George Washington Papers

Orders, 26 April 1756

Orders

Parole: Taunton.

Winchester: Monday, April 26th 1756.

A Regimental Court Martial to sit immediately for Trial of George Livingston.1 Lieutenant Eustace, President.2

LB, DLC:GW.

1. George Livingston seems not to have remained in the Virginia Regiment, for his name has not been found on any of the company size rolls or payrolls after this date.

2. GW promoted Hancock Eustace of Northumberland County from ensign to lieutenant in September 1755. Eustace, who was in Capt. William Bronaugh’s company, left the Virginia Regiment in June 1757 and in 1758 served in the 2d Virginia Regiment.

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    Orders, 26 April 1756
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    “Orders, 26 April 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0048. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 53.]