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Colonel Clement Biddle papers
The papers of Clement Biddle, quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania Militia and United States marshal for Pennsylvania, are divided into two groups: one is made up of correspondence between Biddle and George Washington incident to Biddle's activities as commissary general of forage during...
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| Collection: | Colonel Clement Biddle Papers |
| Collection Number: | 0049 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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The papers of Clement Biddle, quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania Militia and United States marshal for Pennsylvania, are divided into two groups: one is made up of correspondence between Biddle and George Washington incident to Biddle's activities as commissary general of forage during the Revolution, and upon his subsequent business relations with Washington; the other section contains miscellaneous letters and documents from various famous men. The Washington-Biddle papers include: 9 general orders and warrants, 1778-1780, signed by Washington and issued in connection with the work of the commissary department in the Revolution; letters from Washington to Biddle, 1784-1799; letters from Tobias Lear, 1789-1791, and from Washington, 1785-1790; accounts of Washington with Biddle, 1789-1798.
The second group includes: letters and papers, 1780-1835, of John Quincy Adams, Aaron Burr, Nathanael Greene, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Timothy Pickering, and others; Gideon Cornell's commissions of appointment as judge, 1743-1748; some colonial paper money; samples of cloth.
Correspondence of Clement Biddle, 1778-1790 published in P.M.H.B., 32 (1908): 498-500; 52 (1928): 310-343; 42 (1918): 53-76, 143-162, 193-207. |