General Orders, 10 December 1779
General Orders
Head-Quarters Morristown friday Decr 10th [1779]
Parole Rehoboth— C. Signs Rockaway—Rome.
A Serjeant Corporal & 10 men from Genl St Clairs division to mount on the Qr Mr General’s store at Suckesunna to be reliev’d weekly.
A man from each brigade, who is acquainted with burning coal to be sent to Colonel Baldwin’s quarters tomorrow morning: this number to be kept up during the winter.1
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. Rather than “during the winter,” Col. Otho Holland Williams’s orderly book entry for this date reads “till farther Orders” (orderly book, 12 Oct.-24 Dec. 1779, DLC: Peter Force Collection).