General Orders, 16 May 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Morristown Tuesday May 16th 1780
Parole Williamsburgh. Countersigns Wells, Wales.
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:]1
To command the manœuvring battalions tomorrow[:] Colonels Cortlandt & Jackson. Lt Colonels Robinson & Hay.
All officers absent from the Army except on Furloughs not expired recruiting or on command are forthwith to join their Corps. The officers commanding Divisions will pay particular attention to have this order executed.
The manœuvring Battalions to be formed in the field opposite Stark’s Brigade precisely at Nine o clock tomorrow morning: Two Adjutants from the Pennsylvania Division to be added to these Battalions: They are to be furnished with a Standard from the Pennsylvania Division and one from Clinton’s brigade: Brigade Major from the 1st Pennsylvania Brigade to attend the formation.2
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
GW’s expenses for this date included £2.5 “To 1 dozn large button molds for the General” and £8 “To 7 dozn small [button molds]” (Revolutionary War Journal of Household Expenses, 1776–1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5).
1. Other orderly books list Brig. Gen. William Irvine, Lt. Col. Frederick Weissenfels, and Maj. Thomas Church as “officers for Duty Tomorrow” in the general orders for this date (, 351; see also , 320).
2. Another orderly book gives three additional general orders. The first called for a non-commissioned officer and seven camp color men from the Pennsylvania division to be sent to Morristown early the next morning. The second directed a fatigue party with blankets and provisions for two days to Clement Biddle’s quarters the next morning, “where they will Recieve their orders.” The third reads: “A Serjt from Each Brigade to Attend Daily the Genl Court Martial whereof Br Genl hand is president” (, 351–52).