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General Orders, 27 December 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Morristown Monday—Decr 27th [1779]

Parole—Hiram— C. Signs St Johns. Masons.

Major Reed will join the detachment under General Irvine in place of Major C. Stewart, absent on furlough.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes additional general orders: “Lord Stirlings Division gives the Main Guard Tomorrow.

“General St Clairs Division will furnish a Corporal & six Men to drive Horses into the Country—They will attend the Forage Master Genl with their packs & three Days Provisions tomorrow Morning 9 o’Clock.

“A subaltern two Serjeants & 40 Rank & file from the Connecticut line for Fatigue tomorrow at the Orderly room” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).

1. Maj. James Randolph Reid replaced Maj. Christopher Stuart. For Brig. Gen. William Irvine’s detachment, see General Orders, 26 Dec., and n.1 to that document.

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    “General Orders, 27 December 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0565. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 23, 22 October–31 December 1779, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 745.]