Clement Biddle A.L.S. Philadelphia, July 14, 1776 : to Mr. Gustavus Risberg & Mr. John Ladd Howell

Clement Biddle A.L.S. Philadelphia, July 14, 1776 : to Mr. Gustavus Risberg & Mr. John Ladd Howell

Philadephia 1776

[2] p. ; 34 cm.

MSS L1993.1.127

"A number of troops from Maryland are expected in town this evening, and the quarters which might serve a small part of them in the barracks being infected with the small pox."|"I hereby order that you apply for & obtain the keys of the Presbyterian meeting house & Friends meeting house both in Market Street, & there quarter the troops which will arrive here this evening or tomorrow & when necessity requires.... charging the troops to refrain from damaging the buildings in any way whatsoever."|Both Biddle and Howell were Quakers.|Watermark (unidentified animal)|Page [2] is blank

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