23221General Orders, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Captain Jeremiah Brewen is to superintend the Artificers during the absence of Colonel Baldwin & to be respected accordingly. All officers and soldiers absent on furlough from any part of the Army either immediately under the Commander in Chief or else-where are required without fail to join their Corps before the 1st of May next: This order is not to affect those whose leave of absence will...
23222General Orders, 24 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
Information having been given that divers of the late sutlers, and some of the inhabitants have opened tippling houses within and adjacent to the encampment of the army, by which the design of banishing the Sutlers from the army is in a great measure frustrated. The Deputy Quarter Master General is required forthwith, to make diligent inquiry, and examination, for discovering such houses, and...
23223George Washington to ———, [12 July 1779] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Windsor, New York, July 12, 1779. The newspaper description of this letter reads: “… a Revolutionary War letter from Washington, in Alexander Hamilton’s hand, sketching out military strategy in a planned attack on British-held Stony Point.” Letter not found. ] LS , in the handwriting of H, sold by Charles Hamilton Autographs, Inc., to Charles Sessler, Inc., Philadelphia ( The New York...
23224General Orders, 4 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Stark[,] Lieutenant Colonel Hay[,] Brigade Major 1st Connecticut brigade The Connecticut Line to be Inspected tomorrow by the Inspector General. The Inspection to begin at 6 o clock in the morning. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . GW’s expenses for this date included £1.2.6 “To cash pd servant for bringg asparagrass a present to Mrs Washington”...
23225General Orders, 18 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Colonels & commanding Officers of Regiments and Corps, are to deliver to the Adjutant General, at Orderly time next Saturday —Their Pay Abstracts for the Months of October, November and December; Also an Abstract for the month of January next, for each of the new-established Corps, The Honorable the Continental Congress having been pleased to order all those, who have bravely resolved to...
23226General Orders, 22 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major Genl Heath Majors Trescot & Gibbs Brigade Major Converse Quarter Master Riply For Duty tomorrow the 2d Connecticut. & Rhode Island regiments. The Army is to Manouvre on Thursday next the dispotition for it will be previously given out and the troops are to be served with an extra gill of rum Pr man on that day. The Army is to be in readiness to march at the shortest...
23227General Orders, 15 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
For duty tomorrow the 8th Massachusetts regiment. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
23228General Orders, 18 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
The General Court Martial ordered to sit this day, at Roxbury, is postponed until Friday morning next, at Nine ’OClock Brigadier Genl Thomas being obliged to attend this forenoon at Head quarters. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . John Thomas, who attended this day’s council of war at Cambridge, was president of Col. David Brewer’s court-martial. See General Orders, 15 Oct. 1775 . The following...
23229General Orders, 17 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
For the Day Tomorrow Major General Lincoln Lieutenant Colonel Olney For picquet Major Woodbridge Inspector Captain Remick The Commander in Chief is exceedingly pleased with the Conduct of Major General Howe for marching with so much alacrity and rapidity to the defence of the stores at Tarrytown and repulsing the Enemy’s shipping from thence. He requests General Howe and all the officers and...
23230[Diary entry: 15 June 1775] (Washington Papers)
15. Clear, and Cooler than Yesterday.
23231General Orders, 20 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Patterson[,] Colonel Hazen[,] Lieutenant Colonel Hull[,] Major Ballard[,] Brigade Major Ashley The General Court martial whereof Colonel Jackson is President to sit tomorrow morning nine ô clock at the Church Orderlies from the Left wing. The Guards and Picquets to parade near the Church three quarters past five ô clock this afternoon. One...
23232General Orders, 6 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major Genl Heath B.Qr Mr from the Hampshire The 6th Massachusetts regt gives the Guards & the 4th the fatigues tomorrow. The Commanding officers of State Lines will be pleased to see that all Detachments of men going on furlough in consequence of the orders of the 2d instant are properly officered—it will then be at the option of the remainder (except those who may be...
23233General Orders, 14 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
The regiments of horse are to draw provisions of any issuing Commissary, lying most convenient to them, upon proper returns therefor. Such of the baggage as is not absolutely necessary for the troops, and all the Commissary’s and others stores, are to remain on this side of the gulph. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
23234General Orders, 12 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
The business of granting passes proving burthensome to Messrs Berrien, Ray & Wilmot; three others are added to them, viz.: William Goforth, John Campbell and Samuel Cowperthwaite, any passes signed by either of them are to be allowed. The Honorable The Continental Congress have been pleased to appoint the following Gentlemen, Majors General of the Army of the United States. viz.: William Heath...
23235General Orders, 9 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Cloathier General will have particular regard to Morgan’s Corps, the Artillery, the sixteen Additional Battalions and the North Carolina Brigade, when the next supply of cloathing arrives as the former are not provided for by any State and the latter are so far distant from their own that they have not received any supplies from thence. A General Court Martial whereof Brigr General...
23236General Orders, 24 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Honorable the Continental Congress have been pleased to appoint Major General Greene Quarter Master General in the Army of The-United-States reserving to him his rank of Major General in the same and John Cox and Charles Pettit Esquires Assistants Quarter Master General, all of whom respectively are to be considered and respected accordingly. At nine ôClock precisely all the Brigades will...
23237General Orders, 19 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the Day tomorw Brigadier Genl Huntington Colonel Shepard Lieutt Col. Sprout Brigade Major Smith Brigade Qr Master Tuckerman For duty tomorrow 1st York & 8th Massachusetts regiments. The Board of officers appointed in the orders of the 9th of Septr to examine the pretentions of the Candidates for the badge of Merit will be pleased to enquire into the grounds on which the badges for long and...
23238General Orders, 23 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Regimental Surgeons are requested to transmit weekly Returns of the sick, to the Orderly Office, every Saturday directed to the Chief Physician and Surgeon of the army, only specifying the number and the particular diseases under which they labor; all who have been sent to the hospitals and all who have died. The commanding officers of divisions brigades or seperate Posts are requested to...
23239General Orders, 21 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
23240General Orders, 26 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Genl Sullivan’s Brigade to be mustered upon Monday Morning next in the manner and form, directed by the General Orders of the 21st Inst. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The manuscript is incorrectly dated 27 August. A comparison with Artemas Ward’s orderly book shows that the date should be 26 Aug. ( MHi : Ward Papers). Sullivan’s brigade was not mustered until Friday, 1 Sept. (General Orders, 21...
23241General Orders, 15 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Continental Congress having ordered, Friday the 17th Instant to be observed as a day of “fasting, humiliation and prayer, humbly to supplicate the mercy of Almighty God, that it would please him to pardon all our manifold sins and transgressions, and to prosper the Arms of the United Colonies, and finally, establish the peace and freedom of America, upon a solid and lasting foundation”—The...
23242General Orders, 5 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Court Martial whereof Col. Stewart is president, is to sit to morrow morning at 9 o’clock—A serjeant from each brigade to attend the court, to summon witnesses and perform other necessary services, that greater dispatch may be made in trials. The several regiments to which any persons, who were selected as pioneers have been returned, as unfit for duty, are forthwith to supply others in...
23243General Orders, 8 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Colonels and Commanding Officers of Corps are to cause Company rolls to be made out with all possible expedition, comprehending the names of their men actually in the Field, on Command and in hospitals and particularly noting the time for which they are engaged to serve—These rolls are to be regimentally bound up and delivered to the Brigadiers or officers commanding Brigades who are to...
23244General Orders, 16 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Tomorrow being the glorious Anniversary of the surrender of General Burgoyne and his troops to the Arms of America , under the Command of Major General Gates, it will be commemorated by the discharge of thirteen Cannon from the Park of Artillery at twelve ôClock. No more sick to be sent to the hospital at Quaker Hill without first enquiring of the Chief Surgeon there whether they can be...
23245General Orders, 12 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
The following Virginia Regiments are for the present to be united the 3rd with the 4th—the 5th with the 11th—These regiments so united and the 2nd 7th and 8th are to compose Genl Woodford’s Brigade—The 1st is in like manner to be united with the 10th and together with the 6th Regiment, the one commanded by Colonel Gist and the 1st and 2nd State Regiments are to compose General Muhlenberg’s....
23246General Orders, 26 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Captain Thomas Bartholomew Bowen of the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment is appointed Pay-Master to the same vice Ensign Tate resigne’d from the 15th inst. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . John Tate of York County, Pa., who had become paymaster of the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment in April 1777 and had been appointed an ensign in June 1778, had resigned his commission on 15 October.
23247General Orders, 31 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of The Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Johnson[,] Major Parr[,] Brigade Major 1st Penna Brigade Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
23248General Orders, 26 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Court Martial of which Col. Magaw is President, having found that Lieut: Stewart, struck Serjeant Philips, but that he was provoked so to do by the latter, and acquitted him of “threatning the life of Col. Silliman.” The General approves the sentence, and orders Lieut: Stewart to be discharged from his arrest. The same Court Martial having tried and convicted Lieut: Danl Pelton, of Col....
23249General Orders, 17 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief having been requested by Congress to give his attendence at Prince Town, proposes to set out for that place Tomorrow—but expects to have the pleasure of seeing the Army again before he retires to private life—During his absence Major General Knox will retain the Command of the Troops, and all Reports are to be made to him Accordingly. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
23250General Orders, 4 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . No words were given for parole or countersigns on this date. For a payment of $1,000 on this date to John Wallace for GW’s use of his house during the winter encampment at Middlebrook, see the source note for the general orders of 6 February. For Wallace’s desire for additional compensation, and GW’s belief that he had been “hansomly paid already,” see Nathanael...