Enclosure I: Joseph Trumbull’s Estimate of Commissary Expenses, 7–12 October 1775
Enclosure I
Joseph Trumbull’s Estimate of Commissary Expenses
[7–12 Oct. 1775]
An Estimate of the Cost of Such Articles for the Support of an American Army, consisting of 22,000 Men from the 10th October 1775 to the 10th May 1776, being 7 Months; as fall within the Department of the Commissary General
| 25,000 | barrels Flour | 44/ | £55,000 |
| 12,000 | barrels Pork | 65/ | 39,000 |
| 1,000 | barrels Salted Beef | 50/ | 2,500 |
| 22,000 | lb. Fresh Beef 3 days in a Week | 25/ ⅌ Ct | 29,100 |
| 200 | barrels Beer or Cyder ⅌ day | 5/ | 10,500 |
| 22,000 | pints Milk ⅌ day | @ 1d. | 19,150 |
| 28,000 | bushels Peas or Beans | 6/ | 8,400 |
| 6 | oz. Butter ⅌ Man ⅌ Week | 8d. ⅌ lb. | 10,080 |
| 2 | Gallons Vinegar ⅌ Man ⅌ Week | 10,000 | |
| 100 | Hhds N[ew] E[nglan]d Rum | 1,250 | |
| Hospital Stores uncertain—Say | |||
| 30 | Pipes Teneriff Wine | 900 | |
| 100 | Casks Raisons | 50/ | 250 |
| 100 | barrels Oat Meal | 200 | |
| £186.330 | |||
| add Contingencys | 13,670 | ||
| £200,000 | |||
I compute the Pork, as drove to Camp; if bo’t in the Country, the Transportation will Cost 20/ ⅌ barel more—in the whole £12,000—Beer & Cyder, Vinegar, Wine, Raisons and Oatmeal, & 50 Hhds Rum, already Purchased
Jos: Trumbull
Copy in Thomas Mifflin’s writing, DNA:PCC, item 152; copy, DNA:PCC item 169. Joseph Trumbull received the request for this estimate on 7 October. See Joseph Reed to Joseph Trumbull, 5 Oct., quoted in GW to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 5 Oct., n.3, and Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., to GW, 9 Oct. 1775.