Clement Biddle A.L.S., Camp New Brunswick, 5 July 1778 : to Colonel Stephen Moylan, Boundbrook [N.J.]

Clement Biddle A.L.S., Camp New Brunswick, 5 July 1778 : to Colonel Stephen Moylan, Boundbrook [N.J.]

New Brunswick [N.J.] 1778

[4] pages on 2 conjugate leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)

MSS L1977.164.6 M

"If the cavalry should halt to refresh themselves I am of the opinion they can be best furnished with hay & pasture on the plain below the mountain from Middlebrook to the Scotch plains and I now write to Mr. Furman to use hisutmost endeavoures to procure grain suitable for them."
Mr. Furman is probably Col. Moore Furman, who was the deputy quartermaster general of New Jersey during the Revolution.
"Some corn is already orderd from Trenton which Mr. Furman shall detain for you."
"You will please to inform him the route you will take when you march ... that he may lodge the necessary forage at proper places."
Mr. Stark at Boundbrook & Mr. Caldwell at Springfield can procure hay & pasturage ...."
If the person you mentioned will call on me he shall require money & directions for procuring forage for the cavalry."
Watermark: S & K -- Gravell. Foreign watermarks, figure 610, p. 172.
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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