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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03221-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 29, 1785
- Author/Creator
- Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. ; Height: 23.4 cm, Width: 18.7 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Thanks him for his recent correspondence and for the "western" contract Samuel Shaw sent him. Will be glad to know when a new contract is ready. Thanks him for attending to his accounts of rations that he furnished Captain [likely David] Zeigler, as well as for procuring him money for the rations. Mentions that his "commercial friends" wanted him to ask Knox about problems with the "Algerines," or pirates. Wishes to know whether Congress has passed any measures regarding the pirates. Mentions that some friends of his own a frigate which they would be willing to donate to Congress for use as a war ship or else as a peace offering to the pirates, if appropriate. He and his wife send their regards to Mrs. Lucy Knox.
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