1. See Heath to GW, 9, 10 (two letters), and 11 April.

2. GW refers to Capt. Isaac Pope (see General Orders, 19 April, and n.3 to that document).

3. For troop quotas and Massachusetts regiments in the Continental army’s new establishment, see General Orders, 1 Nov. 1780, and n.5 to that document; see also the general orders for 3 Sept. 1780 and 22 April 1781.

4. New York governor George Clinton’s order went to Capt. Jonathan Paulding Horton (see GW’s first letter to Clinton, 7 April, and the source note to that document).

5. John Cochran, director of military hospitals, wrote N.J. delegate Abraham Clark, chairman of the medical committee, from New Windsor on 30 April that on 5 April he “was taken with a Pleurisy which has confined me till yesterday and has left me very weak” (Saffron, Cochran description begins Morris H. Saffron. Surgeon to Washington: Dr. John Cochran, 1730-1807. New York, 1977. description ends , 112–13).

6. Heath wrote Charles McKnight, chief hospital physician, from West Point on 13 April: “Colonel Scammell who Commands at the New Hampshire Hutts represented to me a few Days Since that the Patients under inoculation for the Small pox, were not well supplied with Hospital Stores, I laid their case before his Excellency the Commander in Chief and requested that the director General might spare a part of the Stores brought from Danbury, on this occasion, His Excellency was pleased to write me the last Evening … I yesterday visited the Hutts, and find that Several articles are much wanted for the Comfort of the Patients in particular Sugar or Millasses or both, Indian meal of which their present Supply is inadequate, and if Possible a Little wine as the Docts. informed me with Some few patients it was indispensibly necessary, I know my Dear Sir your embarrassments, and how much you are Straitned for Stores, but if you have it in your power to afford relief in any or all the before mentioned articles and any other which you think expedient I know your humanity will prompt you with much pleasure to do it, the Brave Lads who will be benifited by it deserve every aid that can be afforded, I shall [take] particular care if possible to have them supplied with Fresh Beef” (MHi: Heath Papers; see also Heath to GW, 25 March).

McKnight replied to Heath from Fishkill, N.Y., on 19 April that he received his letter “last Evening, and had I rec[e]ived it sooner, it would have been equally impossible for me to have complied with the Requisition contained therein … The Idea that has been formed of the Quantity of Stores rec[e]ived from Danbury has far exceeded the Reality, and it is with sincere Concern that I now inform you of the greater Part of them being already consumed.” McKnight added that he only could send a small amount of “Indian Meal” (MHi: Heath Papers; see also General Orders, 19 April).

Heath wrote in his memoirs for 12 April that he “visited the patients who were under inoculation with the small-pox, when 500 were turned out and drawn up; all of them were then under the operation, and in a fine way” (Wilson, Heath’s Memoirs description begins Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. 1798. Reprint. New York, 1904. description ends , 295). He then wrote in his memoirs for 26 April: “Many of the soldiers, who had gone through the small-pox, joined their regiments the next day: of 500 who had been inoculated, four only had then died” (Wilson, Heath’s Memoirs description begins Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. 1798. Reprint. New York, 1904. description ends , 296).