General Orders, 14 June 1781
General Orders
Head Quarters New Windsor Thursday June 14th 1781
Parole Countersigns ——
The regimental surgeons are requested to make returns immediately to the Chief Physician and Surgeon of the Army,1 of all the medicines on hand and what articles they are in want of, that they may receive orders on the Apothecary at Fishkill to supply them as far as his stock on hand will admit of.2
An exact return of all the women with the army who draw provisions from the public is to be given in at the orderly office as soon as may be.
The Quarter master General is immediately to make the best provision of straw in his power at or near Peekskill for the use of the Troops who are to be encamped, at that place.3
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. James Craik was the army’s chief physician and surgeon (see General Orders, 11 May, and n.1).
2. William Johonnot was an assistant apothecary stationed at Fishkill.
William Johonnot (d. 1782) had operated an apothecary shop in Haverhill, Massachusetts. By spring 1777, he had become chief apothecary of hospitals in the eastern department, and Congress appointed him assistant apothecary in the army hospital department on 7 Oct. 1780 (see , 18:909–10). Johonnot drowned near Fishkill (see Thomas’s The Massachusetts Spy: Or, Worcester Gazette, 13 June 1782).
3. For the encampment near Peekskill, see General Orders, 18 and 19 June; see also GW to Duportail, 17 June.