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Rhode-Island Camp, June 2, 1775.
I arrived in camp on Saturday last, and found it in great commotion. A few days longer in the state of excitement in which I found our Troops, would have proved fatal to our campaign. The want of government, and of a certainty of supplies, had thrown every thing into disorder. Several Companies had clubbed their muskets in order to march home. I have made several regulations for introducing order and composing their murmurs; but it is very difficult to limit people who have had so much latitude, without throwing them into disorder. The Commissaries
General Greene to Jacob Greene, Esq.
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had been beaten off at my arrival, and were about returning home the next day. I believe there never was a person more welcome, who was so little deserving, as myself. I wish you would forward Colonel Varnum' s Regiment; he will be a welcome guest in camp. I expect much from his and his troops' example.