Scope and Content: During the beginning of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, the Provincial Congress supplied Massachusetts troops through a Committee of Supplies, assisted by a commissary general and a quartermaster general.  The latter was responsible for supplying the army for military operations, officers’ housing, materials for barracks construction, and, from mid-June 1775, barrack utensils. Series documents order, delivery, and receipt of certain items during the tenure of the first quartermaster general, Joseph Pearse Palmer, from May 1, 1775, the day following his appointment, until Aug. 16, 1775, two days after Gen. George Washington federalized the post.
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