George Washington Papers

General Orders, 18 June 1777

General Orders

Head-Quarters, Middle-Brook, June 18th 1777.

Parole: Boundbrook.Countersigns: Bedford.
Boston.

Timothy Pickering Esqr: is appointed Adjutant General to the Continental Army—He is to be obeyed and respected as such.1 The General begs Col. Connor to accept his thanks, for his obliging and punctual discharge of the office, for the time he has acted as such.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Pickering served as adjutant general of the Continental army until January 1778 (see General Orders, 13 Jan. 1778).

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    General Orders, 18 June 1777
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    “General Orders, 18 June 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0065. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 10, 11 June 1777 – 18 August 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 65.]