[ Autographs ] SUPPLYING HOWE'S ARMY Manuscript document, 1p. legal folio, "Comptroller's Office", July 8, 1776. Four days after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Henry Banbury in the British Comptroller's Office certifies that "...In Obedience to your Lordships order...On a Certificate for provisions delivered intoHis Majesty's Storehouses at Cork...for 3,000 of his Majesty's forces, serving under General Howe in North America...I...humbly Report to your Lordships, that I have examined the Certificate...by which it appears, that 231 Ferkins, Containing 14,625 pounds of Butter, have been delivered into his Majestys Stores there...to have been in good, and wholesome, condition...And amounts...to the Sum of L274..4..4..." This return only accounts for a fraction of the provisions and stores that were sent to New York in preparation for invasion; the combined strength of Howe's forces and the fleet in New York Harbor during the summer of 1776 was in the tens of thousands. Very good to fine condition.