General Orders, 12 October 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Totowa Thursday October 12th 1780
Parole Rariton Countersigns Ross, Rice.
Watchword Resolution
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Huntingdon[,] Colonel Nixon[,] Lieutenant Colonel Vose[,] Major Chapman[,] Brigade Major Ashley
Two Subs. two serjeants and forty rank and file for fatigue tomorrow, furnished with two days provision to repair the roads and bridges.
A Collier from each brigade to be employed under the direction of Colonel Baldwin while the Army remains in its present position.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
Lt. William S. Pennington of the 2d Continental Artillery Regiment wrote in his diary entry for this date: “Last evening Colonel Meigs’ Regiment of Connecticut troops arrived in camp from Peekskill, where they had been stationed for some time past” (GW’s second letter to Nathanael Greene, 6 Oct., n.2).
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