Amount of Rations, &c., Allowed to the Soldiers, by the Continental Congress. 


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Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, Printed
1862, volume 8, December 1776   
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Amount of Rations, &c., Allowed to the Soldiers, by the Continental Congress.


Rations established by the Continental Congress, with variations made by Peter Phillips and
Jabez Bowen, Esqs., and approved by the honorable the commissioners of the four New
England
states, viz.: 

•One pound of wheat bread, or one pound of flour, or one pound-and-an-half of brown bread,
per man, per day. •One pound-and-a-quarter of beef, or one pound of pork, per man per day;
or
one pound of beef and one pound of pork for two days. •Three pints of beans or peas, per
man,
per week. •Eight pounds of hard soap, per hundred men, per week, including guards, &c. •Six
pounds candles, per hundred men, per week, including guards, &c. •One quart of beer per
day,
per man; or nine gallons of molasses, or three quarters of a hundred of sugar, per hundred
men, per week; or in lieu therof, one gill of rum, per man, per day. •Six ounces of butter
per man, per week; or the real price, in cash. •One gill of rice; or one pint of Indian
meal
per man, per week. •Half a gill of rum, per man, per day, when on fatigue. •Two quarts of
salt for every hundred pounds of fresh beef served out. •Vinegar occasionally. 

Submitted by your humble servants, 
Peter Phillips 
Jabez Bowen