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.”