Orders to Colonels Morey and Bellows, to procure, immediately, Supplies for Colonel Bedel' s Regiment

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In Committee of Safety, January 21, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: You are desired, immediately, to procure on the best terms the following articles, for the use of the regiment now raising on the frontiers of this Colony, to march into Canada under the command of Colonel Timothy Bedel, there to join the Northern Continental Army, and to deliver to each soldier his proportion of the same, of the provisions, at the rate of one pound of pork, and one pound of bread, and half a pint of peas, each day, for their march from Connecticut River, through the woods to Onion River, which it is estimated will be fifteen days at least; and you are to keep an exact account of the delivery of the whole:

Twelve thousand pounds salt pork, at seven pence; 400 bushels of wheat, to be ground into flour; 500 pair of men' s shoes; 50 moose skins for moccasins; 720 pair rackets or snow shoes; 688 hatchets, or tomahawks; 688 blankets, at fifteen shillings, to be allowed each soldier; if the blanket cost more, the soldier to pay the overplus, if less, to be made up to him; 120 tin camp kettles; gunpowder; musket balls; flints; ground ginger; 200 gallons rum; 200 yards coarse cloth, for Indian leggins; 200 yards coarse cloth, for shirting; 200 yards coarse cloth, for men' s clothes.

By order of the Committee:

MESHECH WEAHE, Chairman..

To Colonel Morey and Colonel Bellows.