1General Orders, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Passes signed by the Quarter Master-General, or his Assistant Mr Hughes for persons in that department to cross the Ferries to be admitted as sufficient. Thomas Herbert of Capt. Wyllys’s Company, Col. Sergents Regiment, tried by a regimental Court Martial and convicted of “Theft” was sentenced to receive Thirty-nine Lashes; but having appealed to a General Court Martial whereof Col. Webb was...