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Orders, 5 May 1756

Orders

Parole: Essex.

Winchester: Wednesday, May 5th 1756.

A Court Martial to sit immediately for trial of John Grant, Drummer; Sergeants Richardson, Talman, and Whitecotton; and Timothy Conner, private.1

Three Subalterns and two Sergeants to go immediately in pursuit of Corporal Thomas, Deserter.2

Horses are to be hired or impress for this Duty.

LB, DLC:GW.

1. Recruited at Williamsburg in December 1754 by Robert Stewart, John Grant in July 1756 was a 20–year-old Irishman in Thomas Cocke’s company. George Whitecotton, a Virginian who enlisted in Stafford County in 1755, was a sergeant in Henry Woodward’s company in July 1756. An Ezekiel Richardson was ordered to stand court-martial on 17 May, and Timothy Conner was ordered tried on 3 June.

2. For information on James Thomas, his trial, conviction, and pardon, see Orders, Court-Martial, and GW to Adam Stephen, all 18 May, GW to Dinwiddie, 23 May, and Dinwiddie to GW, 27 May 1756.

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    “Orders, 5 May 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0089. [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, pp. 95–96.]