Return of ox teams in the C[ontinental] Army under the com[mand?] of Major Genl. William Heath containing there [sic] loss and the time when dismist [sic] and with what cond[ucto]r ... 3 Dec. 1781

Return of ox teams in the C[ontinental] Army under the com[mand?] of Major Genl. William Heath containing there [sic] loss and the time when dismist [sic] and with what cond[ucto]r ... 3 Dec. 1781

3 Dec. 1781

[1] leaf ; 125 x 43 cm.

MSS L1994.1.92

Haffield White served in the commissary department under Timothy Pickering.
Conductors were soldiers taken from the Continental line to serve as overseers.
Poor condition, with loss at exterior edges; repaired Dec. 1994 by John Hyltoft.
Stored as a roll
Apparently an accounting required by the Quartermaster General to justify payment to wagoners and others for transporting supplies for the Yorktown campaign. For background details, see Risch, Erna. Supplying Washington's army (1981), pp. 89-96. (Xerox copy in case file.)
Lists by name more than 100 teamsters employed by the army and dismissed between 18 Nov. and 1 Dec. 1781. In columnar form, document also lists draught horses, oxen, carts, yokes, chains, conductors' names, and remarks, most notably the number of animals lost "for want of forage" or strayed.
Officers mentioned include Major Campbell and Col. Jemmison [i.e. John Jameson?]
Places mentioned include Fishkill, Peekskill, Verplanks Point, West Point, Danbury, Sugar Loaf, and Philipsburgh.
"N.B. Saml. Jones & David Carrier who have acted as Condrs. in the Eastern army ... have conducted in such a Scandlous manor by living [sic] the Service with out Leive [sic] as to [m---] them of pay for thair Service which was but trifling [signed] H. White Capt & D[y W?]M Cont. Army

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