Issuing books, 1778-1791.

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Issuing books, 1778-1791.

Series records receipt and delivery of supplies, but is incomplete, comprising here two volumes designated as nos. 3 and 4. Information includes date of delivery, requestor, and authorizer, and quantity delivered by commodity.

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Rainsford Island Hospital.

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Massachusetts. Commissary General

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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...