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General Return of the Army of the UNITED COLONIES, commanded by his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander-in-Chief, Head-Quarters at CAMBRIDGE, NOVEMBER 18, 1775.

Regiments. Officers present. Rank and File. Waiting to complete. Since last Return.
Commissioned. Staff. Non-commissioned
Colonels. Lieut. Colonels. Majors. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Chaplains. Adjutants. Quarter
masters.		 Surgeons. Mates. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Present, fit for duty. Sick, present. Sick, absent. On Furlough. On Command. Total. Sergeants. Drums and Fifes. Privates. Enlisted. Dead. Discharged. Deserted.
1. Colonel Frye’s - 1 - 5 11 - - 1 - 1 1 20 11 319 31 22 31 72 475 - 5 25        
2. Colonel Thompson’s 1 1 1 5 16 - 1 1 1 1 - 23 5 322 36 38 2 42 440 - - - - - 7  
3. Colonel Reed’s 1 1 1 6 6 7 1 1 1 - 1 25 13 285 26 35 23 114 483 - - - - - 3 1
4. Colonel Learned’s 1 1 1 9 20 - 1 1 1 1 1 40 20 367 17 6 27 33 450 - - 50 - - 1  
5. Colonel Nixon’s - 1 1 5 10 - 1 1 1 - 1 21 18 197 37 34 18 110 396 - - 104        
6. Colonel Stark’s 1 - 1 8 7 4 1 1 1 1 - 28 19 290 33 29 25 130 507 - - - - - 3  
7. Colonel J. Brewer’s 1 1 1 6 10 - - 1 1 1 - 17 17 184 54 17 10 84 349 - - 151        
8. Colonel Fellows’s 1 1 1 10 18 - 1 1 1 1 1 39 20 304 46 14 8 94 466 1 - 34 - - 1  
9. Late Colonel D. Brewer’s - 1 1 8 17 - - 1 1 1 - 37 19 341 30 5 19 33 428 - - 72 - 1 2 1
10. Colonel Prescott’s 1 1 1 5 16 - - - 1 1 1 35 18 323 31 33 18 21 426 - - 74        
11. Colonel Poor’s 1 1 - 6 4 8 1 1 1 1 1 20 12 305 75 11 25 78 494 6 12 - - 1 10 1
12. Colonel Varnum’s - - - 4 4 4 - 1 1 - - 28 18 233 64 1 9 59 366              
13. Colonel Parsons’s 1 1 - 4 15 6 - 1 1 - - 46 27 468 57 7 104 79 715 1 - 65 - - 13  
14. Colonel Hitchcock’s - 1 1 8 6 7 - 1 1 1 1 16 15 248 43 6 18 82 397              
15. Colonel Church’s 1 1 1 8 4 4 - 1 1 - - 19 7 222 54 6 20 78 380              
16. Colonel Cotton’s 1 1 1 9 19 - 1 1 1 1 1 40 20 390 22 27 43 22 504              
17. Colonel Little’s 1 1 1 7 15 - 1 1 - 1 1 20 14 311 23 54 20 112 520              
18. Colonel Danielson’s 1 1 1 11 17 - - 1 1 1 1 39 20 314 34 1 20 85 454 - - 96        
19. Late Colonel Mansfield’s - - 1 6 13 - 1 1 1 1 1 24 16 275 20 28 28 115 466 - - 34        
20. Colonel Reed’s, of Uxbridge 1 1 1 9 12 - - 1 1 1 1 28 15 346 17 12 32 52 459 - 1 41        
21. Colonel Glover’s 1 1 1 5 7 - - 1 1 - - 23 11 191 15 14 18 253 491 - 8 9 - - - 8
22. Colonel Walker’s - 1 1 5 12 - 1 1 1 1 1 29 14 310 22 20 22 32 406 - 1 44 - - 1  
23. Colonel Whitcomb’s 1 1 1 11 22 - 1 1 1 1 1 44 14 339 35 29 34 60 497 - - 3 - - 4 1
24. Colonel Doolittle’s 1 1 - 7 15 - 1 1 1 1 1 30 17 246 25 43 11 68 393 - 3 107 - - 1  
25. Colonel Woodbridge’s 1 1 1 6 16 - - 1 1 1 1 22 16 271 23 25 16 70 405 1 4 95 - - 1 1
26. Colonel Patterson’s 1 1 1 8 16 - - 1 1 1 1 40 14 293 30 23 23 63 432 - 6 68 - 1 3  
27. Colonel Bridge’s 1 - 1 7 15 - - 1 1 1 1 26 16 321 36 40 14 49 460 - - 40 - - 1  
28. Colonel Sergeant’s 1 1 1 7 12 - 1 - 1 1 1 36 18 279 36 23 25 49 412 - - 88        
29. Colonel Huntington’s 1 1 - 7 14 6 1 1 1 1 1 38 16 335 45 19 58 76 533 - - 80 - - 3  
30. Colonel Seammons’s - 1 1 6 14 - 1 1 1 1 1 37 15 353 19 7 28 40 447 - 1 53        
31. Colonel Pbinney’s - 1 1 5 9 - - - 1 1 1 26 15 279 31 4 67 53 434 - - 66 - 1 11  
32. Colonel Ward’s 1 1 - 7 14 - 1 1 1 1 1 40 17 320 25 15 23 54 437 - 3 63 - - 1  
33. Colonel Wylley’s 1 - - 4 13 6 1 1 1 1 1 40 27 362 131 9 76 167 745 - 2 141 1 1 8  
34. Colonel Storrs’s 1 - 2 3 12 6 1 1 1 1 1 28 25 397 102 - 10 246 755 12 - - - - 10  
35. Colonel Bailey’s 1 1 1 9 14 - 1 1 1 1 1 33 18 327 10 33 12 82 464 1 - 36 - - 2  
36. Colonel Greaton’s 1 1 1 9 15 - - - 1 1 1 26 18 318 12 40 21 70 461 1 - 39        
37. Late Colonel Gardner’s - 1 1 9 14 - - 1 1 1 1 30 13 269 22 37 23 55 406 - - 94        
38. Late Colonel Gorrish’s - 1 1 10 19 - - 1 1 1 1 40 18 447 23 13 21 3 507 - 2 - - - 1  
39. Colonel Webb’s 1 1 1 9 17 9 1 1 1 1 2 45 28 431 46 9 10 77 573 - - - - - 9  
Four Companies Riflemen, from Va. and Md. - - - 3 9 - - - - - - 13 4 215 34 1 - 1 25              
Two Companies in Colonel Hinman’s Regiment, and four
Independent Companies.		 - 1 - 6 12 - - - - - - 24 12 394 - - - - 394              
Total.            28 34 32 282 529 67 21 35 37 33 33 1235 690 12741 1472 790 1012 3063 19078 23 38 1772 1 5 98 13

HORATIO GATES, Adjutant-General.

Return of the Regiment of Artillery in the service of the UNITED COLONIES, commanded by Col. RICHARD GRIDLEY, NOVEMBER 18, 1775.

  Colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel. Major. Captains. Captain-Lieutenan’s. First Lieutenants. Second Lieutenants. Adjutant. Quartermaster. Surgeon. Mate. Commissary. Clerks. Conductors. Sergeants. Corporals. Bombardiers. Gunners. Drums and Fifes. Matrosses. Total.
Fit for duty 1 1 1 6 9 7 15 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 20 22 43 42 17 218 413
Sick, present - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - 3 1 6 4 - 20 35
Sick, absent - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - 2 1 - 3 - 6 13
On furlough - - - 1 - 1 1 - - - - - - - 1 2 3 - 1 13 23
Total. 1 1 1 8 9 8 17 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 26 26 52 49 18 257 484

N. B. Two Cadets. One discharged and two deserted.

Return of Major JOHN CRANE’S Company of Artillery, in the service of the UNITED COLONIES, NOVEMBER 17, 1775.

  Major. Captain. Lieutenants. Conductor. Bombardiers. Sergeants. Gunners. Corpornls. Fifers. Drummers. Matrosses. Total.
Present on parade 1 - 3 1 2 2 3 4 1 2 64 83
Sick, present - - - - - - - - - - 6 6
Sick, absent - 1 - - - - - - - - 1 2
On furlough - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 2 4
Total.                   1 1 3 1 2 2 4 4 2 2 73 95

N. B. One discharged.

HORATIO GATES, Adjutant-General.

ORDERS BY GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, November 12, 1775.

(Parole, America.) (Countersign, Freedom.)

Each Colonel upon the new establishment to come to Head-Quarters to-morrow morning, ten o’clock, in order to receive from the Adjutant-General as many printed enlistments as there are commissioned officers in his Regiment. They will therefore without delay distribute one to each officer, who is forthwith to proceed to enlist men for their respective Regiments, in the Continental Army; the soldiers, as the printed enlistments express, to be engaged to serve until the last day of December, 1776.

In the general orders of the 31st of October it is declared, that every non-commissioned officer and soldier shall be paid by the calendar month, as follows: to a Sergeant, forty-eight Shillings; to the Corporals, forty-four; and forty to each Private; which pay, it is expected, will be regularly distributed every month. Each non-commissioned officer and soldier (drums and fifes excepted) is to furnish his own arms; if arms are found him, he is to allow six shillings, at the end of the campaign, for the use thereof. New clothing will forthwith be provided for every non-commissioned officer and soldier, for which an easy stoppage, of only ten shillings a month, will be made out of his pay, until the whole is paid. Two dollars will be allowed to each non-commissioned officer and soldier who provides himself with a good blanket, and liberty to take it away at the end of the campaign. The present ample allowance of provisions will be continued, and those who enlist will be indulged in a reasonable time to visit their families, in the course of the winter. This to be regulated in; such a manner as not to weaken the Army or injure the service.

To prevent such contentions as have arisen from the same

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