General Orders, 17 June 1781
General Orders
[New Windsor] Sunday June 17th 1781.
Parole. Countersigns ——
A Detachment to be immediately drawn out from the different Brigades for the Garrison of West Point—The Noncommissioned officers and privates to be composed of such as are the weakest and least fit for field duty.1
A Serjeant Corporal and eight men to be sent to Warwick on the road to Sussex Court House tomorrow for the Protection of the Commissaries stores there.2 The Serjeant when he arrives will take his orders from the Keeper of the Magazine—and continue on that duty untill relieved, or dismissed by the Keeper of the Magazine.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. The entry for 17 June in an orderly book kept at West Point (9–29 June 1781) lists the 1st and 2d Connecticut brigades; 1st, 2d, and 3d Massachusetts brigades; and Brig. Gen. John Stark’s brigade (NHi; see also the general orders for 15 June, n.4).
2. For this road, see GW to Richard Platt, 31 March, and n.3. For flour at Warwick, N.Y., see Timothy Pickering to GW, 12 May, and Charles Stewart to GW, 23 May.