Captain Jedediah Rodgers of the Cavalry in the Service of the United States, Sir, Your detachment having been mustered and inspected, and being prepared for marching for the frontiers, you are to commence your march accordingly for Pittsburg. Your route will be from New Brunswick to Trenton in New Jersey, from thence to Reading in Pennsylvania, thence through Carlisle — Shippinsburg — Bedford to Pittsburg. you will draw provisions at New Brunswick — Trenton — Reading — Carlisle — Bedford and Pittsburg, from the Contractors. You will pursue your march with all diligence consistently with the health of your men. You will keep a regular journal, noteing the weather and distances of each day's march; a copy of which you are to transmit to the War Office; and also of the time of your arrival. On your arrival at that place you will receive further orders from Major General Wayne. The expences incident to the march, such as drum, forriages and fuel, are to be paid for, and regular accounts and vouchers are to be obtained for every payment. — You have furnished you on this account, the sum of [undecipherable] dollars, for which you are held accountable. Every Officer commanding a detachment of the troops of the United States, while on the march to the frontiers, will be held responsible, that the conduct of his detachment shall to conform to the most perfect good order and discipline. The civil authority is to be held in the highest respect. The inhabitants on the route are to be treated with civility and decency; any offence against this order, is to be punished on the spot. No property of any sort is to be taken without a fair purchase and payment. The troops are to be encamped every evening, and the officers are always to encamp with their companies. Given at the War Office of the United States, the 1^st July 1792. [signature]