General Orders, 5 July 1776
General Orders
Head Quarters, New York, July 5th 1776.
Parole Cambridge.Countersign Durham.
Those Regiments who have not made a Return of their officers, their ranks and dates of their Commissions, agreeable to a former order1 are now called on to do it without delay and to mention in such Returns the Colony in which such Regiment was raised; the time when and period in which they inlisted, together with the vacancies in their respective regiments.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
172, includes the following advertisement at the end of the general orders for this date: “Lost this Morning a Pocket Book containing seven Guineas, two 8 Dollar Bills Continental Currency, one 1 Dollar Bill, one half Dollar & One shilling Bill New York Currency with a few Papers of no Value to any but the Owner. Any Person that delivers the same at Captain Hamiltons Quarters in Chapple Street shall receive a reward of five pounds. Tis Ordered for the future that no Advertizements be sent to Head Quarters to be inserted in the General Orders except very extraordinary.”
1. See General Orders, 26 June.