sentries posted, is to receive his orders from Doctor Church, Director of the General Hospital of the Army of the United Colonies.

The Quartermaster-General and Commissary-General are to see strict regard paid to the sixth article of the General Orders of the 7th July last, as complaints are continually making of the badness of the bread served to the Regiments.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 30, 1775.

One Field-Officer, six Captains, twelve Subalterns, twelve Sergeants, twelve Corporals, two Drums, two Fifes, and three hundred Soldiers, from Heath’s Brigade, and the same from the Cambridge Brigade, to parade as soon as the weather is fair, to march to Ploughed Hill; one Surgeon and one Mate from each Brigade, to be provided with proper instruments and dressings, are to be ready to march with the above detachment.

By the Orders of the 17th instant, Thomas Chase, Esq., was, to the prejudice of Samuel Brewer, Esq., through mistake, appointed to be continued to do duty to Brigadier-General Thomas’s Brigade, as Major of Brigade. His Excellency orders that mistake to be rectified, and directs Samuel Brewer to be continued to act as Major of Brigade to Brigadier-General Thomas. He is to be obeyed as such.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 31, 1775.

The Colonels or Officers commanding of each Regiment of the Massachusetts Forces are without delay to make cut an exact abstract, for the month of August, of the pay due to the Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers and private Soldiers of each Regiment, who were effective in the said Regiment during that month, and who continue to be effective in the same. This abstract must be signed by the Colonel, or officer commanding each Regiment of the Massachusetts Forces, and forthwith delivered by him to the Cornmander-in-Chief, to the end that each of those Regiments may immediately be paid one month’s pay.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 1, 1775.

Complaint has been made to the General that the body of a soldier, of Colonel Woodbridge’s Regiment, has been taken from his grave by persons unknown. The General and the friends of the deceased are desirous of all the information that can be given of the perpetrators of this abominable crime, that he or they may be made an example, to deter others from committing so wicked and shameful an offence.

The magazine guard, in the rear of General Sullivan’s Brigade, to be relieved to-morrow morning by the Brigade posted in and near Cambridge.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 2, 1775.

Captain Edward Crafts, of Colonel Gridley’s Regiment of Artillery, tried yesterday by a General Court-Martial, is acquitted of that part of the charge against him which relates to “defrauding of his men;” and the Court are also of opinion, that no part of the charge against the prisoner is proved, except that of “using abusive expressions to Major Gridley,” which being a breach of the forty-ninth article of the Rules and Regulations for the Massachusetts Army, sentence the prisoner to receive a severe reprimand from the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Artillery, in the presence of all the officers of the Regiment; and that he, at the same time, ask pardon of Major Gridley for the said abusive language.

Lieutenant Russell, of Captain Symond’s Company, in the Twenty-First Regiment of Foot, tried by the above Court-Martial for “disobedience of orders,” is unanimously acquitted by the Court. The General confirms the proceedings and sentence of the above Court-Martial.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 3, 1775.

Benjamin Child, soldier in Colonel Glover’s Regiment, and in Captain Broughton’s Company, tried by a General Court-Martial, upon an appeal from a Regimental Court-Martial. The Court were unanimously of opinion the proceedings of the Regimental Court were irregular, and therefore acquit the prisoner.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 5, 1775.

The General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Experience Starrs was President, is dissolved. Capt. Moses Hart, of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment of Foot, tried by the above mentioned General Court-Martial, is found guilty of “drawing for more provisions than he was entitled to, and for unjustly confining and abusing his men;” he is unanimously sentenced to be cashiered. The General approves the sentence, and orders it to take place immediately.

A detachment, consisting of two Lieutenant-Colonels, two Majors, ten Captains, thirty Subalterns, thirty Sergeants, thirty Corporals, four Drummers, two Fifers, and six hundred and seventy-six Privates, to parade to-morrow morning, at eleven o’clock, upon the Common in Cambridge, to go upon command with Colonel Arnold, of Connecticut; one Company of Virginia Riflemen, and two Companies from Colonel Thompson’s Pennsylvania Regiment of Riflemen, to parade at the same time and place, to join the above detachment. Tents and necessaries proper and convenient for the whole will be supplied by the Quartermaster-General immediately upon the detachment being collected. As it is imagined the officers and men sent from the Regiments, both here and at Roxbury, will be such Volunteers as are active woodsmen, and well acquainted with batteaus, so it is recommended that none but such will offer themselves for this service. Colonel Arnold and the Adjutant-General will attend upon the Common in Cambridge to-morrow, in the forenoon, to receive and parade the detachment. The Quartermaster-General will be also there, to supply tents, &c.

The Colonels and Commanding Officers of the Massachusetts Regiments, who have delivered in their pay abstracts at Head-Quarters, are immediately to apply to the General for his warrant upon the Paymaster-General, James Warren, Esq., for the pay for the month of August, agreeable to the General Order of the 31st of last month.

As great complaints have therefore been made by the men in regard to their pay, the General expects the utmost exactness and despatch be made in this payment.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 6, 1775.

Whereas a number of pretended Sutlers, utterly disregarding the good of the service, sell liquor to every one indiscriminately, to the utter subversion of all order and good government, the Troops being continually debauched, which causes them to neglect their duty, and to be guilty of all those crimes which a vicious ill habit naturally produces: To prevent such evils from spreading in the camp, no person is for the future to presume to sell any stores or liquor to the Troops, unless he be first appointed Sutler to some Regiment, by the Colonel or officer commanding the same, who will immediately punish such Sutler for any transgression of the Rules and Orders he is, directed to observe. And if any person not regularly authorized and appointed shall presume to sell liquor or stores to the Troops in the camp, it is recommended to the Brigadier-General to issue an order for securing their persons and effects; the delinquent to be punished at the discretion of a General Court-Martial, and his effects to be applied for the refreshment of the fatigue-men and out-guards belonging to the Brigade. This order is not meant to extend to those Sutlers who are appointed by Government, and who are permitted to act as Sutlers to the Regiments for which they were appointed; they being subject to all Rules and Regulations of the Army, the same as if appointed by the Colonels.

As the remoteness of some of the Regiments from Head-Quarters renders it difficult to send invitations to the officers, the Commander-in-Chief requests, that for the future the Field-Officer of the day, the Officer of his own guard, and the Adjutant of the day, consider themselves invited to dine at Head-Quarters; and this general invitation they are desired to accept accordingly.