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Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 February 11; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19842
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Excessive amount of forage consumed. Efforts he is making to supply Pulaski's Legion. Prices rising and forage scarce.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-02-11; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 3; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19931
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Enclosing returns of the damage done by the enemy in Jersey. Amount of hay in different towns; where he ordered it to be sent; did not want to leave it exposed to the enemy. Glad that General Maxwell's brigade is marching to take post at Westfield. Difficulty in procuring forage for General Sullivan's Troops.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-03; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 9; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19779
Description: Letter acknowledging favor of 8th inst. Amount of feed for horses; both this, as well as all the army supplies, depends on their being furnished with money speedily.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-09; 2022

Title: Bostwick, Andrew to Clement Biddle, 1779 November 7; Bostwick, Andrew to Clement Biddle
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19819
Description: Letter from Andrew Bostwick to Clement Biddle. Red Hook - Acknowledging letter of 3d inst., and expressing the utmost pain that the garrison at West Point is suffering for want of forage. Reasons for this state of things. Pressing need for money.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Bostwick, Andrew; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
Date: 1779-11-07; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 6; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19874
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Position the army wintering in New Jersey could take, in order to be furnished with necessary supplies. Prospects for winter quarters. Amount of forage in the different States. Plans suggested, in case of arrival of Count d'Estaing should decide a movement toward New York.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Military camps; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-06; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 15; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19773
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene begging him to order Mr. Van Court to call on him for money, in order to take certain horses off and make way for others.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-15; 2022

Title: Morris, Lewis to Clement Biddle, 1779 July 26; Morris, Lewis to Clement Biddle
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22391
Description: Letter from Lewis Morris to Clement Biddle. West Point - Requested by General Greene to ask for a return of al such officers as are employed in the forage department.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Quartermasters; Forage; Morris, Lewis, 1726-1798; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
Date: 1779-07-26; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 January 25; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19936
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Camp, Middlebrook - Acknowledging favors of 20th and 22nd inst., with an acceptable supply of money from Colonel Pettit. Scarcity of forage on account of great land carriage. Complaints against Colonel Bostwick give him great pain. Thinks the purchasers of forage should have an allowance made for their incidental expenses. Arrival of a fleet of sail at York laden with oats and flour. The first fleet, depended on for provisions, is still missing.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-01-25; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 October 30; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20010
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Account of the landing of the enemy, 900 strong, at Amboy; the property destroyed and plundered, and the number of men killed. Question of forage and stores; fears for them should the enemy land again. Scarcity of flour on the North river.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Military occupation damages; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-10-30; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Clement Biddle, 1780 February 27; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Clement Biddle
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21152
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Clement Biddle. Easton - Has informed Colonel Biddle's agent that owing to lack of money could not purchase any more grain of forage and has dismissed all his assistants. Impossibility of keeping 250 horses without money to pay for produce; desires to be directed where to send them. All transportation through Easton to camp must cease. Involved in a debt of not less than one million pounds!; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Quartermasters; Forage; Military camps; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
Date: 1780-02-27; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 October 29; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19971
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Enemy has not destroyed any hay at Quibble Town and only eighty or ninety tons at Raritan, after which they returned to Amboy, leaving their commander, Colonel Simcoe, and one or two others, prisoners. Report of their burning Brunswick, false. Has given orders to provide General Sullivan's army at Morristown.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-10-29; 2022