General Orders, 6 March 1780
General Orders
Head-Quarters Morristown Monday March 6th 1780.
Parole Newnham— C. Signs Gratton. Recorder.
Two men, one from the 1st Pennsylvania brigade and one from the second, are to be sent to Mr Gambles’, the Commissary in Morristown to assist in securing the hides & tallow.
Returns of Drums, Drum heads and cords, fifes and fife cases on hand and wanting in the several brigades, and of those in the hands of the Conductors and Commissary of Military Stores to be made to the Adjutant General as soon as possible.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general orders: “Clintons and Starks Brigades will furnish the Fatigue for the New Orderly Room tomorrow and nex⟨t⟩ Day.
“The Maryland Division relieves the Morris Town Pickett Tomorrow. The second Maryland Brigade will furnish a fatigue party of a Corporal and four to build an Oven for Mr Ludwic the Baker in Morris Town” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).
On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Richard Kidder Meade wrote from headquarters to Ensign William Spencer: “I have made your request for leave of absence known to His Excellency & have the pleasure to inform you, that you have his permission, to halt at home or in any part of Virginia, until the state of your wound will enable you to join, & do duty in your regt—when that is the case it is expected that you will immediately repair to the Southward, & that you will in the mean time inform Genl Woodford or the commanding Officer of the Regt the cause of your delay” (DLC:GW).