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[No. 1.]
An Estimate of the cost of such articles, for the support of an AMERICANArmy, consisting of twenty-two thousand men, from the 10th of OCTOBER, 1775, to the 10th of MAY, 1776, being seven months, as fall within the department of the Commissary-General:
| Twenty-five thousand barrels Flour, at 44s., | £55,000 | | Twelve thousand barrels Pork, at 65 s., | 39,000 | | One thousand barrels salted Beef, at 50 s., | 2,500 | | Twenty-two thousand pounds fresh Beef, three days in a week, 25 s. per cwt., | 29,100 | | Two hundred barrels Beer or Cider per day, 5 s., | 10,500 | | Twenty-two thousand pints Milk per day, 1d., | 19,150 | | Twenty-eight thousand bushels Peas or Beans, 6 s., | 8,400 | | Six ounces Butter per man per week, 8 d. per pound, | 10,080 | | Two gallons Vinegar per man per week, | 10,000 | | One hundred hogsheads New-England Rum, | 1,250 | | Hospital stores uncertain; say thirty pipes Teneriffe Wine, | 900 | | One hundred casks Raisins, 50 s., | 250 | | One hundred barrels Oat Meal, | 200 | |
| | £186,330 | | Add contingencies, | 13,670 | |
| | £200,000 | |
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I compute the Pork as drove to camp; if bought in the country, the transportation will cost twenty Shillings per barrel more; in the whole, twelve thousand Pounds. Beer and Cider, Vinegar, Wine, Raisins, Oat Meal, and fifty hogsheads Rum, already purchased.
JOSEPH TRUMBULL.
[No. 2.]
An Estimate of the cost of a Barrack, ninety-six feet by sixteen feet, to be divided into six rooms, and to contain one hundred men:
| Boards, | £30000 | | Joist or slit work, | 6000 | | Timber for the frame, | 12060 | | Shingles, | 10160 | | Nails, | 9000 | | Bricks, | 12060 | | Additional wages to Soldiers, one month, (sixteen men,) who build the Barrack, 20 s. per month, | 16000 | |
| | | Cost of a Barrack, ninety-six by sixteen feet, | £96080 | | At the lowest estimate, we must build one hundred and twenty Barracks of that size, (ninety for Cambridge, and thirty for Roxbury camp,) which, in round numbers, will amount to | £12,000 | | Allowing one and a half cord of fire-wood, per week, to one hundred men, the Army will consume, in six months, eight thousand cords, at 20 s., | 8,000 | |
| | Lawful money, | £20,000 | |
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THOS. MIFFLIN, Quartermaster-General.
Cambridge, October 5, 1775.
[No. 3.]
Cash advanced from the Congress —Dr.
| To cash paid Marsteller & Thorme, for fifteen Rifles, as per account, | £680400 | | To cash paid Benja. Weiser, for four Rifles, as per account, | 160206 | | To cash paid John Ross, for Drums, &c., as per account, | 371906 | | To cash paid Duffield & Delany, for Medicines for the Surgeon, | 690609 | | To cash paid six wagoners, in part, for carriage, as per account, | 900000 | | To cash paid Peter Filbert, for Mr. John Biddle, Commissary, as per account, | 2000000 | | To cash paid Christian Wegman, for Mr. John Biddle, Commissary, as per account, | £171400 | | To cash paid Owen Biddle, for Mr. John Kean, as per receipt, for Rifles, | 541800 | | To cash paid M. Gratz, for Rifles, as per account, | 171000 | | To cash paid Mr. Graydon, for Blanketing, Camp Kettles, &c., | 1401000 | | To cash paid John Davis, Commissary, in Reading, | 360000 | | To cash paid for Blankets, Russia Sheeting, &c., | 901000 | | To cash paid Major Magaw, | 111500 | | To cash paid for Epaulets for Capt. John Lowdon, | 60000 | | To cash paid Expresses at sundry times, | 300706 | | To cash paid Margaret Duncan, for Russia Sheeting, by Mr. Biddle, as per account, | 550000 | | To cash paid William Homes’s Draft, | 760000 | | To cash paid William Patterson, Conductor of Military Stores, | 10000 | | To cash paid Captain James Ross, as per receipt, | 600000 | | To cash paid Captains Lowdon, Dowdle, Nagel, Smith, Miller, Hendricks, and Chambers, sixty Pounds each, as per receipt, amounting to | 4200000 | | To cash paid Lieutenant McClellan, as per receipt, | 50000 | | To cash paid Lieutenant James Parr, as per receipt, | 150000 | | To cash paid Lieutenants Grier, McCornel, and Buchanan, | 150000 | | To cash paid Valentine Eckart, Wagon-Master, | 300000 | | To cash paid Richard Backhouse, as per receipt, (Commissary from Reading,) | 600000 | | To cash paid Henry Yedse, Peter Smith, and Stophel Leab, Wagoners, as per receipts, | 221000 | | To cash paid Lieutenant John Dill, | 50000 | | To cash paid William Magaw, Surgeon, | 50000 | | To cash paid Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hand, | 440000 | | To cash paid Captain Michael Dowdle, | 350000 | | To cash paid Nicholas Hansigger, Agent, | 71000 | | To cash paid Lieut. Samuel Craig, £l 5 s., and paid Wm. Magaw, Surgeon, £7 10 s., | 81500 | | To cash paid Lieutenants McClellan, Irvine, and Nicholls, as per receipt, | 150000 | | To cash paid John Montgomery, for cash lent to purchase Provisions, &c., | 520000 | | To cash paid Lieutenant Robert Makenzie, as per receipt, | 30206 | | To cash paid David Harris, Paymaster, | 81706 | | To cash given Captain Hendricks to recruit his Company, (omitted above,) | 261110 | | To cash given Captain Chambers to recruit his Company, (omitted above,) | 271000 | |
| | £1,8850101 |
Contra —Cr.
| By five thousand Dollars, at seven Shillings six Pence each, | £1,8750000 | | Balance due, | 100101 | |
| | Errors excepted: | £1,8850101 | |
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WM. THOMPSON, Col., Second Regiment.
[No. 4.]
INSTRUCTIONS TO CAPTAIN NICHOLSON BROUGHTON.
1. You, being appointed a Captain in the Army of the United Colonies of North-America, are hereby directed to take the command of a detachment of said Army, and proceed on board the schooner Hannah, at Beverly, lately fitted out and equipped with arms, ammunition, and provisions, at the Continental expense.
2. You are to proceed, as commander of said schooner, immediately on a cruise against such vessels as may be
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