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by the Brigade Orders of the 6. instant, in the room of Major Lillebrown[?], who is sick.

H: Sewall, B. Gen.

General Orders, Head-quarters, Roxbury March 20. 1799.

The Commander in Chief having received a protest from Howard S. Robinson, & others, of the Company of Artillery in Hallowell, in the 8. Division, against the election of Samuel E. Dutton to be Captain of said Company -- orders, that a copy of said protest be transmitted to Major-General Dearborn, and that he report upon the subject of said election & protest, as soon as may be; and that he include therewith such representation from Brigadier-General Sewall as shall together enable the Commander in Chief to determine thereon according to law, & agreeably to military rules and discipline.

By order of the Commander in Chief Wm. Donnison, Adj. General.

General Orders, Head-quarters, Roxbury, March 30. 1799.

While the nations of the old world are destroying each other, & laying waste the fields of agriculture & industry, America is seeking only to preserve in peace, those advantages