General Orders, 3 October 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Orangetown Tuesday October 3d 1780
Parole North Carolina Countersigns Namur, Pym.
Watchword Justice
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Huntington[,] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Reid[,] Lieutenant Colonel Johnston[,] Major Wyllys[,] Brigade Major White
For Detachment[:] Major Chapman
After Orders
Each regiment to furnish two Tents for the Camp and Quarter Guards—The brigade Quarter masters will see that they are properly pitched immediately.1
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. Ensign Jeremiah Greenman wrote in his diary entry for this date that while on “Brigade Guard” in stormy weather, he had no protection except “a hut made of bows [boughs]” ( , 183, brackets in source).