A return of the present state of the first Maryland brigade, with the number of nine month men, the number inlisted for three years and the number to inlist as also the quantity of cloathing at present in use and the quantity that will be wanting to compleat said brigade on the approach of winter, 9th Septemr. 1778

A return of the present state of the first Maryland brigade, with the number of nine month men, the number inlisted for three years and the number to inlist as also the quantity of cloathing at present in use and the quantity that will be wanting to compleat said brigade on the approach of winter, 9th Septemr. 1778

[White Plains, N.Y.?] 1778

[1] leaf ; 21 x 34 cm.

MSS L1992.1.41 M

Ms. tabular document signed: W. Smallwood
Brigade divided into 4 regiments, then shows the "Cloaths wanted on the apporaoch of winter - Coats, Jacketts, Breeches, Shirts, Stocking ..."
Since the First Maryland Brigader was attached to the main army, this document was likely written near White Plains, N.Y. & probably for the use of Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene in his planning for the upcoming winter
Note at right bottom indicated further need: 309 men were "detained at Philadelphia by order Genl. Arnold, who are not returned either in the State of the Brigade, as for Cloathing, so that ther will be an addition of 309 men to the Brigade, & three Hundred & Nine Suits of Cloth, more than what is returned for, wanting, as I am Inform'd they have none but Summer Cloathing; whether the above detachment of what number of them are Substitutes, drafts, Nine Months men, during the War of three years cannot be at present ascertained, but they are ordered to join their respective Regts. by genl. Smallwood he having obtained His Excellency General Washington's Permission ..."
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