General Orders, 27 November 1775

General Orders

Head Quarters, Cambridge, Novr 27th 1775

ParoleCountersign1

A Court of enquiry to sit to morrow Morning, to examine into the Conduct of Lieut. Col. Enos, who appears to have left Col. Arnold his commanding Officer without leave.2

Major Genl Lee President
Brigadier Genl Green.	Brigadier Genl Heath.
Col. Stark.	Col. Nixon.
Major Durkee.	Major Sherburne3
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Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Artemas Ward’s orderly book gives the parole as “Brookline” and the countersign as “Cambridge” (MHi).

2. For Roger Enos’s arrest and subsequent court-martial, see GW to Hancock, 28 Nov. and 11 Dec., and General Orders, 30 Nov. and 4 Dec. 1775. For the background of the case, see Enos to GW, 9 Nov. 1775.

3. Henry Sherburne (1747–1824), major of the 3d Rhode Island Regiment, served as colonel of one of the sixteen additional Continental regiments from January 1777 to May 1780. Sherburne retired from the army on 1 Jan. 1781.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders, 27 November 1775
Author: Washington, George
Date: 27 November 1775

Reference

Cite as: “General Orders, 27 November 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0397. [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. 433.]