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- GLC#
- GLC00488
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 8 November 1780
- Author/Creator
- Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806
- Title
- [Estimate of the profits of the office of the Commissary General of Forage]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 34 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Pettit, acting as Assistant Quarter Master General, responds to the request of Colonel Clement Biddle, former Commissioner General of Forage, for the profits of his office since 2 March 1778, when General Nathanael Greene became Quarter Master General. Provides a detailed calculation of Biddle profits from commissions.
Provides an example of the form and acceptability of war-profiteering during the American Revolution.
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