General Orders, 3 February 1781
General Orders
[New Windsor] Saturday February 3d 1781
Parole Countersigns——
Returns of all the men who have not had the small pox to be given in to the Orderly Office by Brigades as soon as possible.1
The Honorable the Congress have been pleased to make the following Election.
In Congress January 17. 1781.
Congress proceeded to the Election of a director of the Military Hospital and the ballots being taken.
Doctor John Cochran was elected.2
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. For some of these returns, see William Heath to GW, 8 Feb., and n.4.
2. See , 19:65; see also Samuel Huntington to GW, 18 Jan., and n.2.