General return of provisions & stores received at the different posts & magazines in the Northern Department ...

General return of provisions & stores received at the different posts & magazines in the Northern Department ...

General return of provisions and stores

[S.l.] 1780

1 folded leaf ; 60 cm. (double fol.)

MSS L1973.156ff

Signed at bottom: Charles Stewart / Commissary General of Issues ; ... Enoch Leonards returns 1.340 pounds India[n corn?] was delivered & receipted for as flour.
Includes a list of posts and magazines in the Northern Dept.: Fort George, Fort Howard, Albany, Saratoga, Fort Schuyler, Fort Herkimer, fort Edward, Fort Plank, Schenctady, Bennington, Rutland, Charlestown, and Haverhill.
Includes names of issuing commisary officers at the specified locations.
Five tables: Provisions & stores received; Provisions & stores issued; Provisions & stores forwarded from one po[st] and mag[azine] to another; Provisions & stores inspected & condemned imbezzled, lost, destroyed or sold ...; and Provisions and stores remaining on hand ... : Provisions listed include flour, meal, bread, cattle, salt beef, pork, fish, salt, soap, candles, rum, molasses, rice, peas, beans, potatoes, tallow, and hides.
Gray was Deputy Commisary-General of Issues as of 19 Oct. 1778 -- Heitman
Enoch Leonard is listed on the return as issuing commissary at Ft. Schulyer
Separated at folds, affecting some text
See also similar returns for May 1779 (MSS L2020F28ff); June 1779 (MSS L1995F43f).
Oversized

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