1General Orders, 24 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Regiments are ordered to be brigaded as follows. First Brigade under the Command of Brigdr Genl Heath[.] Learnard’s. Read’s. Prescot’s. Bailey’s and Baldwins. Second Brigade under the Command of Brigd. Genl Spencer. Parsons’s. Huntington’s. Arnold’s. Ward’s. and Wyllys. Third Brigade under the Command of Brig: Genl Sullivan. Hand’s. Reads. Nixon’s. Stark’s. and Webb’s. Fourth Brigade under...
2From George Washington to the New York Committee of Safety, 24 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
It being necessary that I shou’d know the number of Troops to Compose the Army here, I must request the favour of your Honourable body to inform me how many Regiments are raising in this province for the Continental service by order of Congress, & what their state is as to men and arms. From the accounts I have had, I have reason to fear there is a great deficiency in the latter; which at a...
3From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have this Day Granted a Warrant unto Captain Jacobus Wynkoop for two hundred seventy Six & two thirds Dollars, being for a Months Advance to him his Officers & Men who are to serve on the Lakes, at the Rates following. Captain 32 Dollars 32 three Mates 15 Do 45 One Boatswain do 15 Two Boatswains Mates @ 9⅓ 18⅔ Twenty Seamen @ 8 160 One Do @ 6 6 276⅔
4From George Washington to Samuel Tucker, 24 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Readiness shewn by the Committee of safety for the Province of New Jersey to succour this Place with their Millitia on a late Occasion when they were at my Request called upon by Brigadier General The Earl of Stirling and the Alacrity with which I am Informed the Millitia then stepped forward in Defence of their Country are Sufficient Proofs of the Important Service the province of New...