General Orders, 21 May 1781
General Orders
[New Windsor] Monday May 21st 1781.
Parole Countersigns.
A General Court martial composed of officers of Artillery (Lieutenant Colonel Stephens President) to assemble at the Artillery Park at ten o’Clock tomorrow morning for the trial of such prisoners of that corps as may be brought before them—all evidences to attend.1
The Quarter masters of Brigades and corps are forthwith to make returns to the Quarter master General of every species of public property in their hands and in possession of the several brigades and Corps including in the Returns all Waggons or other Carriages with their horses and Geers.
A Cooper to be sent to attend Commissary Weed’s Stores2 at New Windsor untill further Orders.3
Varick transcript, DLC:GW. See the general orders for 18 May, n.1.
1. For cases brought before this court-martial, see General Orders, 25 and 29 May.
2. Jacob Weed was assistant commissary of issues. In a petition to the U.S. Congress dated 2 Aug. 1790, Weed unsuccessfully complained that he had not been paid for the “several years” that he served “in the Department of the Commissary General of Issues” and requested settlement (, 7:426–28, quotes on 426).
3. John Singer Dexter, assistant to the adjutant general, kept an orderly book that includes after orders that end with this paragraph. Another after order precedes: “Lieutenant Desandier of Colonel Hazen’s regiment is appointed to superintend the Hospital at Fishkill untill further orders.
“He will call at the Adjutant General’s office for Instructions previous to entering on that duty” (DLC: Peter Force Collection). The appointment was an error (see General Orders, 31 May, n.1). The hospital at Fishkill closed in summer 1781 (see , 73–74, 97–98, 112).