1. This return has not been identified.

2. See Schuyler to John Pemberton, 17 May, in Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends , 7:89–90. John Pemberton (1727–1795), an influential Quaker preacher in Philadelphia who steadfastly opposed all wars whether against Indians or the British crown, replied to Schuyler on 21 May that a meeting of the city’s Quakers had considered his letter and had rejected his request on the grounds that supplying blankets to the Continental troops was a violation of their religious consciences because it involved them in preparations for war. In spite of Schuyler’s threat to use coercive measures against the Quakers, he returned a soft answer to Pemberton on 22 May (see ibid., 107–8). In early September 1777, as the British army approached Philadelphia, Pemberton and a number of other prominent Quakers in the city were arrested for their continuing opposition to the war and were sent to Winchester, Virginia. Pemberton was released the following April, and Tench Tilghman on 29 April 1778 signed a pass by GW’s command permitting Pemberton and three other Quakers to return unmolested to Philadelphia (see Pa. Mag., 39:221; see also Crane, Elizabeth Drinker Diary description begins Elaine Forman Crane et al., eds. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. 3 vols. Boston, 1991. description ends , 1:226–27, 303).

3. The Board of War’s report of 15 May concerning the northern department was read in Congress on that date, and action on it was postponed (see JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 7:364–65). For Congress’s resolutions of 22 May defining the department’s limits and directing Schuyler to take command of it, see ibid., 8:375, and Hancock to GW, 27 May.