1. To ascertain the status of Lewis Garanger, GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton wrote Brig. Gen. Henry Knox on 27 June: “Mr Garanger has waited upon the General to know decisively his fate. He renounces all ideas of command or rank in the corps of Artillery and asks only a brevet of Captain in the army. The simple question is—can he be employed usefully or not in the present state and temper of the corps? If not, I shall be obliged to you to inform him so, with a line either to the General or myself, informing how the matter stands” (Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 2:84).

Knox’s reply to Hamilton, written at “Mr Ellisons Juni[o]rs House” on 28 June, reads: “Mr Garanger having positively renounced all claims to rank or command in the Corps of artillery, it is my opinion that he can be Employed in the Corps in a manner honorable to himself, and useful to the service. There can be no objection to his receiving a brevet of a Captaincy in the army” (DNA:PCC, item 78; see also Board of War to GW, 11 June, and n.1 to that document, and GW to the Board of War, 27 July).

2. An undated draft of this enclosure, in the writing of GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison, is headed “General Arrangement of the Officers in the New York line from the Colonels to the Captains Inclusive” (DLC:GW).

3. The enclosed arrangements for Pennsylvania officers have not been identified.

4. Congress accepted the resignations of Col. Henry Beekman Livingston on 13 Jan. and Col. Lambert Cadwalader on 22 Jan. (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 13:58, 100). Col. Frederick Weissenfels replaced Livingston as commander of the 4th New York Regiment, and Col. William Butler replaced Cadwalader as commander of the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment.

5. Walter Stewart’s appointment as an aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates apparently dated from 26 May 1776 (see Pa. Archives, description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends 5th ser., 2:126; see also General Orders, 7 June 1776). Stewart became colonel of the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment in July 1778.

George Tudor (d. 1795) served as a lieutenant in the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment from January 1776 until his promotion to captain that June to fill the vacancy created upon Stewart’s promotion. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, N.Y., on 16 Nov. 1776 and exchanged in May 1778. His commission as captain in the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment dated from 13 June 1776. Tudor became major of the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment in April 1780 and retired from the army in January 1781. While in Philadelphia to settle his army accounts, Tudor wrote a memorial to Congress on 26 March 1781 in which he stated that “after spending five Years of the best of his Life; and Sinking the Little All he had in the World; [he] is now left destitute of Money” (DNA:PCC, item 41; see also 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 19:391–92).

6. GW is referring to Maj. Evan Edwards of the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment.