George Washington Papers

General Orders, 13 June 1781

General Orders

Head Quarters New Windsor Wednesday June 13th 1781

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Fifty Boatbuilders and Ship Carpenters—or other carpenters to complete the deficiency of the former.

Twenty four Wood cutters and four nailors—to be immediately sent to the Quarter master General.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. In his diary for this date, GW commented on these orders and his decision to send a detachment “to collect and take care of the public Boats” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:380; see also GW to Pickering, 10 June).

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    General Orders, 13 June 1781
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    “General Orders, 13 June 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-32-02-0332. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 32, 6 May–4 July 1781, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, p. 433.]