General Orders, 2 May 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Morristown Tuesday May 2nd 1780
Parole Poland Countersigns B. O.
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Spencer[,] Major Torrey[,] Brigade Major 2d Pennsylva. Brigade
The Pennsylvania Lines gives the Main Guard & Picquet tomorrow.
The Noncommissioned Officers and privates of Colonel Sherburn’s regiment who belong to the State of Massachusett[s] are for the present to join Colonel Jackson’s regiment; those belonging to the State of Rhode Island Colonel Angell’s1 and those belonging to the State of Connecticut Colonel Webb’s2 they are to be included in the Muster Rolls and payrolls of the above regiment, from the 1st Instant.
’Till further orders all Guards and Detachments are to be furnish’d with as many Cartridges as their boxes will contain and no more unless expressly ordered.
Francis Lambert of Colonel Gansevoort’s regiment is to be sent to the Quarter master General’s store in Morristown where he will remain ’till the regiment moves from this ground.3
The Prisoners in the Provost Guard to be tried as soon as possible.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
GW’s warrant book for this date indicates that Maj. Caleb Gibbs received $4,000 “for the use of His Excelly” (Revolutionary War Warrant Book 5, 1780–1783, DLC:GW, ser. 5). Gibbs wrote a receipt for this money “for the use of defraying the Expence of His Excellency General Washington’s family” on the same date (Revolutionary War Receipt Book, 1776–1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5).
1. Ensign Jeremiah Greenman of Col. Israel Angell’s 2d Rhode Island Regiment wrote in his diary entry for 1–3 May: “Colo. Shurbands [Additional Continental] Regt. was ordered to be reduced … Eight or Nine that belonged to the State of Rhode Island was tranfired to our Regt” (, 171).
2. The general orders are referring to Col. Samuel Blachley Webb’s Additional Continental Regiment, which became the 9th Connecticut Regiment in July (see GW to the Committee at Headquarters, 18 July, DNA:PCC, item 152).
3. Col. Peter Gansevoort’s 3d New York Regiment did not include a soldier named “Francis Lambert,” but Francis Lampier mustered as a private in December 1777 and was with the regiment during the entire Morristown winter encampment. Lampier also accompanied the unit when it moved to West Point, N.Y., in late spring 1780.