General Ward to John Pigeon

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Head-Quarters, Cambridge, June 30, 1775.

SIR: There, are now on Prospect Hill nearly four thousand men, who at present are obliged to come to the store in college, for all the provisions they stand in need of. If they can be supplied with provisions at the hill, it will tend much to the safety of the lines there, for a great number of the men are now obliged daily to leave the lines that they may convey provisions to others upon the hill; and the milk especially, when it is conveyed from the store in college to the hill, is unfit for any person in camp to eat; therefore, if possible, it must be altered.

I am, Sir, &c˙,
ARTEMAS WARD.

To Mr˙ Commissary Pigeon.