teen pound shot;forty sets of garrison wheels; five tons of grape shot; four tons of hand grenades, for boats; ten tons of pots and kettles.

The furnace cannot be put into blast in less than one month; and if not determined upon and ordered directly, no furnace will be in blast till next March.

Also to provide—ten twenty-four pound cannon, and ten eighteen pound do., or twenty twenty-four pound do.; spare mortar beds; spare carriages; a quantity of three-inch plank and ten-inch timber, for platforms.

Submitted by your Excellency’s most obedient servant,

RICHARD GRIDLEY, Chief Engineer.

September 30, 1775.

ORDERS BY GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 22, 1775.

The undernamed prisoners,tried by a General Court-Martial for “mutiny, riot, and disobedience of orders, ” are severally guilty of the crimes wherewith they are accused; and the Court, upon due consideration of the evidence, do adjudge that the prisoner, Joseph Seales, receive thirtynine lashes upon his bare back, and be drummed out of the Army; and that the prisoners, John Gillard, Jacob Small-wood, John Peltro, Samuel Grant, Hugh Renny, James Jeffery, Charles Alcrain, Samuel Hannis, Charles Pearce, James Williams, John Kelly, John Bryan, and Philip Florence, do each of them receive twenty lashes upon his bare back, and be drummed out of the Army. The prisoners, Lawrence Blake, Samuel Bodin, John Besom, Benj. Bartholomew, Francis Ellis, Joseph Lawrence, John Sharp, John Poor, Joseph Fessenden, John Foster, John Lee, Lawrence Barllett, Philip Greatey, Peter Neivelle, Samuel Parsons, Jeremiah Daily, Francis Greater, Richard Pendrick, Robert Hooper, Anthony Lewis, Nicholas Ogleby, and Thomas Metyard, be fined twenty Shillings, lawful money, each. Joseph Foster, Joseph Lawrence, and Joseph Fessenden, being recommended by the Court-Martial as proper objects of mercy, the Commander-in-Chief is pleased to remit their fine, and to order the sentence upon all the others to be put in execution at guard mounting to-morrow morning. Those upon Prospect-Hill to receive their punishment there; the rest at the main guard.

John Gizzage Fraizer, Esq., being appointed Assistant to the Quartermaster-General, for the District of Prospect and Winter Hill, he is to be obeyed as such.

Colonel Stark, of New-Hampshire, having complained that, through mistake or inadvertency in the Court which was appointed to settle the ranks of the Regiments and Officers of this Army, he had not justice done him, even upon the principle which they themselves had laid down for their government in that matter, the General orders that the Brigadier and the six Field-Officers who composed that Court do sit to-morrow morning, at nine o’clock, to inquire into the cause of this complaint; at the same time of Col. Doolittle, who has also expressed some dissatisfaction on account of his rank. If he can urge any thing new to the Court, he may be heard. The Court are desired likewise to settle the rank of the Officers of the Rifle Companies posted at Roxbury

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 24, 1775.

Major Scarborough Gridley, tried at a late General Court-Martial, whereof Brigadier-General Greene was President, for “being deficient in his duty upon the 17th of June last, the day of the action upon Bunker’s Hill,” the Court find Major Scarborough Gridley guilty of a breach of orders. They do therefore dismiss him from the Massachusetts service; but on account of his inexperience and youth, and the great confusion which attended that day’s transaction in general, they do not consider him incapable of a Continental Commission, should the General Officers recommend him to his Excellency.

The General confirms the dismission of Major Scarborough Gridley, and orders it to take place accordingly.

George Hamilton, a Soldier in Captain Dexter’s Company, in Colonel Woodbridge’s Regiment, tried at a General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Nixon was President, for “stealing a blue great coat, the property of Solomon Lathorp. ” The Court find the prisoner guilty of the charge, and sentence him to receive thirty lashes upon the bare back, and be drummed out of the Army, and order his Captain to deduct ten Shillings and ten Pence, lawful money, out of his pay, and pay it to Mr. Penyer, for so much paid by him to the prisoner on the coat, and that the coat be returned to Mr. Lathorp.

Jonathan Sharpe, of Captain Loise’s Company, in Colonel J. Phinney’s Regiment, tried at the same Court-Martial, for “stealing cartridges from his comrades, ” is acquitted.

The General orders the sentence upon the prisoner, Hamilton, to be executed, and the prisoner, Sharpe, to be released.

The General directs the following Minutes, from the House of Representatives of this Colony, to be inserted in the General Orders:

“In the House of Representatives, September23, 1775.

“ Resolved, That the Speaker, Mr. Gerry, and Major Hawley, be, and they hereby are appointed a Committee to apply to his Excellency George Washington, Esquire, with a desire of this House that he will, as soon as may be, cause a return to be made of the names of the officers and men to each Regiment established by this Colony, and now in the American Army respectively belonging, including such of each Regiment as are deceased since its establishment, or as have been draughted for the detachment ordered to Quebeck; and specifying the names of the Towns and other places from which they were respectively enlisted, in order to enable the Court to rectify and prevent any errour in accounts, which have been or may be rendered for payment of Blankets and other articles supplied the Soldiers according to the terms of their enlistment.

“A true copy from the Minutes.

The inquiry into the conduct of Doctor Church, Director-General of the Hospital, and the respective Regimental Surgeons, to be held to-morrow, in Colonel Frye’s Brigade.

The General Court-Martial, whereof Brigadier-General Greene is President, is dissolved.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, September 25, 1775.

As frequent applications to the Major-Generals for furloughs have become very troublesome, and take up much of their time, the following method of granting them for the future is to be observed, and under no pretence whatsoever to be dispensed with, until farther orders on this head, viz:

The Colonels or Commanding Officers of Regiments or Corps, when they find it really requisite, and not else, have permission to give furloughs to the Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the Corps they respectively command, provided they do not suffer more than two Privates to be absent at any one time from a Company, and not more than one Non-Commissioned Officer; nor allowing any person to be absent from his duty more than twenty days in six months. In extraordinary cases, a farther indulgence may be given by the General of Brigade, upon application from the Colonel. All Commissioned Officers are to apply for leave of absence through their own Colonel or Commanding Officer, to the General of Brigade to which they belong, who is desired never to suffer more than one Field-Officer, and four others, to be absent at any one time from a Regiment, nor for more than twenty days in six months. In extraordinary cases, a farther indulgence may be given by the Major-General commanding each Division, upon the application of the Brigadier of his Division.

As the Committee have settled the rank between Col. Stark and Colonel Jonathan Brewer, the General desires the Colonels of the Regiments Nos. 6, 7, and 8, will apply immediately for Continental Commissions for the Officers of their respective Corps; and that the three next Regiments in succession will apply to-morrow morning, and so three every morning afterwards, until the whole are served.