Revolutionary War bills, 1777-1785

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Revolutionary War bills, 1777-1785

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700942943

Series includes bills for military support expenses such as carting and storage of food, rum, wood, metal supplies, baking of bread, labor, wharfage, sailmaking, boatwork, cooperage, carpentry, collecting blankets, clerk wages for state store, armorer services, and gunwork. Bills also include wood and carpentry expenses for the care and maintenance of various lighthouses.

0.35 cubic ft. (1 doc. box)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8003788

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Continental Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m6x5k (corporateBody)

In response to the expansion of the Continental Army the number of staff was increased and reorganized in 1776. Changes included the creation of a new unit to supplement George Washington's personal staff. This special unit, the Commander in Chief's Guard, was formed on March 12, 1776 with Captain Caleb Gibbs (formerly adjutant of the 14th Continental Regiment and appointed Aid to Major General Greene) as commander. The unit protected Washington, the army's cash, and official papers. ...

Massachusetts. Commissary General

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km3b2g (corporateBody)

During the Revolutionary period, Massachusetts provided medical services to the military beginning in 1775, when the Committee of Safety votedin February that Dr. Joseph Warren and Dr. Benjamin Church form a committee to inventory military needs, and on Apr. 29 empowered Dr. Isaac Foster to remove sick and wounded soldiers to a Cambridge hospital. On May 8, the Second Provincial Congress resolved that commanding officers recommend surgeons for their regiments to be approved by a committee of doc...