1. Joseph Watkins of Pennsylvania was serving as commissary of ordnance stores at this time although the Continental Congress apparently did not officially appoint him to that capacity until 11 Nov. 1777 (see Watkins’s commission, that date, in DNA:PCC, item 78). Watkins resigned from the army in February 1779. Jonathan Gostelowe of Philadelphia served as assistant commissary of military stores with the rank of captain from 1 Aug. 1776 to 1 Feb. 1777, when he was promoted to commissary of military stores and to major. Gostelowe held that office at least until April 1780, and he was dismissed from the service for unknown reasons by 15 March 1782, the day that Congress read a memorial from him complaining about his dismissal (see JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 22:136). Thomas Butler of Baltimore began serving as Philadelphia’s public armorer in January 1777 (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 7:55). Butler moved his arms-repairing operations to Easton and to Carlisle, Pa., in the fall of 1777 (see Tench Tilghman to Butler, 19 Oct. 1777, DLC:GW). GW complained of Butler’s inaction in the department in March 1778 (see GW to Horatio Gates, 6 March 1778), and Butler was dismissed from the service the following month (see JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 10:380).