to no small share of credit, in readily giving up the Regiment which he was appointed to command, to Colonel Whitcomb. Colonel Whitcomb, therefore, is, from hence-forward, to be considered as Colonel of that Regiment which was intended for Colonel Brewer, and Colonel Brewer will be appointed Barrackmaster, until something better worth his acceptance can be provided.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, November 17, 1775.

Lieutenant Correy, of Colonel Prescott’s Regiment, tried at a late General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Patterson was President, for “forgery, and defrauding his men of their pay.” The Court were unanimously of opinion, that Lieutenant Correy was guilty of defrauding some of his men of their blanket money, and of attempting to defraud others of their coat money, and therefore adjudge the prisoner to be cashiered. The General approves, and orders the sentence to take place immediately.

Representations having been made to the Continental Congress of the great inequality in the pay of the officers and soldiers of the Army, this first being lower than usual, and less than was ever given to commissioned officers in any other service, whilst that of the soldiers is higher, the Congress have been pleased to increase the pay of Captain to twenty-six and two-third dollars; of a First Lieutenant to eighteen dollars; of a Second Lieutenant and Ensign to thirteen and one-third dollars, per calendar month each, to take place so soon as the new Regiments are completed to their full complement of men. The Congress have given this encouragement to the Captains and Subalterns, (whose pay was lower in proportion,) with a view to impress upon their minds a due sense of gratitude, at the same there that it is intended to enable them to support the character and appearance of gentlemen and officers, which will add much to the reputation of the Regiments, and cannot but be pleasing to every man in it. It is expected that the officers of the new-formed Regiments will exert themselves in the recruiting service, and that they do not fail to report the number they have, recruited to their Colonels to-morrow, that they may make returns thereof the day after, in order that the recruiting parties may be sent into the country if any backwardness should appear here. When this happens, the Colonels of the old Regiments are to be consulted, to prevent the Companies therein being left without officers.

As furloughs have been promised to the new enlisted men, none others can be indulged under any pretence whatsoever; and in order that these furloughs may be given with some degree of regularity, none but the Colonels or commanding officers of Regiments, upon the new establishment, are to grant then, and they respectively not to let more than fifty be absent at a time, beginning with those who enlisted first, and going on in a regular rotation, until all are indulged, allowing each man ten days to be at home, and a sufficient time to go and return.

The Colonels or commanding officers of the new established Regiments are to meet at the Quartermaster-General’s, in Cambridge, to-morrow, at eleven o’clock, to fix upon the uniform of their respective Regiments, that the making the clothing may not be interrupted; without all are present this cannot be done, and the work must not be delayed.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, November 18, 1775.

There was a mistake in the entry of the general orders of yesterday. The honourable the Continental Congress have thought proper to allow the First and Second Lieutenants the same pay, viz: eighteen dollars a month to each, and the Ensigns thirteen dollars and one-third of a dollar.

The Commissary-General to order all the horns of the bullocks that are killed for the use of the Army to be saved and sent to the Quartermaster-General, who is also to provide as many as he can get, and have the whole made into good powder horns, for the use of the troops.

The honourable the Legislature of this Colony having thought fit to set apart Thursday, the 23d of November instant, as a day of publick Thanksgiving,“to offer up our praises and prayers to Almighty God, the source and benevolent bestower of all good, that he would be pleased graciously to continue to smile upon our endeavours; to restore peace, preserve our rights and privileges, to the latest posterity; prosper the American arms, preserve and strengthen the harmony of the United Colonies, and avert the calamities of a civil war:” the General therefore commands that day to be observed with all the solemnity directed by the legislative Proclamation; and all officers, soldiers and others, are hereby directed, with the most unfeigned devotion, to obey the same.

Any non-commissioned officers and soldiers, confined on account of leaving the detachment commanded by Colonel Arnold, in any of the main or quarter guards of the Army, are to be immediately released.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, November 19, 1775.

The Brigadier-Generals to make returns of the number of teams necessary to furnish their respective divisions with wood, and the teams appointed for each division to be continually employed in the service of that division, and not to be shifted from one division to another, as great confusion arises thereby; some Regiments having a double stock of wood, while others are suffering for want. The Quartermaster-General to provide the teants returned necessary for the above service, and direct the Wagoomaster-General to continue them in that employ.

All persons are strictly prohibited purchasing any clothes from the non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Any person violating this order to be sent prisoner to the main guard, by the Colonel or officer commanding the Regiment, the clothes belong to; the clothes to be forthwith delivered up, and the loss sustained to fall upon the purchaser.

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ( VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

Pursuant to an Ordinance of the General Convention, held at Richmond, July 17, 1775, the Freeholers for the County of Prince Edward assembled themselves at the Court-House of the said County, on Monday, the 20th of November, (being court-day,) in order to elect twenty-one of the most discreet, fit, and able persons, to serve as Committee-Men for the said County; and after having delivered their list, which were fairly counted, in the presence of so many of the Committee as chose to attend, the majority of the votes appeared in favour of the following persons, viz.: Robert Lawson, John Nash, Jr., William Booker, William. Bibb, Nathaniel Venable, James Allen, Sr., Thomas Scott, Sr. John Morton, the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, John Nash, Sr. the Rev. Richard Sankey, John Halcombe, Henry Walker, Thomas Flournoy, James Clarke, Obadiah Woodson, David Walker, John Watson, Philemon Halcombe, Joseph Parks, and Andrew Baker, Gentlemen; who are accordingly considered as a Committee for the County aforesaid, publication having been duly made of the same.

John Nash, Sr., Esquire, was unanimously elected Chairman of the said Committee, and Mr. Benjamin Lawson, Clerk.

Resolved, unanimously, That as the assuming to ourselves unlimited powers in our proceedings may be in the end dangerous to, and subversive of, the just rights and privileges of our electors, that we will therefore confine ourselves literally with the line of duty marked out to us by the Continental Congress and the Colonial Convention; whose laws we will endeavour to make the rule of our conduct, and which to fulfil, so far as we can effect, we will exert our most ardent efforts.

This Committee, finding that there is no great prospect of a reconciliation shortly between Great Britain and her American Colonies, from any thing that has as yet transpired to their knowledge, and taking under their most serious consideration the miserable and pitiable state of the people in the interior parts of the Colony, obliged as they are, by the infernal and implacable fury of Lord Dunmore, to forsake their houses and habitations, and fly with precipitation for safety to places more remote from his inhuman aim, do therefore, in commiseration of their unhappy sufferings, hereby beg leave to preset their respectful compliments to such of their distressed fellow-creatures; at the same time assuring them, that should they, in those times