General Orders, 13 November 1779
General Orders
Head-Quarters Moore’s House [West Point]
saturday Novr 13th 1779.
Parole Flanders— C. Signs Florence. Florida.
The Commissaries to issue the following quantities of meat or vegetables in lieu of the reduced ration of flour.
For every 100 lbs. of flour, reduced from the issues, 75 lbs. beef, or 50 lbs. pork or if received in vegetables, 2½ bushels pease; or 2½ bushels beans; or 8 bushels potatoes, or 12 bushels turnips; and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity.1
Varick transcript, DLC:GW; copies (2), MHi: Heath Papers. The copies do not include the parole or countersign words.
Col. Otho Holland Williams’s orderly book entry for this date includes an additional general order: “A Serjeant Corporal & 12 Men from the Maryld line to be at the Q.M. Genl’s Qrs with 2 Days provisions this afternoon—They are to take 2 Boats down the river to Colo. Gouveang at King’s Ferry” (orderly book, 12 Oct.–24 Dec. 1779, DLC: Peter Force Collection).
A record in GW’s expense book for this date indicates the purchase of “2 roasting pigs @ £8” each (household account book, 11 April 1776–21 Nov. 1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5, vol. 28).
1. For the suggestion that rations be altered because of flour’s scarcity, see Jeremiah Wadsworth to GW, 8 November.