Order for Supplies for General Washington

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In Council, September 28, 1776.

Whereas General Washington, in his letter of the 19th instant, to the General Assembly of this State, has represented that the army under his command are much in want of Camp Utensils, and that he knows not how to procure a sufficiency:

Therefore, Ordered, That the Commissary-General be, and hereby is directed to procure two Teams, and load the same with such a number of iron Pots as they can contain, and send them forward immediately to Norwich, in the State of Connecticut, and consign them to William Coit, Esq˙, merchant there, and desire him to forward them by water to the town of Fairfield, to the address of Thaddeus Burr, Esq˙, to be by him forwarded to General Washington for the use of the Continental Army in the State of New-York.