1. The committee’s recommendation probably was verbal; no letter from the committee to GW on this subject has been found.

2. GW wrote Brig. Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons from headquarters at Springfield on this date: “You will be pleased to repair immediately to the State of Connecticut and take upon you the superintendance of receiving and forwarding the drafts of that State to the Army. I do not know the place appointed for their rendezvous, but as soon as you have made yourself acquainted with it, you will give notice to all the Officers who are in Connecticut upon the reccruiting service to meet you at the place of rendezvous, from whence you will send them off to West point with divisions of the Drafts under their charge—I shall direct a Feild Officer (in case the Line should not be there) to attend at West point, to receive the Men and keep them together untill an equal and just distribution can be made of them among the Regiments. You will be pleased to attend carefully to the condition of the Men—should any have been passed by the State Commissioners who are not fit for the service, you are to reject them, and note the names of the persons and the causes of rejection.

“As I would wish to have these Men at West point as expeditiously as possible, you will send them forward in divisions of twenty five or thirty—should no more be ready.

“I shall expect to hear from you upon your arrival in Connecticut and after you have made yourself somewhat acquainted with the state of Matters there” (Df, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW; see also GW to Jedediah Huntington, 21 June, and to Robert Howe, 27 June). Parsons wrote GW from Hartford on 24 June.

3. Hamilton inadvertently wrote “Conmittee.”

4. On this date, the committee wrote Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., that Parsons was “fully acquainted with the numbers, situation, and wants of our Army, and the indispensible necessity for the states immediately filling their Continental Regiments … and of forwarding the quota of Militia and supplies allotted to the states, agreable to the requisitions of this Committee.” The committee asked the governor “to pay the earliest attention to his representations on these important subjects; and to give him every aid in your power to effect the matters committed to his charge by the Commander in Chief” (DLC:GW; see also Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends , 15:352).