Fort Kaskaskia, IL On or near this date, Clark and Lewis select new recruits. Lewis also writes a receipt to Amos Stoddard for 75 pounds of gunpowder and a cask.
Lead Powder Kegs
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Arming the Expedition
Decr. 1. 1803.
Received of Capt. Amos Stoddard, fifty pounds of public powder for the use of my command, bound to the western waters.
Recd. twenty five pounds of power in addition to the above, as also one 100lb. powder cask.
MERIWETHER LEWIS Capt.
1st U.S. Regt. Infty.[1]Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 142.
Kaskaskia Recruits
Cahokia, December 19th 1803
On my arrival at Kaskaskias, I made a selection of a sufficient number of men from the troops of that place to complete my party, and made a requisition on the Contractor to cause immediately an adequate deposit of provisions to be made at Cahokia subject to further orders.
MERIWETHER LEWIS Capt.
1st U.S. Regt. Infty.[2]Lewis to Jefferson, Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 145.
The men known to be selected at Kaskaskia:
Notes
| ↑1 | Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 142. |
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| ↑2 | Lewis to Jefferson, Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 145. |
