Enclosure: Colonel Richard Gridley’s Estimate of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 20 October 1775
Enclosure
Colonel Richard Gridley’s Estimate of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores
[20 October 1775]
Inventory of Ordnance & Stores necessary for the present Army Supposing it to Consist of Twenty Thousand men.
Cannon vizt
pounders | 24 | Battering Cannon | 36 | ||
& 18 | |||||
12 | Cannon | 20 | |||
& 9 | |||||
6 | Small Cannon & Field pieces |
44 | |||
4 | |||||
3 | |||||
100 | |||||
with Carriages & Implemts Compleat |
Mortars vizt
Inches | 10 | 6 | |
8 | 2 | ||
7 | 2 | ||
8 Inch Howitz. | 3 | ||
13 | |||
with Beds & Carriags Compleat |
Gins | 6 | ||||||||
platforms Compleat | 100 | for Guns | |||||||
platforms for mortars | 10 | ||||||||
Spare | |||||||||
Carriages for Guns | 30 | ||||||||
Beds for mortars | 6 | ||||||||
Sponges Ladles ramrs | 10 | Setts | |||||||
Shott | |||||||||
Round for Batterg Cannon | 5 | thousand | |||||||
round & Case for Smallr | 10 | Thousd | |||||||
Shells for mortars | |||||||||
|
1,200 | ||||||||
1,000 | |||||||||
400 | |||||||||
Hand Grenades | 2,000 | ||||||||
Fuzes for Bombs & Hand Grenades | |||||||||
Port Fires1 | |||||||||
Tin Tubes | |||||||||
Powder | |||||||||
For Cannon & mortars 200 rounds | 1155 | ||||||||
For 20 Thousd men 120 rounds or 3 lb. ⅌ man | 600 | ||||||||
For Compositions and Extraordinarys | 245 | ||||||||
2,000 | Barrels | ||||||||
Lead | |||||||||
For musketry | 15 | Tons | |||||||
Sheet Lead | 3 | ||||||||
18 | Tons | ||||||||
Horses & Harness Compleat | 40 |
Stores Vizt Intrenching Tools, Spare Timber & plank, Handspikes Beds & Coins, Match, Flints, Salt petre, Brimstone, Pitch & Tar, Turpentine, Oyl, Beeswax, Rozin, Candles & Tallow, Sheep Skins, Canvass & packthread, Needles, Lanthorns of Sorts, Powder Measures, Iron potts & Kettles, Flannel, Tin & Copper for Ladles, Travelling Forge Compleat, Barr Iron, Steel, Nails & Spikes, Files, Carpenters & wheelwrights Tools, Cordage of Sorts, Codlines & Marlin, Cotton for Quick Match, Spirits of Wine, Budge Barrels2 & Haversacks, Painted Canvas, Tann’d Hides, Tents, Ammunition Carts, Cartridge paper, Writing paper, 2 pair of Large hand Bellows, Brushes, Glue, Grindstones, Scales & Weights, Surveying Compass & Chain, Searces3 of Sorts, Sieves, 1 Theodolite, 1 Good Telescope, 1 Case of Instruments
Ordnance, Shott & Shells now in Camp
Pounders | Cannon | Shott | ||
24 | 5 | 449 | ||
18 | 6 | 260 | ||
12 | 2 | 149 | ||
9 | 3 | 1175 | ||
8 | 1 | |||
6 | 2 | 1134 | ||
5¼ | 4 | |||
4 | 7 | 1475 | ||
3 | 9 | 3079 | ||
2½ | 2 | 1009 | ||
41 | 8730 | |||
Carriages Ladles ramrs & Sponges &c. Compleat | ||||
Inches | Mortars | Shells | ||
10 | 3 | 374 | ||
8 | 2 | 452 | ||
8 | Howitz. | 3 | ||
7 | Brass | 2 | 641 | |
mortars | ||||
10 | 1467 | |||
With Beds, Carriages & Implements Compleat. whole barrels |
Powder
Lead
AD, DNA: RG 93, Manuscript File, no. 20717; AD, DNA:PCC, item 58; copy, DNA:PCC item 169.
1. Portfires, used in firing artillery, consisted of small paper cases filled with niter, sulfur, and meal powder.
2. Budge barrels were used to carry gunpowder from magazines to batteries.
3. Sieves or strainers.