Day-by-Day / June 16, 1803

June 16, 1803

Pouches and powder horns

An invoice for fifteen shot pouches and powder horns previously delivered to Meriwether Lewis by Philadelphia saddle maker Robert Martin is charged to U.S. Army purchasing agent Israel Whelan.

  Philadelphia June 16 1803
Israel Whelen Esqr. Prvyr. Genrl. U.S.  
  To Robt. C. Martin Dr.
To 15 rifle pouches @ 1 75/100 Ea. $26.25

The above fifteen Pouches were attached to a like number of Powder Horns and delivered to Capt. M. Lewis on the 6th June 1803.[1]“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

Robert C. Martin ran a saddling business on Philadelphia’s Market St.

 

Notes

Notes
1 “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.

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