Request for brass-mounted muskets

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Request for brass-mounted muskets

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.

year created

1794

month created

09

day created

07

recipient

in image

note

Letter is nigh unreadable (beginning seems to go "Sir, please to let the Artillery have 60 muskets instead of...)

notable person/group

Samuel Hodgdon
Clement Biddle
Quartermaster General

notable item/thing

artillery
muskets
brass

document number

1794090780001

page start

1

number of pages

2

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) UAA11 (2 pages) Collection: Samuel Hodgdon Papers, 1794 [unknown]

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Clement Biddle [unknown] [n/a]
Recipient Samuel Hodgdon [unknown] [n/a]