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Return of Tonnage Necessary for Transporting the Troops

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Boston, November 27, 1775.

Return of Tonnage necessary for transporting the Troops, Artillery, Stores, and Inhabitants, &c˙, &c˙, &c.
Departments.
Tonnage.
Royal Artillery Stores, 2,900
One Regiment of Dragoons, 2,900
Ten thousand Infantry, 15,000
Deputy Quartermaster-Generals, 3,800
Commissary-Generals, 1,817
Engineers, 1,100
Barrackmaster-Generals, 555
General Hospital, 1,100
Inhabitants, with their effects, supposed to be 6,000
Total, 35,172
Tonnage of transports at present in port, 9,721
Out upon different services, 7,039
Ships and small craft in harbour, 6,810
  23,570
Wanting to complete, 11,602
Total, 35,172

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