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be excused, and if any such are found to exist, the Com-manding officers of Brigades will instantly pursue the proper measures against the delinquents for breach of orders, without favour or affection to any.

H. Sewall, D. A.Gen. General Orders, Head Quarters, Boston Feb. 3. 1792. The Commander in chief, having taken into consideration the application from Major General Lithgow of the eighth Division relative to a more perfect 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, one in No. 1, [?] and 5, one in No. 2, 9, 10 and 12, one in No. 22 west of Machias, one in No. 7, one in No. 5 and 12, and one in No. [?] and 13, being nine companies, compose one regiment; that the regiment now commanded by Colonel Parker be another regiment, to be composed of nine companies as follows, vis. two in Penobscot, one in Blue hill, 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 Colonel Brewer be another regiment, constituted as it now is in relation to