George Washington Papers

General Orders, 23 April 1776

General Orders

Head-Quarters, New-York, April 23rd 1776

Parole Burke.Countersign, Barre.

Hitchcock’s, and Varnums regiments, to be ready to be muster’d on Friday Morning next1—They will be under Arms at eleven in the forenoon upon the Common near the Park of Artillery, where the Commissary General of Musters will attend.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. The following Friday was 26 April.

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    General Orders, 23 April 1776
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    Washington, George
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    23 April 1776

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    “General Orders, 23 April 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0093. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 4, 1 April 1776 – 15 June 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 110.]