George Washington Papers

General Orders, 6 October 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Moore’s House [West Point]
Wednesday Octr 6th 1779.

Parole Vergennes— C. Signs Luzerne Sartine—

All the non commissioned officers and privates in the brigades at and near this post who are Ship-Carpenters or acquainted with making tents, not already employed in the Q.M. Genl’s Department, are to be drafted and sent to the Qu. M. Genl’s Markee tomorrow morning 8 ôclock where they will receive their orders.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For the purposes of these details, see GW to Nathanael Greene, this date.

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    General Orders, 6 October 1779
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    “General Orders, 6 October 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-22-02-0520. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 22, 1 August–21 October 1779, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, p. 641.]