[WASHINGTON GEORGE] Manuscript Orders of Marching issued at

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[WASHINGTON, GEORGE.] Manuscript "Orders of Marching," issued at the Middlebrook encampment on the day the flag was adopted. Possibly in the hand of Washington's aide-de-camp Stephen Moylan. 4 pages, folio; moderate to heavy bleed-through throughout, wear at edges affecting parts of several words, moderate wear at folds, later inked note in top margin of first page. [Middlebrook, NJ], 14 June 1777

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These detailed orders for troop movements were issued by Washington to his brigade commanders at the Middlebrook encampment, where his army was staring down Howe's larger British force in nearby New Brunswick. June 14 was the day Congress officially adopted the American flag, and tradition holds that the flag was first unfurled at Middlebrook on that very day, although the flag is not mentioned in this order.
This copy was possibly issued to Brigadier General George Weedon, who was leading a brigade at Middlebrook at that time. Published in Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, 10:34-36, from an alternate copy. Provenance: G.A. Baker & Co. sale, 4 May 1943, lot 85.