General Orders, 12 December 1775

General Orders

Head Quarters, Cambridge. Decr 12th 1775

Parole Effingham.Countersign, Fuller

The Honorable the Continental Congress having been pleased to appoint Henry Knox Esqr. Colonel of the Regiment of Artillery, upon the new-establishment; he is to be obeyed as such.1

The Colonels or commanding Officers of the five Connecticut Regiments, upon the new establishment; to deliver to the Adjutant General to morrow at Orderly time, an exact List of the Commissioned Officers of their respective Corps, together with a Return of the men they have each of them inlisted for the above regiments; As an Express is immediately to set out to Governor Trumbull, who has demanded the same, to lay them before the Assembly of the colony.2

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Congress approved Knox’s appointment on 17 Nov. (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 3:359).

2. See Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., to GW, 9 Dec., and GW to Trumbull, 15 Dec. 1775.

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Title: General Orders, 12 December 1775
Author: Washington, George
Date: 12 December 1775

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Cite as: “General Orders, 12 December 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0493. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 539.]