Clement Biddle A.L.S., Perth Amboy, Aug. 22, 1776 : to Colonel Stephen Moylan, Quartermaster General, New York
1776
MSS L1977.164.2 M
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Title
Clement Biddle A.L.S., Perth Amboy, Aug. 22, 1776 : to Colonel Stephen Moylan, Quartermaster General, New York
Published
Perth Amboy, [N.J.] 1776
Description
[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)
Call Number
MSS L1977.164.2 M
Note
Informs Moylan of some of the challenges in getting food rations and other supplies to him.
"Some of the carts ... emply'd by Mr. Marsh in hawling corn & tar for you have been stop'd here occasioned by their not informing me the service they were in, therefore I have sent to him to give each of them a note that they may not be taken off from that necessary business which I shall forward as much as in my power.
"I last evening removed about 60 lbs corn from the wharf ... to the [barraks?] as we had information of an attack on this place being intended but it proved false."
"Last evening the commissary informed he had that day issued 5400 rations & 400 R[or B?s illegible] retained at this port of Perth Amboy."
"....There are 4000 men here. They are continuously coming in - chiefly militia - the flyig camp forms slowly owing to all that militia being ordered and which occasions our having a disorderly tho' a fine body of men."
Biddle was Quartermaster General for Pennsylvania
Moylan was promoted to Quartermaster General of the Continental Army in June, 1776; he later an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.
Watermark: Vander Lay
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
"Some of the carts ... emply'd by Mr. Marsh in hawling corn & tar for you have been stop'd here occasioned by their not informing me the service they were in, therefore I have sent to him to give each of them a note that they may not be taken off from that necessary business which I shall forward as much as in my power.
"I last evening removed about 60 lbs corn from the wharf ... to the [barraks?] as we had information of an attack on this place being intended but it proved false."
"Last evening the commissary informed he had that day issued 5400 rations & 400 R[or B?s illegible] retained at this port of Perth Amboy."
"....There are 4000 men here. They are continuously coming in - chiefly militia - the flyig camp forms slowly owing to all that militia being ordered and which occasions our having a disorderly tho' a fine body of men."
Biddle was Quartermaster General for Pennsylvania
Moylan was promoted to Quartermaster General of the Continental Army in June, 1776; he later an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.
Watermark: Vander Lay
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
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