1. See GW to Huntington, 16, 21, 24, and 28 June.

2. Huntington enclosed a document with two congressional resolutions adopted on 2 July. The first responded to GW’s plea in a letter to Huntington dated 24 June for “three hundred expert rifle men” from Pennsylvania “for the present Campaign. … Congress approve the said request and that his Excellency the President and Supreme executive Council of Pen[n]sylvania be informed that the United States in Congress Assembled will allow a deduction of a like number from the infantry militia required of the said State for the Southern service, and that whatever bounty they shall think proper to grant to this corps of troops shall be repaid to the State and the men shall be allowed pay, rations and compleat continental establishment equal to the other troops in the field during the time they are in service.” The second resolution ordered the Board of War to furnish GW’s table (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 , 20:714–16; the first letter from the Board of War to GW, this date, and n.3; and Huntington to Joseph Reed, 3 July, in Pa. Archives description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends , 1st Ser., 9:242–43).

In his reply to Huntington on 10–11 July, GW stressed the importance of the riflemen for operations against New York City (DNA:PCC, item 152).