Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general orders: “A Surgeon from the first Pennsylvania Brigade and a Mate from the second Maryland Brigade are to join Coll Hazens Command as soon as Possible.

“A Fatigue party of One Captain One subaltern four serjts four Corporals and Forty Privates from the first Maryland Brigade to go to work tomorrow morning 9 o’C[lock] on the new Orderly room under direction of the Officer Commanding the alarm Artillery.

“A serjeant Corporal and Twelve men from General Hands Brigade to attend at the Adjutant Generals Quarters in Morris Town Tomorrow morning” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).

On this date, Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene wrote to deputy quartermaster general Moore Furman that Joseph Reed, president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, was at headquarters “on business in consequence of a requisition from Congress for providing supplies for the Army in a new way.” Greene wrote that Reed had “had a consultation with the Commander in chief upon the business, who thinks the plan inadmissable; indeed he is of opinion it is altogeth[er] impracticable to put the business upon the footing t[hat] Congress wish” (Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 5:294). Reed had left Philadelphia for headquarters on 13 Jan. (see Charles Pettit to Greene, 12 Jan., in Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 5:262–64). He probably remained in camp until at least 23 Jan.; he did not resume the chair of the council’s meetings until 25 Jan. (see Pa. Col. Records, description begins Colonial Records of Pennsylvania. 16 vols. Harrisburg, 1840–53. description ends 12:226–32). For Congress’s “new way” of providing provisions for the army, which they had begun on a limited basis in December and soon extended to all the states, see Samuel Huntington to GW, 29 Feb., and n.2. GW was much milder in his public comments on the implementation of the new supply system (see GW to Huntington, 6–8 March).

On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton wrote to Greene: “It is found necessary to send surgeons with the detachments on the lines, and they must have horses to convey their Chirurgical apparatus. Will it be most convenient to get them from you by special application, or to obtain them from the Brigades? This question the General orders me to make” (PPAmP: Nathanael Greene Papers).