Papers, 1743-1835.

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Papers, 1743-1835.

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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 the Biddle-Washington correspondence 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 George A. Washington, 1785-1790; accounts of George Washington with Clement Biddle, 1789-1798. The second group includes letters and papers, 1780-1835, of Alexander Hamilton, Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Timothy Pickering, and others; Gideon Cornell's commissions of appointment as judge, 1743-1748; some colonial paper money; samples of cloth.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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Revolutionary patriot. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1792 July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874585 Army officer and merchant. From the description of Clement Biddle correspondence, 1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450649 Biddle informs Wharm that he is going to advertise in Washington and Philadelphia newspapers for a missing letter he sent to Wharm containing two certificates of transfer to General Pinckney. ...