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). Aaron Blaney was the commissary for the Roxbury store during this period.  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 account and receipt books in four groups, documenting supplies received at and disbursed by the Roxbury store, even before the official appointment of Blaney as deputy:
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