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General Orders, 15 February 1780

General Orders

Head-Quarters Morristown tuesday Feby 15th [1780]

Parole Transylvania— Countersigns: C.S. Timothy. Titus.

The issuing Commissaries will issue a jill of rum ⅌ man ⅌ day to the officers and men on Main guard and picket at Morristown.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general orders: “A serjeant, Corporal and Twelve Men from the first Maryland Brigade to be sent to the Hospital at Basking Ridge tomorrow to cut wood.

“The Brigades of Hand and Maxwell will relieve the Morris Town Pickett Tomorrow. they also furnish the Fatigue for the Orderly Roo⟨m⟩ Tomorrow and next Day.”

The same orderly book entry includes the following after orders: “Lt Coll Woolford being too sick to attend the General Court Martial Tomorrow, Major Dean is appointed a Member in his stead” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).

1. A gill is equivalent to one quarter of a pint.

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    “General Orders, 15 February 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0372. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 470–471.]