1. Huntington enclosed a congressional order dated 10 May and a memorial from Lt. Col. Udny Hay (both DLC:GW). The order referred the memorial to GW “with instructions to appoint a board of Officers to consider and determine upon the said memorial and make report to Congress” (see also 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 , 20:491–92). Hay’s petition, written at Philadelphia on 28 April, recounted his service record, which “gives unequivocal proofs of his attachment to the cause of Freedom, and America.” He then complained that Q.M. Gen. Timothy Pickering and Congress had caused him to lose “every privilege and emolument that he had reason to imagine himself entitled to” and requested that Congress “grant him such relief as in their wisdom shall appear just and reasonable, either by their own determination on the merits of his petition in the first instance; or by ordering a Board of General Officers to examine, and report thereon before a final resolution is enter’d into.” Hay concluded: “That his pay in proportion to the extent of business he has transacted, will be found much less than that of any other Officer in the same station” (see also 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 , 20:464).

2. The enclosed resolution adopted on 14 May “earnestly recommended” northern state executives to forward provisions (DLC:GW; see also 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 , 20:502).

3. One of the enclosures dated 15 May was a congressional order to have “the Board of Admiralty deliver to the Order of the Commander in Chief Ten of the heavy Cannon, imported for the Seventy four Gun Ship at Portsmouth for the Use of the Garrison at Rhode Island” (DLC:GW; see also 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 , 20:505). GW had requested these cannon (see his letter to Huntington, 8 May, and n.13).

The second enclosure listed five “Officers in the hospital department for the Southern Army” whom Congress had elected on 15 May, and it also provided terms for medical officers then “in captivity in South Carolina and Georgia and have the charge of the sick prisoners in those States” (DLC:GW; see also 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 , 20:506, and Huntington to Nathanael Greene, 24 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 , 17:266–67).

4. GW acknowledged this letter when he wrote Huntington on 27 May.