead, a considerable Quantity of...
...seventh of July to “forward from three to four hundred Barrels of powder to Norwich,”
...Ball 1000 Stand of Arms, with Bayonets—1 Barrel Flints & 193 whole Barrells of Gun powder—...
...craft and Before Night got out Twelve Hundred Barrels of powder. I procured a guard of...
...day I have forwarded one hundred Barrels of powder for Norwich, there to be deposited...
...from (a whaler I believe) that there was 200 barrels of powder cannon &c. at [New] ...barrels...
...Stanwix, shows that on 13 Aug. there were “180 Barrels of Pork[,] 226 Barrels of Flour & 23...
—We shall recover some Swivel Guns, Gun Barrels, Shot &c. out of the Wreck
and Apron, Two Cutlasses, Two Gun Barrels, One Crow bar and 4 Gapp[l]in[g]...
...eat up all the Cattle and are now killing & barrelling up all the Horses they meet with.barrelled
.... by the side of them. We have spaird 700 Barrels of powder to N.Y. We have 600 left...
...pounds, a sheep for ten dollars. They were barreling up all the horse flesh they could get....
barrels of pork, 226 barrels of flour, 23 head of cattle, and 467 soldiers...
...s. is now selling 56 to 60 s. per barrel and no quantity on hand, sensible of the consequence...
...thousand fears for your Health. How is poor Mr. Barrel, is he gone, or does he yet live?
Poor Barrel I see by the paper is dead. So is...
...every engine at work to send down every barrel you can procure, towards the army always...
...removed he was obliged to leave 80 or 90 barrels of provisions of all Kinds for want of Wagons...
388General Orders, 27 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
...wagons under Sickles’s care and found on them a barrel of leaf tobacco and a barrel of rum...
...General Mifling by Eight Wagons for the Continiltan Armey—3 Barrels of Cannon Powder[,] 9 Half
...’s ferry there is Eight or nine hundred Barrels brought from the other side. I have...
...Necessaris would have failed us. We had not one Barrel of flower on this Ground 4 days since....
...articles, viz. 72 chests of arms, 311 barrels of gunpowder, 338 pigs of lead, 9... ...barrels...
...our Men, but were obliged to leave some hundred Barrels of Flour, most of our Cannon and a...
...Tappan Landing, that there were almost five hundred barrels of flour at that place and another...
...proper persons for the delivery of 10,000 barrels of flour on James, York, Rappahannock,...
...“deux milliers merein,” or around 2,000 barrel staves; Schweighauser’s letter of the 23rd...
397Memorandum Books, 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
...Barth. Kindred order on Mr. Cox, for 5. barrels corn @ market price & 120. bushels wheat @...
...to arrange for the delivery of 10,000 barrels of flour to the James, York, Rappahannock...
...at one place; and at another upwards of Twenty Barrels of Beef and Pork; Thirty odd Hams &c....
...New-Town in this State, about five hundred Barrels of Beef and Pork which I had Salted there...
...can Obtain. Also supposing the Fusils whose Barrels may answer for further Use in the...
...Vessel which was to receive the Stores with Seven Barrels of Sugar on Board they seisd & bro’...
...particular. You say there are 15400 gun barrels for infantry 8200 ditto for Rampart Fusils &...
...and fit for Service; I had near Two Hundred Barrels sent me last Year by General Schuyler, and...
...Jamaica, and that they have Several Hundred Barrels of Pork at Different Parts of the...
...such as are so light and thin in the barrel, that they would not bear a charge with safety...
...millstones and produced “superfine” flour. The flour and barrel, bought from the Purviances,...
...have here of this; was informed that 3000 Barrels of Powder and some Cloathing were lodg’d...
...offers [us] for our use. That 3000 Barrels of powder and some cloathing were deposited at...
...,987 stands of arms and 1,000 barrels of gunpowder. Apparently security forbade mention of...