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General Orders, 18 October 1775

General Orders

Head Quarters, Cambridge, Octr 18th 1775.

Parole Wilkes.Countersign Cambden

The General Court Martial ordered to sit this day, at Roxbury, is postponed until Friday morning next, at Nine ’OClock Brigadier Genl Thomas being obliged to attend this forenoon at Head quarters.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. John Thomas, who attended this day’s council of war at Cambridge, was president of Col. David Brewer’s court-martial. See General Orders, 15 Oct. 1775. The following Friday was 20 October.

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    “General Orders, 18 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0173. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 183.]