Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general order: “Hands and Maxwells Brigades relieve the main Guard tomorrow.”

The same entry includes the following after orders: “A Corporal and four Men from the second Maryland Brigade to attend at the Forage Master Generals tomorrow to Drive Horses to Pennsylvania” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).

On or just before this date, GW attended a dancing assembly, the first of several held during the winter (see Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 5:407). The assemblies were funded by a subscription list to which GW signed his name. The subscribers agreed “to pay the Sums annexed to their respective Names, and an equal quota of any further Expence which may be incurred in the promotion and Support of a dancing assembly to be held in Morristown this present Winter 1780.” Most of the subscribers pledged $400 to the assembly fund; GW has no amount listed next to his signature, but a notation following it reads “paid.” The undated list includes generals Stirling, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Henry Knox, and Johann Kalb, and colonels Moses Hazen, Henry Jackson, and Thomas Proctor, as well as GW’s aides Robert Hanson Harrison, Richard Kidder Meade, James McHenry, Alexander Hamilton, and Tench Tilghman (DS, in private hands; a facsimile of the document appears in John Jay Smith & John F. Watson, eds., American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents Relating to the Events of the Revolution … [Philadelphia, 1847] vol. 1, plate XXII). A second assembly was held on 1 March (see Greene to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 2 March, in Greene Papers, description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends 5:429–31). GW presumably attended that assembly as well.