Mentions that shipment of cartouch boxes to the 13th Regiment will proceed apace once they have been inspected. Describes work with shoe makers to make shoes in good leather, costs may exceed the original quoted price.
Hamilton discusses the forms of muster and payrolls needed by officers in order to receive and disburse pay to the troops. He stresses that each commanding general needs these forms but that communications on pay should be between subordinate officers designated for that duty.
Certification of payment; $200.18 to John King, contractor, for rations, quartermaster and hospital stores furnished detachment, 11th Regiment of Infantry, at encampment near Elizabeth Town, New Jersey.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Hamilton decries the inefficiency that has caused delays in the payment of the troops resulting in mutinous discontent among two regiments. He confirms his support of established rules but also notes that circumstances sometimes require the violation of said rules. The soldiery should not suffer a deprivation of pay simply because the proper forms are not yet available.
"I pray you to write me no letters to reach Quincy or Boston after the 29th. On next Monday, sen'night, I shall set out for Trenton and reach it at latest by the 15th of October. I also request that you would write to the Attorney General and the American commissioners to meet us all at Trenton at as early a day after the 15th as you shall judge proper. I also desire that all this may be kept as secret as possible, that my journey may meet as little interruption as possible. I shall come alone. Mrs. Adams will follow me soon enough to go with me to Philadelphia."
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
