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Description: General orders of George Washington, Continental Army; three sections corresponding to three days: the first section is the end of a trial verdict and sentence; the second section names a date for execution of the sentence; the third section is the beginning of an order naming Captain Nicholas Gilman of the Third New Hampshire Regiment and Captain John Singer Dexter of the First Rhode Island Regiment as assistants to the adjutant general. George Washington Papers, Series 3g, Varick Transcripts
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