George Washington Papers

Orders, 23 September 1756

Orders

Parole: Dublin.

Winchester, Thursday September 23d 1756.

Ensign Price to march the men under his command to-morrow morning, to their respective cantonments.1 The Quarter-master to provide a lock & key for the Town-house, and secure all the windows above and below with hides; and to employ the Drummers, and those of the Sentry now on guard, are likewise to assist to clean out the house.2

LB, DLC:GW. See the source line note, Orders, 9–13 Sept. 1756.

1. Leonard Price of Robert McKenzie’s company became a lieutenant in 1757 and remained in the Virginia Regiment until 1762. For details of Price’s career, see Orders, 29 Oct. 1755, n.1.

2. See Orders, 14–22 Sept. 1756.

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    “Orders, 23 September 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0357. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 413.]