George Washington Papers

General Orders, 9 November 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Moores-House [West Point]
Tuesday Novr 9th 1779.

Parole Blessington C. Signs Campden. Canary.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Ensign John Barr of the 4th New York Regiment, then camped near Pompton Forge, N.J., wrote in his diary for this date: “his Excellency Genl Washington Rode through Camp to Day” (Barr, Diary, description begins Almon W. Lauber, ed. Orderly Books of the Fourth New York Regiment, 1778–1780, the Second New York Regiment, 1780–1783, by Samuel Tallmadge and Others with Diaries of Samuel Tallmadge, 1780–1782, and John Barr, 1779–1782. Albany, N.Y., 1932. description ends 813).

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