Letter from Massachusetts Council to Colonel Willard: Orders

Council Chamber, September 7, 1776.

SIR: You are hereby directed and commanded to take into your regiment a company of men commanded by Captain John Wentworth, now on Dorchester Heights, and give direction to said Captain to march said company immediately to the Northern Department of the American army, by the same routes the other part of your regiment were ordered to march; and you are further directed and commanded to take into your regiment a company of men lately marched from the County of Middlesex, under the command of Captain Sargent, and you are to give directions to said Captain respecting marching his company and joining your regiment, as you shall think best, having regard to former orders received from the Board respecting marching your regiment.

In the name and per order of the Council:

JOHN AVERT, Deputy Secretary.

To Colonel Aaron Willard.