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Enclosure: Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances for New Jersey Magazines, 29 October 1776

Enclosure

Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances
for New Jersey Magazines

[c.29 October 1776]

An Estimate of the Magazines to be laid in at the following Posts for the Subsistance1 of the Troops and for the Horses in Waggons and Artillery.

	bbl Flour	Beef & Pork	Tons of Hay	Bushl Grain
2000 Men at Fort Lee for Five Months	3100	3100	300	10000
At Hackinsack for the Use of the Hospital2 allowing fresh Provisions to supply the rest	1000	300	150	1500
At Equacanaugh [Acquacknack] to furnish the Troops at Elizabeth Town and Newark and to subsist the Main Army in passing to Philadelphia	3000	3000	300	10000
At Springfield a Weeks Provision for 20000 Men on their Way to Philadelphia	700	700	50	1500
At Boundbrook the Same	700	700	50	1500
At Prince Town the Same	700	700	50	1500
At Trentown to subsist 20000 Men for three Months	3000	3000	300	10000
	12200	11500	1200	36000

N.B.	From Fort Lee to Hackinsack by new Bridge3	9	Miles	Water Carriage from this place
	from Hackinsack to Equacanaugh	5	Miles	Do
	from Equacanaugh to Springfield	16	Miles	7 Miles to a Landing at Newark
	from Springfield to Boundbrook	19	Miles	7 Miles to a Landing at Brunswick
	from Boundbrook to princetown	20	Miles	12 Miles Land Carriage to Daleware River
	from Prince Town to Trentown	12	Miles.	Water Carriage to Philadelphia

N.B. In the above calculation an Allowance is made for Supplying the Troops passing and Repassing from the different States.

N. Greene

DS, DLC:GW.

1. The copyist inadvertently wrote “Subsistancee” on the manuscript.

2. On orders from GW Dr. John Morgan recently had set up a general hospital at Hackensack to care for sick and wounded Continental soldiers (see Morgan, Vindication description begins John Morgan. A Vindication of His Public Character in the Station of Director-General of the Military Hospitals, and Physician in Chief to the American Army; Anno, 1776. Boston, 1777. description ends , xxii-xxiii, xxx-xxxi, 15–16, 46–47, 142–43).

3. New Bridge was on the Hackensack River about two miles north of the town of Hackensack.

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Title: Enclosure: Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances for New Jersey Magazines, 29 October 1776
Author: Greene, Nathanael
Date: 29 October 1776

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Cite as: “Enclosure: Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances for New Jersey Magazines, 29 October 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-07-02-0036-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 7, 21 October 1776–5 January 1777, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 48–49.]