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for emoluments, but the proper supplies of necessity and convenience; wishing for nothing more than what our situation in the Army requires. Your Honours have been pleased to fix a certain ration of money and provisions for our accommodation, which, as we have no authority to contradict, we would wish your Honours would take the matter into your further consideration, whether the rank of a Captain, with six Pounds per month, will defray our expenses, or compensate for the constant trouble and fatigue of, Gentlemen, your obliged humble servants,

JOHN PARKE,
Assistant Quartermaster at Roxbury.

JOHN G. FRAZER,
Assistant Quartermaster at Winter and Prospect Hills.

General Return of the Army of the United Colonies, commanded by his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esquire, General and Commander-in-Chief Head-Quarters at CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 17, 1775.

Regiments. Officers present. Rank and File. Wanting to complete. Since last Return.
Commissioned. Staff. Non-com missioned.
Colonels. Lieut. Colonels. Majors. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Chaplains. Adjutants, Quartermasters. Surgeons. Mates. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Present, fit forduty. Sick, present. Sick, absent. On Furlough. On Command. Total. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Privates. Enlisted. Dead. Discharged. Deserted.
1.Colonol Frye’ s – 1 1 7 15 – – – – 1 – 26 13 306 25 31 18 4 384 – – 116 – – – 4
2. Colonel Thompson’s 1 1 1 7 20 – 1 1 1 1 – 28 6 417 30 32 1 1 535 – – – 2 1    
3. Colonel Read’s 1 1 1 9 7 4 1 1 – 1 1 30 12 283 52 37 23 103 498              
4. Colonel Learned’s 1 1 1 9 20 – 1 1 1 1 1 40 21 371 27 5 23 28 454 – – – – – 6  
5. Colonol Nixon’s 1 1 1 3 12 – 1 – 1 1 1 25 17 208 19 28 19 141 415 – – 85        
6. Colonel Stark’s – 1 1 7 6 5 – 1 1 – 1 25 16 276 40 27 21 128 492 – 2          
7. Colonol J. Brewer’s 1 – 1 6 16 – – 1 1 1 1 28 14 236 41 30 19 38 364 – – 134 – – 4 6
8. Colonel Fellows’s 1 1 1 10 20 – 1 1 1 1 1 39 20 312 36 11 11 98 468 1 – 32 – 1    
9. Colonel D. Brewer’s 1 1 1 7 17 – – 1 1 1 – 39 19 358 32 8 17 30 445 – – 55 – – 3 1
10. Colonel Prescott’s 1 1 1 9 16 – – 1 1 1 1 42 19 350 19 37 6 14 426 – – 124        
11. Colonel Poor’s 1 1 – 6 7 5 1 1 1 1 1 22 15 294 77 20 23 177 531 – – – 1 – – 5
12. Colonel Varnum’s 1 – 1 6 7 5 1 1 1 1 1 16 17 241 53 – 11 88 393 – – 2        
13. Colonel Parsons’s 1 1 1 6 12 8 1 1 1 1 2 42 27 566 84 8 34 45 737 5 – 56 – – 7  
14. Colonel Hitchcock’s 1 – – 7 4 5 – 1 – 1 1 16 15 293 29 18 26 49 415 – – – – – – 1
15. Colonol Church’s 1 1 – 3 5 3 – – 1 – – 13 8 234 11 46 27 76 394 – – – – 1 2 2
16. Colonel Cotton’s 1 1 1 10 19 – 1 1 1 1 1 40 20 394 23 36 22 27 502 – – – – – 1  
17. Colonel Little’s – 1 – 6 16 – 1 1 1 1 1 23 15 340 21 41 15 102 519 – – – – – 3  
18. Colonel Danielson’s 1 1 1 11 19 – – 1 1 1 1 40 19 316 36 3 26 85 466 – – 84 – – 6 1
19. Colonel Mansfield’s – – – 6 16 – – – 1 1 1 27 15 290 34 35 24 108 491 – 1 9        
20. Colonel Reed’s, of Uxbridgo 1 1 1 7 14 – – 1 1 1 1 27 16 370 19 17 9 55 470 – 1 30 – – 4  
21. Colonel Glover’s – 1 – 5 13 – – 1 1 1 – 27 8 320 7 22 18 121 488 – 8 12 1 – – 1
22. Colonel Walker’s 1 1 1 6 15 – 1 1 1 1 1 28 15 311 36 31 22 18 418 – 1 82 – 1 5  
23. Colonel Whitcomb’s 1 1 1 7 16 – 1 1 1 1 1 32 12 369 50 21 23 49 512 – 7 – – – 1 –
24. Colonel Doolitlle’s 1 1 – 7 10 – 1 1 1 1 1 26 17 212 47 39 17 67 382 – 3 118 – – – 8
25. Colonel Woodbridge’s 1 1 – 8 17 – – 1 1 1 1 24 13 280 37 21 15 45 398 – 4 102 – 2 3  
26. Colonel Paterson’s 1 1 1 8 14 – 1 1 1 1 1 39 18 309 14 25 16 43 407 – – 93 – 2 2  
27. Colonel Bridge’s 1 – 1 8 20 – – 1 1 1 1 32 17 334 39 44 14 33 464 – – 36 – 2 2  
28. Colonel Sargent’s 1 – 1 5 15 – 1 – – 1 1 36 18 315 36 27 28 26 432 2 2 68        
29. Colonel Huntington’s 1 1 1 7 15 6 1 1 1 1 1 48 35 406 60 13 22 68 569 – – – – 1 10  
30. Colonel Scarnmons’s 1 1 – 8 12 – 1 1 – 1 1 34 16 377 25 5 18 29 454 – 1 46 – – 1 1
31. Colonel Phinney’s 1 1 1 8 15 – – 1 1 1 1 34 18 376 25 7 21 15 444 – – 56 – – 2  
32. Colonel Ward’s 1 1 – 9 17 – 1 1 1 1 1 40 17 352 25 17 11 45 450 – 3 50 – – – 1
33. Colonel Wylley’s 1 – – 3 16 8 1 1 1 1 2 50 26 499 133 9 47 128 816 1 3 70 – – 15  
34. Colonel Storrs’s 1 1 2 5 14 7 1 1 1 1 1 44 25 533 99 – 25 148 805 – – 60 – – 15  
35. Colonel Bailey’s 1 1 1 7 9 5 1 1 1 1 1 30 14 295 25 51 24 79 474 – – 26 – 1 2  
36. Colonel Greaton’s 1 1 1 10 20 – – 1 1 1 1 40 20 338 15 47 18 52 470 – – 30 – – 1  
37. Late Colonel Gardner’s – 1 1 6 13 – – 1 1 1 1 31 17 298 13 39 13 47 410 – – 90 – 2 3  
38. Late Colonel Gerrish’s – 1 1 10 19 – – 1 1 1 1 40 18 436 29 28 17 6 516 – 2          
39. Colonel Webb’s 1 1 1 10 16 10 1 1 1 1 1 47 26 445 19 35 2 43 544 – 4 22        
Four Companies Riflemen, from Va. and Md. – – – 3 9 – – – – – – 13 4 215 34 1 – 1 251 – – – – – – 2
Two Companies in Colonel Hinman’s Regiment,
and four Independent Companies.
 – 1 – 6 12 – – – – – – 24 12 394 – – – – 394              
Total 32 33 29 288 575 71 22 34 34 37 36 1298 690 13923 1476 952 746 2400 19497 9 42 1688 4 14 97 34

HORATIO GATES, Adjutant-General.

Inventory of Ordnance and Stores necessary for the pre sent Army, supposing it to consist of twenty thousand Men.

Cambridge, October 20, 1775.

Cannon, viz: 24 and 18 pounders, (battering cannon, ) 36; 12 and 9 pounders, 20; 6, 4, and 3 pounders, (small cannon and field-pieces, ) 40—total, 100—with carnages and implements complete.

Mortars, viz: 10 inch mortars, 6; 8 inch do., 2; 7 inch do., 2; 8 inch howitzers, 3—total, 13—with beds and carriages complete.

Gins, 6; platforms, complete, for guns, 100; platforms for mortars, 10; spare carriages for guns, 30; spare beds for mortars, 6; spare sponges, ladles, and rammers, 10 sets; round shot, for battering cannon, 5, 000; round and case shot, for smaller cannon, 10, 000; 10 inch shells, for mortars, 1, 200; 8 inch shells, for do., 1, 000; 7 inch shells, for do., 400; hand grenades, 2, 000; fuses for bombs and hand grenades; portfires; tin tubes.

Powder for cannon and mortars, 200 rounds, 1, 155 bar rels; do. for 20, 000 men, 120 rounds, or three pounds per man, 600 do.; do. for compositions and extraordinaries, 245 do.—total, 2, 000 barrels.

Lead for musketry, 15 tons; sheet lead, 3 do.—total, 18 tons.

Horses and harness, complete, 40.

Stores, viz: Intrenching tools, spare timber and plank, handspikes, beds and quoins, match, flints, saltpetre, brimstone, pitch and tar, turpentine, oil, beeswax, rosin, candles and tallow, sheepskins, canvass and packthread, needles, lanterns of sorts, powder measures, iron pots and kettles, flannel, tin and copper for ladles, travelling forge complete, bar iron, steel, nails and spikes, files, carpenters’ and wheelwrights’ tools, cordage of sorts, cod lines and marline, cotton for quick match, spirits of wine, budge-barrels and haversacks, painted canvass, tanned hides, tents, ammunition carts, cartridge paper, writing paper, two pairs of large hand bellows, brushes, glue, grind stones, scales and weights, surveying compass and chain, searces of sorts, sieves, one theodolite, one good telescope, one case of instruments.

Ordnance, Shot, and Shells, now in Camp.

Cannon: 24 pounders, 5; shot, 449. 18 pounders, 6; shot, 260. 12 pounders, 2; shot, 149. 9 pounders, 3; shot, 1, 175. 8 pounder, 1. 6 pounders, 2; 5 ¼ pounders, 4; shot, 1, 134. 4 pounders, 7; shot, 1, 475. 3 pounders, 9; shot, 3, 079. 2½ pounders, 2; shot, 1, 009. Total number of cannon, 41. Total number of shot, 8, 730. Carriages, ladles, rammers and sponges, &c., complete.

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