State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 2d session, 1780 : An act for proportioning, upon the several towns within this state, the monthly supplies to be raised for the support of the army ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March session, 1781 : Whereas by an act of this Assembly passed at the session in January last, for apportioning to the several towns in this state, and for collecting fresh beef for supplying the army of the United States ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1782 : An act for granting and apportioning three thousand six hundred and twenty-six yards of tow-cloth ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1781 : Whereas by an act, passed at the present session, twelve hundred men of the militia are called forth to do duty within this state, for the space of four weeks ...
Published: (1781)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, August session, 1777 : It is voted and resolved, that the continental officers and soldiers, raised by this state, be supplied in camp with rum, sugar and coffee, at the prices affixed to those articles in the act against monopoly and oppression, passed by this Assembly at the second session held in Deemeber last, with the additional charge of transportation ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, November session, 1780 : An act for filling up and compleating this state's quota of the Continental Army.

In Congress, February 25, 1780 : Resolved, that the several states be called on forthwith to procure their respective quotas of supplies for the ensuing campaign, as follows, to wit ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives. November 13, 1780 : Resolved, that the select-men of each town ... are hereby required, to render ... a full account of all supplies furnished each soldier belonging to the Continental Army ...

Boston, [blank] 1780 : In pursuance of a vote of the town, passed the 16th of October, 1780, borrowed and received of [blank] the sum of [blank] of the new emission, to enable the town to comply with a requisition of the General Court ... to procure beef for the army ...
Published: (1780)

At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut : holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of October, 1780. : An act for collecting and storing a quantity of provisions, for the use of the Continental Army and the forces raised for the defence of this state.

At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut : holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781 : An act for raising supplies for the use of this state and the Continental Army, until the first day of January next.
Published: (1781)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, Dec. 4th, 1780 : Whereas by the resolutions of Congress of the fourth day of November last, the United States are required to furnish their respective proportions of specific supplies for the support of the army the ensuing year. ... therefore, resolved, that the inhabitants of the several towns ... are required to furnish a number of cattle ...
Published: (1780)

In Council, Philadelphia, June 1, 1780 : Sir, The Continental Army, upon which our prospects of safety and liberty so much depend, have, by various disappointments, been reduced to great distress for want of provisions ...

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, November session, 1780 : An act for granting and apportioning a tax of sixteen thousand pounds, in silver or gold; six thousand pounds ... due to the regiments ... and ten thousand pounds to be appropriated to the raising of this state's quota of the Continental Army.

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, June session, 1780 : An act for raising, and sending into the field, six hundred and ten men, to recruit the continental battalions raised by this state, under the command of Colonel Christopher Greene, and Colonel Israel Angell.

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 7, 1780 : Whereas by an act of this Assembly passed at the last session, six hundred and ten effective men were ordered to be raised within this state, by the first day of July inst. to recruit the continental battalions of this state ... Be it therefore enacted ... that the persons hereafter named, be ... directed to form all male persons .. into classes ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1780 : Whereas it will be necessary, in the settlement of the amount of the money due to the officers and soldiers belonging to this state, now in the continental battalions, on account of the depreciation of the currency ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 2d session, 1780 : Whereas notwithstanding the provision made in an act passed by this Assembly, at the last session, for bringing six hundred and ten men into the field, to recruit the continental battalions raised by this state, there appears, by the return of the adjutant-general, dated the twenty-first of this inst. July, to be the following deficiencies in the quotas of men heretofore assigned to the towns hereafter named, to wit.

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, December session, 1778 : Whereas great difficulties have arisen in supplying the officers and soldiers of the continental battalions raised by this state, with articles at the stated prices, by the committees of the several towns, pursuant to an act of this Assembly, heretofore passed ...
Published: (1778)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780 : Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. ...

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780 : Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. ...

An act and law made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of ... Connecticut : ... holden at New-Haven, on the second Thursday of October ... 1776. : An act to compel the furnishing necessary supplies and assistance to the quarter-master-general of the Continental Army.

Supplying Washington's Army /
by: Risch, Erna, 1904-1991
Published: (1981)

Supplying Washington's army /
by: Risch, Erna, 1904-1991
Published: (1981)

An act and law, made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, in America : holden at New-Haven, on the second Thursday of October, anno Domini, 1776. : An act to compel the furnishing necessary supplies, and assistance to the quarter-master-general of the Continental Army.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 29th, 1780 : Whereas by a resolve of the General Court, passed the 4th of May last, the agents appointed in the several counties in this state to receive from the towns ...

An act for supplying the Army with clothes, provisions, and waggons.
Published: (1781)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March session, 1781 : Whereas by an act of this assembly, passed at November session, apportioning three hundred and eight men ... to be raised ... resolved, that the committees of the delinquent towns ... make return of the persons by them detached ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1782 : Whereas great frauds have been committed, and the recruiting service greatly injured ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March 1, 1782 : An act for raising two hundred and fifty-nine men, to make up the full quota of this state's forces in the army of the United States.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, March 13, 1778 : Whereas the army are in present and pressing want of shoes, stockings and shirts, which cannot be immediately supplied from the public stores; this Court now apply ...

We the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and inlist ourselves, as soldiers, in the battalion ordered to be raised by the General Assembly of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations ... on the third Monday in July, 1780 ...
Published: (1780)

Fish-kill, December 22, 1781 : The subscribers inform the gentlemen of the army, that they have contracted with the Honorable Robert Morris, Esquire, superintendant of the finances of the United States, to supply the post of West-Point and its dependencies, with rations for the year 1782 ...
Published: (1781)

Office of Finance, Philadelphia, 12th December, 1781 : Proposals will be received in this office until the first day of February next, for the following contracts, to supply the rations deliverable by the United States ...
Published: (1781)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, May session, 1781 : Whereas the legislature of this state, from a conviction of the absolute necessity of having their quota of troops in the field, apportioned the men to the several towns ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. At a meeting of the General Committee : appointed to act in recess of the General Assembly, convened at Providence, in said state, the 11th day of December, A.D. 1776. Resolved, that all the troops which now are, or may be raised ... for the defence of this state ... shall be under the same rules and regulations as the Continental Army.

To the inhabitants of the states of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey and Delaware : The good people of the state of Pennsylvania, and particularly those in the vicinity of the camp, expressed a desire of furnishing the army with the produce of the country were markets regularly established for that purpose ... on the second Monday in February, at eight o'clock in the morning, the market will be opened ...