Return of provisions & stores deliver'd out of the Continental magazine in Providence : under the care of Solomon Southwick D.C.G.I to Adjutant commissaries of issues & for the use of the army in the Rhode Island department from April to September 1781 inclusive [A.D.S.]

Return of provisions & stores deliver'd out of the Continental magazine in Providence : under the care of Solomon Southwick D.C.G.I to Adjutant commissaries of issues & for the use of the army in the Rhode Island department from April to September 1781 inclusive [A.D.S.]

Providence 1781

[1] folded leaf ; 36 x 60 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1985.18.1

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At bottom left: Acct of this 6 months return / Charles Stewart Esq / Commissary General of Issues / Head quarters
At bottom right: Providence, September 30th 1781 / errors excepted / Sol.n Southwick/ D. C. Issues
In several columns, showing for each month to whom and where supplies were issued and in what quantities. Recipients were James Wallace in Providence, John Gardner in Newport, and Fenner & White in Providence, and "General orders & small parties, State of Rhode Island.
Supplies included flour, salt beef and pork, dry fish, rice, beans, peas, roots, rum (both New England and West Indian), soap, candles, salt, hard bread, pickled fish, corn and rye meal.
Portions of document missing at fold, affecting text.
Watermark: J Bassuet -- differs slightly from figure 81 in T. Gravell. Cat. of foreign watermarks, p. 44. In this present version, a chain line bisects the "U' in Bassuet.

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