Delivery of Powder
Document 1794Note, directs charge of powder to Colonel Biddle.
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Clement Biddle
2 M & Penn[undecipherable]
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War department July 7th 1794.
Sir.
Please to deliver to the order of his Excel-lency Governor Mifflin, as a loan, for the immediate defence of the Frontier Counties of Pennsylvania, [underline: Twenty quarter casks] of good Rifle powder— [underline: Fifteen hundred weight] of Lead, and [underline: One Thousand] Rifle Flints.
I am Sir,
Your humble Servt
H Knox
[undecipherable]
[Samuel Hodgdon Esqr
Be pleased to deliver the Powder to the order of Col. Clent Biddle
Ma[undecipherable: probable reading: Major] Hodgdon [undecipherable]
July 7. 1794]
Type
Letter
Description
Note, directs charge of powder to Colonel Biddle.
Date
07/07/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794070715001
Page start
2
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Major Hodgdon
Colonel Clement Biddle
Quartermaster General Pennsylvania
Governor Mifflin
governor Pennsylvania
Secretary of War
Notable locations
frontier counties of Pennsylvania
War Department
Notable items
powder
deliver the powder to the order
rifle powder
rifle flints
lead
casks
quarter casks

