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General Orders, 3 February 1781

General Orders

[New Windsor] Saturday February 3d 1781

Parole Countersigns——

Returns of all the men who have not had the small pox to be given in to the Orderly Office by Brigades as soon as possible.1

The Honorable the Congress have been pleased to make the following Election.

In Congress January 17. 1781.

Congress proceeded to the Election of a director of the Military Hospital and the ballots being taken.

Doctor John Cochran was elected.2

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For some of these returns, see William Heath to GW, 8 Feb., and n.4.

2. See JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 19:65; see also Samuel Huntington to GW, 18 Jan., and n.2.

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    “General Orders, 3 February 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-30-02-0316. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 30, 1 January–6 March 1781, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, p. 350.]