Requesting the missing tents and kettles
Document 1794Biddle 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.
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[Docket: [undecipherable] Clements Biddle &c — Carlisle [undecipherable]]
Dr Carlisle July. 8.
I have your favour of [undecipherable] inst: and
am impatient for the arrival of [the] Lightness
Waggon with the 100 Common Tents and [the?] horse
mens Tents as we are in the greatest want of
them and if you could immediately dispatch
a waggon with 50 more common Tents and
forty horsemans Tents it would be a great
Relief to the wants of the Officers [&] men in
those Articles — please to direct the Wagg[on]
to proceed with all possible dispatch [to] [undecipherable]
with the [undecipherable] beyond this place from
which the first Division of the militia
will march on friday next.
I am Dr Sir
Yor most Obd Ser
Clement Biddle
[undecipherable]
Col. Saml Hodgdon.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Biddle 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.
Date
10/07/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Carlisle
Collection
Document number
1794100780001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Clement Biddle
Notable locations
Carlisle
Philadelphia
Notable items
Common tents
horsemans tents
lack of supplies
lack of tents

