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” (
813).