in vessels and flour covered in Philadelphia at ten percent., which will not bring the flour, delivered at New-buryport, up to thirteen Shillings, lawful money of New-England; whereas the lowest we get flour at from Connecticut is thirteen Shillings per hundred weight there, and Seven Shillings per hundred weight carting; a saving worth while may be made. But as his mode is attended with a risk, the Commissary, in this as in every other case, thinks it his duty to apply to your Excellency for direction, and likewise to hint to your Excellency that it may occasion no material delay, if you should lay the matter before Congress for their advice, as the business must be transacted where that body are now convened.

The Commissary-General also requests direction from your Excellency, as to procuring pork, for supplying the Army the winter and summer next coming. The season for killing pork is approaching, when he can purchase that article, in any quantities, in the country, drive it in, and have it killed and salted at proper places, within twenty miles of camp, and thereby save transportation. The transportation of much the greatest part of the pork supplied to the Army the summer past has cost twenty and twenty-one Shillings per barrel. The pork may be put up here as cheap as in Connecticut, and the whole transportation saved. Salt, barrels, &c., can be had here; and on a quantity sufficient for twenty thousand men one year, more than ten thousand Pounds may be saved; and should the war be at an end, the pork will fetch its first cost, at least, when the trade opens.

ORDERS BY GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Head Quarters, Cambridge, August 24, 1775.

Lieutenant William Ryan, of Colonel Nixon’s Regiment, tried by a General Court-Martial, of which Lieutenant-Colonel Brickett was President, is found guilty of a breach of the sixth and forty-ninth articles of the Rules and Regulations for the Massachusetts Army, and is unanimously adjudged to be cashiered. The General approves the sentence, and orders it to take place immediately.

The Quartermaster-General is to see that the different Brigades, or at least each Division of the Army, are provided with Armourers, sufficient to keep the Arms therein in proper repair; that they have proper places provided to work in, that they are properly attended to, to prevent impositions of any kind. He is also to employ brickmakers, under the care of Captain Francis, of Colonel Mansfield’s Regiment, and set them to make bricks immediately. The necessary attendance is to be applied for by Captain Francis to the Adjutant-General.

The. Quartermaster-General is also to receive from the General Court of the Massachusetts Government, or from such persons as they shall appoint to deliver them, all the shirts, shoes and stockings, breeches and waistcoats, which have been provided by order of their Committee of Safety, for the use of the Army, and settle for the same, and not deliver any from his store without an order in writing from the Commander-in-Chief.

An exact return of the Company of Artificers, under the care of Mr. Ayrcs, to be given in, where they have been to work, and how employed.

The General would be glad to have the Rules and Regulations of War (as established by the Continental Congress) returned to him signed, as he will thereupon proceed to distribute the Continental Commissions, agreeable to the rank lately settled.

The late Paymaster of the Massachusetts Forces is once more called upon in a peremptory manner to settle his accounts with the different Regiments, that it may be known what money is due to the men up to the first of this month (August.) The General is sorry that any difficulty or delay should have happened in a matter so plain and simple in its nature. He now assures the Regiments of Massachusetts, as they seem to be the only complainants and sufferers, that if they do not get paid by their own Colony Paymaster before the first day of September, that he will order James Warren, Esq., Continental Paymaster-General, to pay each of the Massachusetts Regiments for the month of August, and that he will more over use his endeavours to have their pay up to the first of August settled for and adjusted as soon as possible.

Twenty men, from Colonel Mansfield’s Regiment, and ten from Colonel Gardiner’s, and two from each of the other Regiments in the lines and in Cambridge, to be sent to join Captain Francis, of Colonel Mansfield’s Regiment, to be forthwith employed in making of bricks; none but men who are acquainted with that service to be sent upon it.

Colonel Prescott, with two Companies of his Regiment, to march to Sewall’s Point this day. The Colonel will apply to the Quartermaster-General for the tents that will be wanted for this detachment.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 25, 1775.

If the Officers who were sent upon the recruiting service are not all returned to camp, they are to be forthwith recalled, and no more men are to be enlisted until further orders.

The Company late under the command of Captain Ebenezer Lindsey is to join Colonel Woodbridge’s Regiment, as that Regiment has at present only nine Companies.

As the Commander-in-Chief has heretofore approved all the sentences of the General Courts-Martial which have been laid before him, and thought himself happy in agreeing with them in opinion, so will he not now disapprove the judgment respecting Ensign Joshua Trofton, as the Court have intimated that they were influenced by some favourable circumstances. Disobedience of orders is amongst the first and most atrocious of all military crimes. He desires that the conduct of Ensign Joshua Trofton (however he may have been provoked) may never be drawn into a precedent, as there are certain modes by which inferiour officers may obtain redress of grievances, without proceeding to any unjustifiable acts of violence.

Ensign Joshua Trofton, of the 30th Regiment of Foot, in the service of the United Colonies, commanded by Colonel Scammons, tried by a General Court-Martial for “offering to strike his Colonel, and for disobedience of orders,” is found guilty of a breach of the sixth article of the Rules and Regulations of the Massachusetts Army, and sentenced to be confined to his tent for three days.

A Return, signed by the Commanding Officer of each Regiment, of the Commissioned Offices vacant, distinguishing their names, rank, and by what means vacant. This must be delivered to the Adjutant-General, at orderly time, to-morrow.

Head Quarters, Cambridge, August 27, 1775.

General Sullivan’s Brigade to be mustered upon Monday morning next, in the manner and form directed by the General Orders of the 21st instant.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 28, 1775.

As the extraordinary duty necessary for some days past prevents the mustering General Sullivan’s Brigade this morning, the General appoints Friday morning next for that purpose, and orders that Brigade to be relieved from all but the ordinary camp duty of their particular encampments Thursday morning, that they may have that day to prepare for their mustering.

As nothing is more pernicious to the health of soldiers, nor more certainly productive of the bloody flux, than drinking new cider, the General in the most positive manner commands the entire disuse of the same, and orders the Quartermaster-General this day to publish advertisements, to acquaint the inhabitants of the surrounding Districts that such of them as are detected bringing new cider into the camp after Thursday, the last day of this month, may depend on having their casks stove.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 29, 1775.

For the future, the several guards mounted upon the General Hospitals are to be reduced into one guard, consisting of one Subaltern, three Sergeants, three Corporals, one Fife, and thirty Men. The officer, after seeing his