Historic Fort Norfolk Logo

Staats Morris letter October 7, 1797

October 7, 1797
Fort McHenry
Staats Morris to William Simmons
John Cooper, a deserter from Capt. Blackburn's command who gave himself up, claims that he should be discharged since he has made up the time he was absent. Captain Staats Morris requests the date of Cooper's enlistment and also those of deserters William Pettis and Daniel Donoug.

Fort Norfolk Documents

Before 1794, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865

Source of Information

Papers of the War Department 1784 to 1800

Papers of the War Department is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed that its files, and the window they provide into the early federal government, had been lost forever. This collection unites copies of the lost files in a digital archive that reconstitutes this invaluable historical resource.