General Orders, December 18

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Head-Quarters, Cambridge, December 18, 1775.

(Parole, Lechmere.) (Countersign, Scars)

The Colonels and commanding officers of Regiments and Corps are to deliver to the Adjutant-General, at orderly time next Saturday, their pay abstracts for the months of October, November and December; also, an abstract for the month of January next, for each of the new established Corps, the honourable the Continental Congress, having been pleased to order all those who have bravely resolved to serve this country another year, shall be rewarded with one month' s pay advance.