Orders, 11 July 1756
Orders
Parole: Cambridge.
Fort Cumberland [Md.] Sunday, July 11th 1756.
One Captain, two Subalterns, three Sergeants, and fifty rank and file to parade to-morrow morning at gun-firing—The Captain to wait on Colonel Washington for his orders. The Companies are to be completed to thirty-seven men each—The Officers commanding Companies, to give in a muster-roll of their men—specifying their names, age, size, country, trade, place of abode, when enlisted, and particular descriptions.1
LB, DLC:GW.
1. For reference to the size rolls of twelve companies of the Virginia Regiment, dated 13 July 1756 (DLC:GW), see GW to Thomas Waggener, 13 July 1756 (first letter), n.1.