Enclosure: Estimate of Army Expenses, 25 December 1775

Enclosure

Estimate of Army Expenses

[c.25 December 1775]

A Gross Calculation of the Sum wanted to pay off the Army upon the Old establishment & to pay One Months pay advance to the New Established Regiments, with other necessary Contingent and Incidental Charges.

To the pay of 34 Old Regiments for the Months of October, November & Decemr, Averaged a[t] 3500£ each Regiment	£	119000
To the Regiment of Artillery for the same time		3960
To the pay 27 Regimts, New Establishmt, for the Month of January at 1618:12 each		43502
To the Regiments of Artillery for January		1979	:16
To 1376 Dollars advanced each of the New Corps to purchase Blankets		11145	:15
To a Company of Artificers for 4 Months		880	: 8
To purchase of Arms for the New Regiments		15500
To the pay of 5000 Militia for Six weeks		20000
To the demands of the Commissary Generl		50000
To Ditto of the Quarter Master General		5000

To 4 Months expence of Genl Hospital estimated at		4000
To Do of the General & Staff Officers estimated at		3260	:16
Lawfull money	£	278228	:15
£278,228:15 reduced to Dollars amount to		927429	:16

N.B. the five Connecticut Regiments upon the Old establishment, are not Included in the above Account, they being gone Home & will be cleared off by the Colony.

LB, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

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Title: Enclosure: Estimate of Army Expenses, 25 December 1775
Author: Washington, George
Date: 25 December 1775

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Cite as: “Enclosure: Estimate of Army Expenses, 25 December 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0560-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 603–604.]