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General Orders

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Head-Quarters, Cambridge, February 11, 1776.

(Parole, Bristol.) (Countersign, Hadley.)

Benjamin Woodman, of Captain Darby' s Company, in

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Colonel Prescott' s Regiment, tried at a late General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Hutchinson was President, for desertion, is found guilty by the Court, and sentenced to receive twenty lashes upon his bare back. The General approves the sentence, and orders it to be executed, at such time and place as Colonel Prescott shall think proper.

James McCormick, of Captain Farrington' s Company, in Colonel Sargent' s Regiment, tried at the above Court-Martial, for assaulting, beating, and robbing Samuel Marston, Sergeant in Colonel Poor' s Regiment, is found guilty by the Court, and sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes, and orders four pounds to be stopped out of his pay, to reimburse Sergeant Marston, what the prisoner robbed him of.

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