Letter from Jacob Dickert and Henry DeHuff to Tench Coxe, Purveyor of Public Supplies

July 14, 1804

Letter from Jacob Dickert and Henry DeHuff to Tench Coxe, Purveyor of Public Supplies, requesting payment for rifles sent to the federal government from Lancaster gunsmiths, July 14, 1804. Dickert and DeHuff note that the rifle makers “over Run us Daily, for the Money” due to them.

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  • Repository Ed and Helen Flanagan Collection
  • Date July 14, 1804
  • Copyright Copyrighted
  • Disclaimer Courtesy of the Ed and Helen Flanagan Collection

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  • Title Letter from Jacob Dickert and Henry DeHuff to Tench Coxe, Purveyor of Public Supplies
  • Keywords Scott, Paul, Gordon, Jacob, Dickert, gun, manufacturing, gunsmith, lancaster, pennsylvania, rifle, war, weapon, henry, DeHuff, Tench, Coxe, Gunsmith,
  • Website Name Immigrant Entrepreneurship
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  • Access Date December 10, 2023
  • Publisher German Historical Institute
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 9, 2018