Request for brass-mounted muskets
Document 1794Biddle requests from Hodgdon, Commissary of Military Stores, that the artillery have brass-mounted muskets in lieu of some other item which is illegible.
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[endorsement, written diagonally]
to Comple the Artillery
Brigadiers number of Tunics
[undecipherable] number of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Sent [undecipherable] Biddle
[undecipherable] 30 [undecipherable]
Col: Hodgdon
30 Muskets — [undecipherable] mounted
[address panel]
9
Colonel Mc[undecipherable]
for [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Biddle requests from Hodgdon, Commissary of Military Stores, that the artillery have brass-mounted muskets in lieu of some other item which is illegible.
Date
09/07/1794
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1794090780001
Page start
1
Note
Letter is nigh unreadable (beginning seems to go "Sir, please to let the Artillery have 60 muskets instead of...)
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Clement Biddle
Quartermaster General
Notable items
artillery
muskets
brass