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General Orders Head Quarters Boston Feby 3 1793

The Commander in Chief having taken into consideration the application from Major General Lithgow of the Eighth Division relative to a more prefect Arrangement of the Second Brigade of that Division, and having had the advice of Council - He thereupon Orders that the two Companies in Machias, one in No. 8 east of Machias, on in No. 1, 4 &5, one in No. 2, 9, 10 & 12, one in No. 22 west of Machias one in No. 4, one in No. 5 & 12, and one in No. 6 & 13, being Nine Companies, compose one Regiment - that the Regiment now commanded by Col. Parker be another Regiment, to be composed of Nine Companies as follows Viz, two in Penobscot, one in Bluehill, one in Sedgwick, one in Vinalhaven, two in Deer Isle, one in No. 1 on Penobscot River, and one in No. 2 on Said River- that the Regiment now commanded by Col. Brewer be another Regiment, constituted as it now is in relation to its Companies - And that one other Regiment be formed as follows, Viz. one company in Goldsboro, two in Mount Desert, two in Sullivan, one in Trenton, one in No. 8, and one in No.6 on west side of Union River, being eight companies. And in order to settle the various claims, and [?] differences about the Rank of the Several Regiments in said Brigade, upon equitable and just principles, in a manner conformable to military rules, from which no man of honor can recede, the