1. This letter from GW to Phillips has not been found.

2. Edward William Kiers (died c.1787) was then the assistant quartermaster stationed at Smiths Clove, New York. His homestead property at the south end of Haverstraw, N.Y., included that town’s only commercial dock in use during the Revolutionary War. Kiers served as captain of the Haverstraw Company in the Orange County, N.Y., militia in February 1776. By October 1777, he had become assistant quartermaster at Shawangunk, in Ulster County, N.Y. (see Hastings and Holden, Clinton Papers, description begins Hugh Hastings and J. A. Holden, eds. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777–1795, 1801–1804. 10 vols. 1899–1914. Reprint. New York, 1973. description ends 2:462–63). Kiers held the same position at King’s Ferry in October 1780 when GW ordered him to testify at the court-martial of Joshua Hett Smith, an alleged conspirator with Benedict Arnold (see Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 6:355, and GW to Nathanael Greene or Commanding Officer at West Point, 16 Oct. 1780, MHi: Heath Papers). For Kiers’s testimony, largely supportive of Smith, on 20 Oct., see Dawson, Trial of Joshua Hett Smith, description begins Henry B. Dawson, ed. Record of the Trial of Joshua Hett Smith, Esq., for Alleged Complicity in the Treason of Benedict Arnold, 1780. Morrisania, N.Y., 1866. description ends 101–3.

3. Q.M. Gen. Nathanael Greene wrote Kiers from West Point on 28 July 1779 that he must accelerate the movement of supplies to Smiths Clove and that GW did not want a large magazine at Pompton, N.J., because of its vulnerability to a British attack (see Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 4:279).