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In the Council Chamber
200 Muskets with Slings, appear to be in good Order.
30 Trumpets, 70 Broad Swords, 2 Drums, 42 halberts and Pikes,
50 Sword Blades and 16 Daggers 59, Buff Belts,
Above the Conference Chamber
85 Black hilted Swords, 42 Bright ditto. 15 Cutlasses. 35 Pistols
one New Drum & one Old ditto. 200 New Bayonets with Cartouch
Boxes & Bullet Molds.
90 Buff Belts 29 Old Bayonets 86 fire Locks Short Muskets &
Carbines 68. old Muskets and Carbines some without Locks and
many with Broken Locks.
133 Old Cartouch Boxes 10 Old Slings 8 hair pouches and powder
horns, 104 Old Muskets most of which without Locks & not worth
repairing, 9 Pistols the Locks broke and out of Order 4 pair holsters
6 Broken Drums
5 Chests of Matches 30 Blue Cases for Muskets, 10 listed Cases
for Carbines, 5 half Pikes 15 pair Drum Sticks 11 New Carbine
Slings 7 New Cartouch Boxes 9. Old Belts for Muskets 2 Cw.t Gun
Powder 1/4 Cw.t of Musket Ball and great Shot
Under the Conference Chamber.
382, Muskets very rusty and many of the Locks want repairing
60 ditto many of the Stocks. Broke & with out Locks. 35 Musket
Barrels, 3 Casks Bar lead.
40 Kegs Musket Ball each 1/2 Cw.t 200 Bayonets 1500 Gun flints.
In the Powder house
14 Barrels Gun powder Marked F L. B. 80 Buff Belts, 1000 Gun
flints.
77 Kegs Musket Ball 4 Barrel Carbine ditto
On the half Moon Battery.
15 peices of Cannon fixed on Wood Wanting Aprons and Tomkins
& two Cramps as also to be paid well and painted which unless
Speedily done your Committee Apprehend they will be rendered
unfit for Service and even dangerous to Fire and your Committee
beg leave to inform your Honble House that the Several peices of
Old Cannon mentioned in former Reports have lain on the point are
none of them remaining there now.
Your Committee find that Since the last Report of the State of
the Arms, and Amunition there have been received by the Armourer
into the Magazine from Fort Frederick & Fort Cumberland three
hundred Muskets one hundred Gun & Carbine & Carbine Barrels
two hundred Bayonets said to be much eaten with rust when they
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Oct. 27
p. 141
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