General Orders, 1 June 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Morristown Thursday June 1st 1780
Parole Luxemburgh Countersigns Lyme Lynn
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Jackson[,] Major Clifton[,] Brigadier Major Van Laer
A trusty Serjeant Corporal and nine men from Stark’s brigade with their Arms blankets and three days provisions to be sent to the Adjutant General’s quarters 8 o clock tomorrow morning to guard some Prisoners of War to Philadelphia.1
At a General Court martial of the Line where of Colonel Gansevoort was president May 25th Lieutenant Hunt of the 4th New York regiment was tried charged with “Marching the old Main Guard of the 11th of May last, to camp in a disorderly manner and permitting the men to straggle contrary to the ordinance of the Army.”2
The Court on mature Consideration of the charge and the Evidence are of opinion that Lieutenant Hunt is Guilty of the Charge against him being in breach of that part of the 3d Article of the 22d Chapter of the regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops which respects marching an old Guard to Camp and do sentence Lieutenant Hunt to be reprimanded in General orders.3
The Conduct of Lieutenant Hunt was highly unmilitary and blameable—Too frequent instances occur of similar irregularities and they are at all times inexcuseable.
Lieutenant Hunt is released from his arrest.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton wrote an officer commanding a party of Continental troops: “Mr. [Samuel Witham] Stockton informs his Excellency that a number of articles belonging to him were plundered out of the waggons in the late robbery by the tories in the Clove, part of which articles he has reason to believe are distributed among the inhabitants in the neighbourhood. The General directs will give Mr. Stockton all the assistance in your power to recover his property” (, 2:333).
1. On 29 May, Abraham Skinner, acting commissary general of prisoners, wrote from headquarters to Thomas Bradford, his deputy at Philadelphia. Skinner’s letter reads in part: “Herewith you will receive Ten Prisoners of War agreable to the inclosed List. I am directed by his Excellency the Commander in Chief to forward them to some convenient place and as I know of none more so than you[r] G[ao]l I hope you will give the necessary Order⟨s⟩ for their reception at that place” (PHi: Thomas Bradford Papers).
2. Thomas Hunt (1746–1818), of Stillwater, N.Y., joined the 4th New York Regiment as a lieutenant in November 1776. He left the army in January 1781 when his regiment disbanded, but later served as a captain and adjutant of New York state troops. New York governor George Clinton, then a brigadier general of militia, had described Hunt in November 1776 as “very sensible, Active & faithful & well educated” (, 1:427–29).
3. The third article of the twenty-second chapter of the army’s regulations specified that the officer of the old, or relieved, guard should march his command back to camp “in order” (, 104).