General Orders, 21 November 1778
General Orders
Head-Quarters Fredericks-burgh [N.Y.] Saturday Novr 21st 78.
Parole Labrador—C. Signs Lynn Leghorn.
After Orders Novr 21st
Five hundred men from the Pennsylvania line properly officered to march tomorrow morning to Sharon to escort the Convention troops to Hudson’s River.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
On this date Maj. Caleb Gibbs paid tailor William Riley £6.12s.6d for clothing for GW and his servants, as follows: “Will—Two Coats Two wescoats And One pair of Breeches,” £3; “For Robert Preston One Coat one wescoat,” £1; “Francis Meriman one Coat one wescoat,” £1; “The Cost of Trimming for Wills Cloaths,” £1.2s.6d; and “For one wescoat for His Excellency,” 10s (Revolutionary War Accounts, Vouchers, and Receipted Accounts, 1776–1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5, vol. 29).