Colonel Joseph Reed to Joseph Trumbull

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Camp at Cambridge, October 5, 1775.

SIR: By express the evening before last the General received despatches from the Congress, wherein, among other things, he is desired to lay before them an estimate of the expenses of the Army during the winter. As your department includes the most considerable branch of expense, he requests you would, with all expedition, give him your sentiments on this subject, for his government in answering this despatch. It is not supposed to be absolutely necessary to fix the number of men, as you can take any given number upon which the estimate may be made, which will increase or diminish according to the number actually employed.

I must refer you to the Governour for what little news since you went away. Poor Doctor Church is certainly ruined.

I am, in haste, and expecting your earliest answer, your most obedient and very humble servant,

JOSEPH REED.

To Joseph Trumbull, Esq˙, Commissary-General.