General Orders, 27 September 1775
General Orders
Head Quarters, Cambridge, Sept. 27th 1775
Parole Yorkshire.Countersign. Amboy
Amos Brown of Capt. Wilders Company in Col. Whitcomb’s Regiment,1 tried at a General Court Martial whereof Col. Bridge was Presdt for “mutinous and abusive language”—The Court are unanimously of opinion the prisoner is not guilty & therefore acquit the prisoner.
Genl Thomas’s brigade to be mustered on monday morning at seven OClock, and General Spencers on Wednesday morning at the same hour.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. David Wilder commanded the company. Asa Whitcomb (1719–1804) of Lancaster, Mass., served as a regimental commander from May 1775 to the end of 1776. Before the war Whitcomb sat for eight years in the General Court, and he was a member of the first two provincial congresses. But, according to Samuel Holden Parsons, Whitcomb had “no Trace of an Officer” (Parsons to Adams, 15 Aug. 1776, in , 4:462–65).