Letter

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

2019.021.0018

Scope and Content

This letter is asking Captain Charles P. Stone to send the Monterey Redoubt 17 Pintle blocks for their gun carriages as the old ones are rotten. The requester is Briscoe Baldwin who is part of the Ordnance Department stationed at Monterey. He also asks for a supply of sperm oil as what little they had was used in oiling their muskets.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection