Throughout the war, soldiers were often accompanied by their families because they had no other way to support them, and later in the war officers who were running low on assets also commonly had their families join them. Most families lived in surrounding camps rather than within the fort, and wives and older children worked as camp followers, performing domestic duties in exchange for food and shelter, a condition considered quite a hardship for some officers’ wives. One of the few documented cases of an officer’s family living at the fort occurred in 1780 and 1781, when Captain Moody of the artillery had his wife and daughter living there with him, probably because he had reached a point where he could no longer provide for his family without bringing them into army service.