Letters, returns, accounts, and estimates of the Quartermaster General's Department, 1776-1783, in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War records

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Microfilm of original records in The National Archives, Washington, D.C.

"Responsibility for the procurement and distribution of army supplies during the Revolutionary War was divided among a number of staff departments. They included the Quartermaster General's Department, the Commissary General of Military Stores Department, and the Commissary General of Stores and Provisions Department and successor agencies"--Introd.

These records include a "register of letters received by Alexander Church, Superintendent of the Continental Horse yard; a return of public property belonging to the Quartermaster General's Department; a ledger of Quartermaster General accounts; and 55 miscellaneous unbound records items. These items include letters, returns, payrolls, abstracts, memorandums, accounts, estimates, and lists that relate to supplying quartermaster stores, equipment, and transportation and to providing artificers, carpenters, and other support personnel for the military forces between 1776 and 1783"--Introd.

"Many of the records bear a War Department stamp showing the file number under which correspondence about their transfer may be found in Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's - 1917"--Introd.

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