Barrack utensils, 1775.

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Barrack utensils, 1775.

During the beginning of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, the Provincial Congress supplied Massachusetts troops through a Committee of Supplies, assisted by a commissary general and a quartermaster general. The latter was responsible for supplying the army for military operations. Series documents delivery of certain supplies under the auspices of the first quartermaster general, Joseph Pearse Palmer, appointed Apr. 30, 1775. The record itself was made by the self-described successor to Cambridge ordnance storekeeper Capt. Thomas Waite Foster, starting Apr. 24, the day Foster went to Watertown to care for the ordnance store there (see: Massachusetts. Committee of Supplies. Ordnance store records, 1775 ((M-Ar)2353X)). The record ends Aug. 1, 1775, two weeks before Gen. George Washington federalized the quartermaster post. The deliveries are to certain regiments in the army stationed at Cambridge; there are also a few entries for troops at Roxbury and in New Hampshire.

Partial v. (with: Massachusetts. Commissary General. Surgeons' orders for provisions, 1775 ((M-Ar)2325X))

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