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Orders, 20 May 1756

Orders

Parole: Virginia.

Winchester: Thursday May 20th 1756.

A Regimental court martial to sit immediately for trial of Barnaby Cone, for making a false alarm.

The Officers are to see that the Sergeants drill the new Recruits in town at least twice a-day.

Evening Orders.

A Sergeant and twelve men to parade to-morrow morning at Sun-rise, as a working party: To apply to Commissary Walker for his Directions.

LB, DLC:GW.

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    Orders, 20 May 1756
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    “Orders, 20 May 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0164. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 167.]