William North
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Organization of Individual Regiments
03/12/1800 Autograph Letter SignedRoutine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
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Organization of Individual Regiments
02/11/1800 Letter SignedRoutine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
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Number & Quantity of Articles Allowed
04/23/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentNorth expresses the need for a regulation respecting the number and quantity of the articles allowed a regiment. Without such a regulation, there will be no uniformity in the demands of officers.
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Mustering, Paying, and Dismissing the Troops
05/26/1800 Copy of Signed DocumentThis General Order prescribes the date and manner in which troops are to be paid for the three months enlistment authorized by the Act of Congress and discusses the way in which pay is handled for …
Orderly Book of the Deputy Adjutant General to District Commander Maj. Gen. Charles C. Pinckney, Apr-Jun 1800. 1 Vol (No. 383/267). (RG98)- No image
Military Funerals and Executions, Etc.
03/27/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentNorth presents the regulations for conducting military funerals and executions, extracted from Reid & Symes and some borrowed from the regulations of Baron Steuben. Gives opinion on the effect the …
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Letter to Major General Hamilton
05/1800 Cited letter or documentLetter from Brigadier General William North to Major General Alexander Hamilton. Image not available.
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General Orders: Temporary Suspension of Recruiting Service
03/11/1800 Document SignedThe Recruiting Service, respecting the twelve Regiments of Infantry and six troops of Light Dragoons, is for the present suspended. All officers assigned to that service will rejoin their Regiments.
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General Orders: Regulations Governing the Transmission of Returns
03/28/1800 Copy of Signed DocumentNorth transmits General Orders related to Major General Hamilton's regulations governing officers in the transmission of their different returns.
Orderly Book of the Deputy Adjutant General to District Commander Maj. Gen. Charles C. Pinckney, Apr-Jun 1800. 1 Vol (No. 383/267). (RG98)
General Orders Regarding the Prohibition of Gambling.
01/10/1800 Letterbook CopyDescribes gambling as a vice and orders that no officer or solider may play cards or dice within one mile of the camp, garrison, or post at which he may be stationed.
Orderly Book for the Garrison at Fort Johnston, N.C., 1795-1811. (RG98)
General Orders pertaining to agents of Quarter Master Department
03/17/1800 Autograph Letter SignedStrictly outlines what temporary provisions and housing will be provided and how troops will conduct themselves. Discussed regulations governing building barracks and submission for reimbursement.
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General Orders
03/25/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentDescribed the events and conduct that lead to the court martial hearing of Lieut. Leybourne of the 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. Hamilton disapproved of Leybourne's sentence of "not …
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General Orders
01/27/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentNotification that the rules for enlistment were changed. Instead of recruits being placed with a specific corps or regiment, they are simply to be enlisted for service to be determined. Allowance …
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General Orders
03/27/1800 Document SignedGeneral and battalion orders from MG Hamilton: regulations for Paymaster General and Deputy Paymaster Generals, regarding the administration of pay and muster rolls, soldiers' pay, clothing, rations, …
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Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay
05/13/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document"Lists,'The difference between my report & that of Lt. Col. Commdt. Ogden respecting Arms, Camp Equipage &c &c to be allowed to the Troops.'"
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
04/19/1800 Autograph Letter SignedRoutine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
02/11/1800 Autograph Letter SignedRoutine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
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[General Orders]
03/21/1800 Document SignedStipulates regulations for general courts-martial, such as that offenders' pay be stopped; that their rank, station, and unit be declared in such proceedings; that copies of all pertinent documents be …
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[General Orders]
03/17/1800 Document SignedDeals with regulations for barracks and quarters; authorizes officers to make regulations where none apply.
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[General Orders]
03/18/1800 Document SignedEstablishes general rules concerning contracts for fresh meat and salt. Directs the quantity of vinegar to be distributed as rations, to be obtained from contractors. Concludes with regulation for …
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[Extract of General Orders from Jan. 10th 1800 of Adjutant General's Office]
01/10/1800 ExtractNorth directs that pay and muster rolls are to be forwarded to the Deputy Paymaster at New York through the paymasters of the individual regiments. Gambling forbidden, with stipulative rules.
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