George Washington Papers

General Orders, 27 May 1780

General Orders

Head Quarters Morristown Saturday May 27th 1780

Parole Carlisle Countersigns N: U.

[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Stewart[,] Major Leavensworth[,] Brigade Major Clinton’s Brigade1

A Corporal and six men from the 1st pennsylvania Brigade with two days provisions and their Arms to be sent tomorrow morning seven o clock to General Greenes Quarters in Morristown: They will receive their orders from him.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Maj. Nicholas Fish was the brigade major of Brig. Gen.James Clinton’s brigade (see GW to Clinton, 10 June 1779). Capt. Leonard Bleecker may have served as brigade major of the day on this date (see Lauber, Orderly Books of the Fourth and Second New York Regiments 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, 1932. description ends , 363).

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    “General Orders, 27 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0134. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 199.]