Clement Biddle
19 documents

Clement Biddle discusses army accounts with Joseph Howell
10/31/1787 LetterbookClement Biddle encloses an order for Captain Richardson's certificate to Joseph Howell. Biddle also asks if Howell can devise any method settling accounts for Captains Seath and Reese.
Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853)- No image
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04/16/1788 Cited letter or documentLetter, Citation only Cited in Knox to Biddle, 04/19/1788.
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Biddle solicits a judicial appointment from Knox
06/29/1789 Autograph Letter SignedLetter, mentions a Bill for establishing a Judiciary; asks for Judicairy appointment.
Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]
Biddle seeks recommendation from Knox to Washington
07/22/1789 Autograph Letter SignedLetter, mentions health of child; asks for recommendation to President.
Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]
Biddle makes a recommendation to Knox
05/10/1790 Autograph Letter SignedLetter, recommends candidate for appointment.
Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]
Wagons for stores and ammunition
09/19/1794 Autograph Letter SignedClement Biddle has provided two wagons for stores and artillery ammunition. Another one for musket cartridges will follow shortly. Hodgdon is Commissary of Military Stores.
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794
Requesting the missing tents and kettles
10/07/1794 Autograph Letter SignedBiddle is impatient for the arrival of the wagon which carries the 100 common tents and horsemans tents. He would also like to request 50 more common tents and forty horsemans tents.
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794
Requesting tents and camp kettles in the advance to Carlisle
10/05/1794 Autograph Letter SignedBiddle requests 100 tents, 20 horseman tents, and 50 camp kettles, as he advances on Carlisle
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794
Requesting an exact return on items furnished
10/03/1794 Autograph Letter SignedClement Biddle comments that Mr. Jackson has come round and provided an account for the last stores passed to him. Biddle wishes for an exact return from Hodgdon of the articles actually delivered on …
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794
Request for brass-mounted muskets
09/07/1794 Autograph Letter SignedBiddle requests from Hodgdon, Commissary of Military Stores, that the artillery have brass-mounted muskets in lieu of some other item which is illegible.
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794
Military and Quartermaster's Stores at Pittsburgh
03/1794 Document SignedThis is the return of the military and quartermaster's stores at Pittsburgh intended for the detachment destined for the western frontier.
William Irvine Papers
Letter of inquiry regarding marquee [tents]
09/29/1794 Document SignedBrigadier General White has applied to Biddle asking whether marquees [tents] for New Jersey have been sent as Colonel Mentges had assured him.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
General return of military stores
09/18/1794 Document SignedA general return of military stores and apparatus for the artillery. Artillery destined to march next day. Requests attention to enclosed return and provision of supplies deemed necessary.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Biddle makes recommendation to Knox
01/06/1794 Autograph Letter SignedLetter, advises on civil appointment
Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]
Articles Wanted
09/27/1794Biddle lists articles he will need which he did not have when he left town. Further concerns about supplies for troops.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Arms & Equipage Needed to Supply the Militia
09/24/1794 Letter SignedClement Biddle, the Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania, asks Hamilton to order Samuel Hodgdon to provide the arms and camp equipage Biddle needs to equip the militia that it is about to set out for …
Alexander Hamilton Papers
A request from Camp Carlisle for more tents
10/11/1794 Autograph Letter SignedBiddle writes Hodgdon from Camp Carlisle, where more troops are arriving every day but there is a deficiency of tents. Nearly 500 men are without tents, and this number will only get worse. The …
Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794- No image
Forged Powers of Attorney
06/16/1796 Cited letter or documentCITATION only. Simmons to Biddle 06/17/1796. [Discusses forged powers of attorney presented at the War Department from soldiers John Young and William Smallwood claiming land as soldiers of the …
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