Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Samuel Hodgdon
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01613.01 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Letter signed Date: 7 July 1794 Pagination: 1 p. ; 32 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Orders Hodgdon, the Superintendent of Military Stores of the United States Army, to deliver munitions to Governor Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania as a loan. The supplies were needed for the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. Endorsed on the bottom by Mifflin, with the direction to send the powder to Colonel Clement Biddle, who endorsed the document on the verso. Written from the War Department.
…Please to deliver to the order of his Excellency Governor Mifflin, as a loan, for the immediate defence of the Frontier Counties of Pennsylvania, Twenty quarter Casks of good Rifle powder - Fifteen hundred weight of Lead, and One Thousand Rifle Flints
I am Sir,
Your humble Servt:
[in another hand: HKnox
Secy of war]
Samuel Hodgdon Esqr:
[in another hand: Be pleased to deliver the Powder to the Order of Col. Clemt
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