From James Madison to Charles Simms, 10 July 1805 (Abstract)
To Charles Simms, 10 July 1805 (Abstract)
§ To Charles Simms. 10 July 1805, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to inform me whether there is at Alexandria any Vessel, bound to Boston; as I wish to Ship thither five pieces of brass cannon intended for Barbary.”1
Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.
1. On 12 Aug. 1805 the War Department charged the State Department $8,664.99 for five brass eighteen-pound cannon including carriages and transport from Philadelphia to Boston (DNA: RG 59, ML). For the manufacture of the cannon, see JM to Tobias Lear, 20 Apr. 1805, 9:261–62.