General Orders, 25 April 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Morristown Tuesday April 25th 1780
Parole Tingre Countersigns Noailles, Beauview.
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Hand[,] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Hubley[,] Brigade Major 1st Pennsylvania brigade
All the Officers and men belonging to Colonel Dayton’s regiment now in Camp are to march tomorrow morning and join the detachment under Major Burrows1 who with the officers and men from the other regiments of the Jersey Brigade will immediately return to Camp.
The Commander in Chief at the request of the Minister of France has the pleasure to inform Major General the Baron de Steuben and the officers and men of the four Battalions that the appearance and manœuvres of the Troops yesterday met His entire Approbation and afforded him the highest Satisfaction.2
Varick transcript, DLC:GW, ser. 3, subseries G, letter book 5; Varick transcript, DLC:GW, ser. 3, subseries G, letter book 4.
1. Maj. John Burrowes had been ordered to lead a detachment to New Brunswick, N.J., to guard flour (see William Livingston to GW, 20 April, n.3).
2. For French minister La Luzerne’s review of Continental army exercises, see GW to Jedediah Huntington, 20 April, source note.