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Enclosure, 4 October 1776

Enclosure

[c.4 October 1776]

Table of Proposed Pay Increases for Officers

Present Pay Suppose intended Difference
1 Colonel £15    £ 25    £ 10    
1 Lieut. Colo. 12    20    8    
1 Major 10    15    5    
8 Capts. @ £8   64    £10    80    16    
16 Lieuts. 5.8 86.8  7.10 120    33.12 
8 Ensigns 4    32    6    48    16    
1 Chaplain 10    15    5    
1 Adjutant 5.10 10    4.10 
1 Qr Master 5.10 10    4.10 
1 Surgeon 10    15    5    
 Mate 4    7.10 3.10 
£111. 2.0

D, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DNA:PCC, item 152; copy, DNA:PCC, item 169. Congress’s secretary, Charles Thomson, mistakenly docketed this document: “Enclosed in his [GW’s] letter of the 25 Sept. 1776.”

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