General Orders, 6 May 1781
Head Quarters New Windsor Sunday May 6th 1781
Parole
Countersigns.
John Powel soldier in the New Hampshire line who was tried by a General Court martial the 27th of April and sentenced to suffer death which Sentence was approved and published in Orders the 30th of April is ordered to be executed on friday next the 11th instant.
DLC: Papers of George Washington.