Public Store - Fredericksburg Station, 1775-1783.

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Extent: 1 v. (163 p.) and .45 cubic feet.

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Provisions and Stores Issued, 1780, contains entries of supplies issued to Virginia regiments (1st, 2nd and 3rd), Col. Armand's independent legion, laborers then on furlough and discharged to Maryland divisions, Militia marching to the Southard, Major Mitchell, General Muhlenburg, the staff department, the Continental Hospital, Light Dragoons, and British prisoners, among others. Species and Quantities of Provision Received at Fredericksburg Station in the Southern Department and Provisions Received by Edward Herndon.

Columns include date issued, number of orders, by whom ordered, number of rations, and quantity of beef, meal, mutton, rum, whiskey, salt, soap, molassas, tallow, flour, bacon, beer, rice, fish and vinegar. (Accession 54314)

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Papers, 1775-1783 include accounts, certificates, correspondence, invoices, lists, memoranda, receipts, returns, and warrants. Orders and receipts, 1775-1783, includes accounts, correspondence, orders and receipts for furnishing goods from the Public Store. Goods include food items (bacon, coffee, molasses, pork, sugar, tea); clothing and personal items (belts, blankets, breeches, buckles, buttons, canvas, cloth, combs, hose, flannel, linen, needles, shirts, shoes, stockings, thread), office supplies (account books, ink, quills, wafers, writing paper); spirits (rum, whiskey, wine); and tools and building materials (augers, axes, chisels, glue, grindstone, locks, nails, rope, saws). Goods were supplied to the Board of War, Clerks of Assembly, Clothier General, and Council, as well as to apothecaries, barracks, garrisons, hospitals, lead mines, officers, regiments, ships, surgeons).

Orders are generally from the Board of War and include the name of the intended recipient, affiliation, and items to be furnished or delivered, and often include and payment information on the reverse.

Some other specific items include the Accounts of William Aylett, 1775; Memorandum of tools for the artificer at Portsmouth, 1779 July; Receipt of Col. Fontaine for the Regiment of Guards at Charlottesville, 1779 Aug; General Necessary Roll for the Detachment of the State Artillery at Portsmouth, 1779 Aug 6; Return of Clothing for the Volunteer Detachment in the Southwest, 1780 Feb; List of debts against the Commanders and Staff Officers of the Virginia Lines taken 1782 Dec; List of Aylett's expenses on his journey to Philadelphia, undated. There are also specific orders and receipts related to receiving and furnishing provision to the army at Hobb's Hole, as well as correspondence related to the appointment of a person to carry out these duties.

These papers also include orders and receipts that document the use of enslaved labor: Order to Capt. Maxwell for a negro employed in the Chickahominy Shipyard, 1779 Aug 5; Order to furnish Mr. Cole for his two negroes Jack and Ned waistcoats, breeches, shirts, shoes and stockings, 1779 Sep 14; Order for clothing to be supplied to 25 negroes employed in the garrison, 1779 Sep 24; Order regarding George Eubank's negro Davey, 1779 Oct 11; Order regarding the use of a negro hired of William Steptoe employed on the Mayflower, 1779 Oct 20; and an Order related to shoes and stockings for negro fellows, 1780 Feb.

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