General Orders, 20 October 1777

General Orders

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Head Quarters, Whitpain Township [Pa.]1 October 20th 1777.

The troops are to draw and cook one day’s provision this afternoon, and be ready to march to morrow morning, at 6 o’clock precisely; but if it should rain, then they are not to strike their tents ’till further orders.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. On this date the army marched a few miles southeast from its camp in Worcester Township to a new camp in adjoining Whitpain Township, which also was in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. GW had his headquarters from 20 Oct. to 2 Nov. at Dawesfield, the two-story stone house of James Morris (1753–1795) located about a mile west of Ambler and about three miles northwest of Whitemarsh (see Pickering and Upham, Life of Pickering description begins Octavius Pickering and Charles W. Upham. The Life of Timothy Pickering. 4 vols. Boston, 1867–73. description ends , 1:180, and GW to John Hazelwood, 2 Nov. 1777).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders, 20 October 1777
Author: Washington, George
Date: 20 October 1777

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Cite as: “General Orders, 20 October 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-11-02-0569. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 11, 19 August 1777 – 25 October 1777, ed. Philander D. Chase and Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001, p. 559.]