General Orders (morning orders), 11 June 1780

General Orders

Morning Orders [Short Hills, N.J.,] June 11th 1780

The State or SubClothiers to apply without delay to the Deputy Clothier General at Colonel Potters on the Baskenridge road for their proportion of shoes; if the SubClothiers are not present officers are to be appointed for the purpose of receiving the shoes and delivering them to the regimental Clothiers.

A trusty Corporal to be sent from each division immediately to Colonel Potters to assist the Deputy Clothier General.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

On this date, GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison wrote Major General Stirling: “The General has desired me to inform You, that he intends to examine the Grounds on our right immediately after Breakfast & will be glad of your company. Your Lordship had better come down & partake of what we have” (NHi: Stirling Papers).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders (morning orders), 11 June 1780
Author: Washington, George
Date: 11 June 1780

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Cite as: “General Orders (morning orders), 11 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0259. [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, pp. 381–382.]