1. Since “there is not a sufficient supply of Ammunition, at present, in the Magazine of this State, And as it may be impracticable to procure a Quantity by purchase, in season to answer any sudden emergency,” the New Jersey legislature resolved on this date that Livingston “be requested immediately to apply to His Excellency General Washington on behalf of the State, and to request him to give directions for the delivery of Thirty thousand Musket Catridges of different sizes out of the Continental Magazine, if the same can conveniently be spared for the use of the Troops now stationed on the lines” (DLC:GW; see also N.J. Council Proc., 15 May–6 Oct. 1781 description begins A Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative-Council of the State of New-Jersey, In General Assembly convened at Princeton, on Tuesday the fifteenth Day of May, and on Wednesday the nineteenth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-one. Being the second and third Sittings of the fifth Session. Trenton, 1781. description ends , pp. 11, 13–15, and N.J. Gen. Assembly Proc., 15 May–28 June 1781 description begins Votes and Proceedings of the Fifth General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, At a Session begun at Trenton on the 24th Day of October, 1780, and continued by Adjournments. Being the second Sitting. Trenton, 1781. description ends , pp. 24, 29).

2. GW replied to Livingston on 9 June; see also GW to Henry Knox, 8 June, and n.2.