General Orders, 8 January 1781
General Orders
[New Windsor] Monday January 8th 1781
Parole. Countersigns.
The Rank of the Massachusetts regiments under the new establishment of the army having been determined as follows.1
| No. of the Regiment | Commanded by |
| 1st regiment | Colonel Vose |
| 2d | Lieutenant Colonel Sprout |
| 3d | Colonel Greaton |
| 4th | Colonel Shepard |
| 5th | Colonel Putnam |
| 6th | Lieutenant Colonel Smith |
| 7th | Lieutenant Colonel Brooks |
| 8th | Colonel M. Jackson. |
| 9 | Colonel H. Jackson |
| 10th | Colonel Tupper. |
By a Committee chosen by the respective commanding officers of them or their Representatives; the Commander in Chief for that reason approves the determination of the Committee and directs it to take place accordingly.2
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. For the new organization of the Continental army, which, among other reforms, reduced the number of infantry regiments from every state except Delaware, see Samuel Huntington to GW, 4 and 26 Oct. 1780, and GW to Huntington, 11 Oct. 1780; see also , 18:893–97, 958–62, and General Orders, 1 November.
2. For this committee and its selection of colonels for the revised Massachusetts regiments, see the general orders for 1 Nov., n.5.