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A proportion of Ordnance and stores for the intended expedition to North America
By order of the Board dated the 12th of October 1754 (1)
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Light Brass Ordnance
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No.
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12 Pounders
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4
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Brass Howitzers with Carriages and limbers compleat
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6 Pounders
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6
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| Forfe Carts compleat with anvil &c |
1
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| Sling cart compleat |
1
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| Ammunition Carts |
8
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| Tumbrils |
2
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| Money Tumbril |
1
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| Cover'd Waggons compleat |
16
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| Woulding Sticks for Do. |
48
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| Tryangle Gyn compleat |
1
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| Spare Carriage with Limbers |
12 Pounder
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1
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6 Pounder
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2
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| Spare Wheels, Shod for |
6 Pounder
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2
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Howitzer
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2
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Waggon
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2
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Ammunition Cart
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2
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| Spare Axletrees bound for |
12 Pounder
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2
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6 Pounder
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2
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Howitzer
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2
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Waggon
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2
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| Drag Ropes with Pins |
12 Pounders
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10
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6 Pounders
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14
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Howitzers
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8
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| Draught Chains for Howitzers |
Pairs
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4
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| Ladles with Staves |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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6
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| Spunges with Rammers |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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6
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Howitzers
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4
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| Spunge Bags painted |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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4
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Howitzers
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6
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| Wadhooks with Rammers |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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6
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| Field Tampeons with Collars |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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6
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Howitzers
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4
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| Tarpaulins |
12 Pounders
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5
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6 Pounders
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6
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Money Tumb
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1
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Large spare
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6
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| Spare Spunge & Rammer Heads |
6 Pounders
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4
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12 Pounders
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6
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| Handspikes |
12 Pounders
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10
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6 Pounders
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14
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Howitzers
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8
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Spare
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20
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| Aprons of Lead |
12 Pounders
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4
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6 Pounders
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6
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Howitzers
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4
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| Round Shot with Wooden Bottoms |
12 Pounders
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100
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6 Pounders
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450
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| Flannel Cartridges |
12 Pounders
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1700
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6 Pounders
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2850
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Howitzers
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100
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| Tin Cases filled with Iron shot and fixed with wooden bottoms |
12 Pounders
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400
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6 Pounders
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1200
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| Grape Shot compleat with wooden tampeons and pins |
Howitzers
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100
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| Empty shells for Howitzers |
7 3/4 inch
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400
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| Spare flannel cartridges |
12 Pounder
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170
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6 Pounder
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285
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Howitzers
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10
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| Spare Round Shot |
12 Pounders
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1200
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6 Pounders
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1200
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| Grates compleat for heating shot |
2
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| Tin Tubes |
12 Pounders
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2040
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6 Pounders
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3408
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Howitzers
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220
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| Boxes for Tin Tubes with Straps |
12 Pounders
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8
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6 Pounders
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12
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Howitzers
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4
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| Iron Crows |
6
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| Corn'd Powder, Copper Hoop'd for the guns, Howitzers & small arms |
Whole Barrels
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560
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| Hand Screws |
Large
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1
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Small
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1
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| Budge Barrels Copper Hoop'd |
7
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| Copper Powder Measures |
to contain 3 lbs
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2
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do. 2 lb
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2
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do. 1 1/2 lb
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2
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do. 1 1/4 lb
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2
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do. 1 lb
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2
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| Funnels of Plate |
4
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| Match |
Cwt
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5
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| Linstocks with Cocks |
7
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| Tann'd Hides |
24
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| Wadmill Tilts |
8
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| Powder Horns |
14
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| Priming Irons |
42
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| Sheep Skins |
24
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| Spunge Tacks |
6000
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| Hammers |
Claw
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2
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Small
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2
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| Lanthorns |
Muscovy
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6 |
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Tin
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12
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Dark
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6
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| Hair Cloths |
8
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| Candles Tallow |
lb
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40
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| Links |
Dozen
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5
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| Leather Buckets |
7
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| Mens Harness |
12 to a sett
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30 sets
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| Horse Harness |
Thill with cart sadles
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45
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Trace
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87
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Bitt Halters
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132
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Wantys
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45
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| Cart Whips |
45
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| Swingletrees |
8
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| Spare Ladle Staves |
14
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| Iron |
Flat Bar Cwt.
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5
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Square Do. Cwt.
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5
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Rod Do. Cwt.
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3
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| Steel |
Cwt.
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2
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| Couples for Chain Traces |
100
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| Spare Streak Nails |
200
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| Forelockkings |
48
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| Forelock Keys |
Pairs
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100
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| Spring Keys |
Pairs
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12
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| Steel Spikes for Nailing Guns |
100
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| Punches or Drifts & Hammers for the vents |
Each
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14
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| Spare Punches |
10
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| Camp Colours |
12
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| Sea Coals |
Chaldrons
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5
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| Copper Canhooks |
Pairs
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2
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| Splinter Padlocks |
48
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| Hambro' Line |
lb
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172
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| Packthread |
lb
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30
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| Twine |
lb
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10
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| Tarr'd Marline |
Skains
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20
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| Grease, in Iron hoop'd Firkins |
Firkins
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12
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| Hemp Rubbish |
Cwt.
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2
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| Markine Spikes |
2
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| Ballast Baskets |
20
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| Melting Ladles |
2
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| Entrenching Tools |
Pickaxes helved
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300
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Spare helves for do
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50
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Spades
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400
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Shovels
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200
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Felling Axes
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100
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Hand Hatchets
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300
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Hand Bills
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250
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Cross Cut Saws
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6
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| Sand Bages |
Bushel
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2000
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Half Bushel
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10,000
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| Wheelbarrows |
200
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| Handbarrows |
50
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| Park Pickets |
40
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| Wood Mauls |
4
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| Pane Mauls |
4
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| Whole Deals |
12 feet
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50
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| Mantlets |
25
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| Nails |
40 penny
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5000
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30
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5000
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20
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10,000
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10
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15,000
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6
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10,000
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4
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4000
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Clout
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7000
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Dog
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2000
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Copper
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200
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| Spikes |
6 inch
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600
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| Gimblets of Sorts |
Dozens
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8
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| Tarr'd Rope | Picket Line 2 1/2 inch |
1
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2 inch, coils
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1
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1 inch
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1
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5 inch
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1
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4 inch
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1
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3 inch
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1
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2 inch
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1
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1 inch
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1
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| Tallow |
Cwt.
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1/2
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| Wall pieces |
10
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| Carbines Rifled Barrel'd |
12
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| Molds for Do. |
12
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| Lead |
Cwt.
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1/2
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| For Small Arms | ||
| Spare Ramrods |
Musquet, steel
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50
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Musquetm, wood
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400
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Carbine
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60
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| Flints |
Musquet
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142,000
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Carbine
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1800
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Wallpiece
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200
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| Lead Shot |
Musquet
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44:0:0
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Carbine
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0:8:0
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Wallpeice
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0:1:2
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| Fine Paper |
Rheams
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187
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| Laboratory Stores | ||
| Hand Grenades Fix'd |
1000
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| Spare fuzes for Do. |
50
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| Port Fires, small long |
Dozens
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30
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| Composition for Port Fires |
lb
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100
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| Empty Cases for Do. |
500
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| Mould for Do. |
1
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| Drifts, Formers, Mallets and Ladles for Do. |
set
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1
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| Worsted |
lb
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6
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| Green Soap |
Firkin
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1
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| Needles |
Dozens
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6
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| Knives |
6
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| Scissars |
Pair
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4
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| Mealed Powder |
lb
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200
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| White Wine Vinegar |
Gallons
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2
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| Spirits of Wine |
Gallons
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2
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| Quick Match for Tin Tubes |
lb
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12
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Tin Plates
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Sheets
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50
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| Paper |
Cartridges, Rheams
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1
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Blue, Quires
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4
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Brown, Rheams
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6
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| Cartouches of Leather |
12 Pounders
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8
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6 Pounders
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12
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Howitzers
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4
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| Barras, Fine |
Yards
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10
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| Kitt |
lb
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28
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| Iron Kitt Kettle and Trevit |
Each
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1
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| Flax |
lb
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1
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| Rasps |
10
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| Pinchers fpr Drawing Fuzes |
Pair
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1
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| Machine for Do. Small |
1
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| Brass Scales, Small |
Pair
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1
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| Brass Weights |
8 lb Pile
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1
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| Copper Salting Boxes |
6
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| Copper Funnels for Filling Shells |
2
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| Drawing Knives for Paring Fuzes |
2
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| Forms and Staples for Do. |
2
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| Tennant Saw for Fuzes |
1
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| Three Square Files |
3
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| Twine |
lb
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2
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| Cat Gut |
Knots
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40
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| Mallets for |
7 3/8 inch Fuzes
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4
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| Setters for |
7 3/8 Fuzes
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8
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| Rockets for Signals |
Dozens
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6
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| Laboratory Chests |
4
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| For Service of the Engineers | ||
| Theodolite compleat with Tellescope sights |
1
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| Plain Tables compleat with Indexes |
2
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| Surveying Chains |
100 feet
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2
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50 feet
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1
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| Cases of Pocket Instruments compleat |
4
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| Parrallel Rules from 12 to 18 inches |
4
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| Drawing Pens |
6
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| Pocket Compasses with Spare Needle to each |
4
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| Camp Colours White without Cyphers & Staves |
12
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| Officers Tents compleat with Poles, Pins & Mallets |
5
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| Armour |
Backs
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3
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Breasts
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3
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Head pieces
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2
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| Field Beds compleat with bedding |
2
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| For the Artillery & Civil Officers and Artificers | ||
| Brass Quadrant |
1
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| Brass Callipers |
Pair
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1
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| Small case of Instruments |
1
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| Gauges |
2
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| Camp Kettles with Frying Pan covers |
40
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| Canteens for holding water |
100
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| Tents compleat |
Officers
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8
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Horsemen
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8
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Foot
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20
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Bell
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1
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Laboratory
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1
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| Field Bed compleat with bedding |
1
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| Hammodck Bedding compleat |
39
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| Setts of Tools & Materials |
Carpenters
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3
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Wheelers
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2
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Smiths
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3
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Cooper
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1
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Collar Maker
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1
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Armourers
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2
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| For the Surgeon | ||
| Chests of Medicines |
1
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| Chests of Instruments |
1
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| For the Pay Master | ||
| Iron Chest |
1
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| Scales and Weights to weight 1 lb |
Sett
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1
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| Do. to weigh single pieces of money |
Sett
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1
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| For Service of the two Irish Regiments | ||
| Musquets of the Kings Pattern without nosebands with steel rammers |
1400
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| Cartouch Boxes with Straps |
12 Holes
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1400
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| Swords with Scabbards and brass hilts for |
Serjeants
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20
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Grenadiers
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82
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Private Men
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738
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Drummers
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20
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| Halberts |
60
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| Drums |
20
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| Tents Compleat for |
Officers
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40
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Foot
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400
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| For Service of the two American Regiments | ||
| Musquets with Bayonets |
with Nosebands & wood rammers
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1000
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Dutch with nosebands & wood R.
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1000
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| Cartouch Boxes with Straps |
12 Holes
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2000
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| Swords with Scabbards |
Brass Hilts
|
320
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Iron Hilts
|
1800
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| Halberts |
80
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Drums
|
40
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| Tents compleat for |
Officers
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56
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Foot
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570
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