Scope and Content: Initial arrangements for provisioning Massachusetts troops during the American Revolution began with the appointment in Feb. 1775 of John Pigeon as commissary of stores (later commissary general) by the Committee of Safety at the request of the Second Provincial Congress.  At the time, the commissary maintained two stores, in Cambridge and Roxbury, one to supply each camp of colonial troops. In June 1775, Pigeon requested the appointment of a supervisor for each encampment (Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, p. 577).  William Brown is described as commissary clerk at the Cambridge store and is presumed to have been responsible for the maintenance of the records for the Cambridge store (see entries for May 15, 1775 and May 20, 1775).  Series (which ends in Aug. 1775 with the transfer of responsibilities to the commissary general of the Continental Army, Gen. Joseph Trumbull (Resolves 1775-76, c 93)), consists of six blotters that document supplies received at and disbursed to regiments by the Cambridge store.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Contents: (1) Apr. 21-May 17, 1775  (2) May 17-26, 1775  (3) May 27- June 10, 1775  (4) June 10-July 9, 1775  (5) July 9-22, 1775  (6) July 22-Aug. 4, 1775
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