George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 13 June 1781]

13th. To facilitate the building, and repairing of Boats, a number of Carpenters was ordered from the line of the army to the Q. M. G. to aid the artificers of his department in this important business and Major Darby with a Captain 5 Subs & 6 Sergts. and 100 Rank & file were drawn from the army in order to collect and take care of the public Boats.1

1. Samuel Darby (d. 1807) had served as a captain in various Massachusetts regiments and was promoted to major in the 7th Massachusetts in 1778. Darby’s instructions were contained in General Orders, 19 June 1781 (DLC:GW).

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    [Diary entry: 13 June 1781]
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    Washington, George
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    13 June 1781

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    “[Diary entry: 13 June 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0002-0007. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 380.]