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General Orders, 26 October 1778

General Orders

Head-Quarters Frederick’sburgh Monday Octr 26th [1778]

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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.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. 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.

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    General Orders, 26 October 1778
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    Washington, George
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    26 October 1778

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    “General Orders, 26 October 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-17-02-0600. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 17, 15 September–31 October 1778, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 578.]