Day-by-Day / June 15, 1803

June 15, 1803

Tents and bags

On behalf of Meriwether Lewis, U.S. Army Purveyor of Public Supplies Israel Whelan purchases tents, cloth, and two dozen “Hooks & Eyes” from Philadelphia upholsterer Richard Wevill.

Private Tent

Grose’s Military Antiquities of 1801

a tent in the shape of the letter 'A' or triangle.

PLATE 1. Fig. 1. The tent poles of a private tent. 2. A private tent.[1]Francis Grose, Military Antiquities (London: Whitehall & G. Kearsley, 1801), 2:223.

Mr. Israel Whelan
1803
June 15		 To richd. Wevill Dr.
To 107 yds of 7/8 brown Linen @ 1/6 21.40
To 46½ yds of 7/8 Flanders Sheeting @ 2/5 14.49
To 10 yds of 7/8 Country Linen 3/ 4.– 
To making the brown Linen into 8 Tents, with Eyelet-holes, laps, &c Thread &c. 16.– 
To making the Russia Sheeting into 45 Bags. Thread &cord. @ 1/6 9.– 
To 2 Gross of Hooks & Eyes @ 3/9 1.– 
To Oiling all the Linen & Sheeting—
150 Square Yards @ 2/6		 52.– 
To numbering all the Bags & Tents 1.50
$119.39[2]“Supplies from Private Vendors” in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), … Continue reading

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Notes

Notes
↑1 Francis Grose, Military Antiquities (London: Whitehall & G. Kearsley, 1801), 2:223.
↑2 “Supplies from Private Vendors” in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 90–1.

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