1. GW had written Pickering from headquarters on 30 April: “I enclose to you a Letter for Major General Parsons; in which I have mentioned the return of a Detachment of about 80 Continental Troops, now at Danbury, and have suggested their being employed as an Escort to the Provisions to be forwarded from thence. The Commanding Officer will have Orders to afford every possible assistance to facilitate the transportation, and I must desire you will make use of the occasion to the best & most extensive advantage” (LS, in David Humphreys’s writing, DNA: RG 93, manuscript file no. 25417; Df, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW; GW signed the cover of the LS, which is docketed “recd May 1”). For the enclosure, see GW to Samuel Holden Parsons, 30 April, found at Parsons to GW, 20 April, n.4. Col. Samuel Blachley Webb received instructions to provide the escort from Danbury, Conn. (see Parsons to Webb, 7 May, in Ford, Webb Correspondence and Journals description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed. Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb. 3 vols. New York, 1893–94. description ends , 2:336–37).

2. Pickering’s letter to Ralph Pomeroy, deputy quartermaster general for Connecticut, has not been identified. Pomeroy had sought ox teams for several weeks (see Pomeroy to GW, 8 April, n.2; see also GW to Pickering, 29 April, n.9).

3. The previous Saturday was 28 April. For Pomeroy’s efforts to transport meat to the army, see his letter to GW, 14 April. Later in May, Pomeroy complained that he was “destitute of money and unable to procure forage for teams to transport provisions necessary for the immediate supply of the army,” which prompted the legislature to adopt a measure that called upon selectmen in the towns to assist in procuring forage (Conn. Public Records description begins The Public Records of the State of Connecticut … with the Journal of the Council of Safety … and an Appendix. 23 vols. to date. Hartford, 1894–. description ends , 3:395–96).