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.