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The Commander in chief having taken into consideration the request of Major General Dearborn to have the 4. Regiment in the 2. Brigade, 8. Division, divided, and a new Regiment, to be called the fifth in said Brigade, to be formed, therefrom, and having had the advice of Council thereupon, orders, that the 4. Regiment continue and remain, to consist of the following towns and companies, viz.

Canaan 1 Company Norridgewock 1 [?] Cornville 1 [?] Starks 1 [?] Anson 1 [?] Barnardston 1 [?] Newportland 1 [?] Caratunk 1 [?]

                                     8 Companies

And that the following towns & plantations form a new Regiment, to be called the fifth Regiment in the 2. Brigade, viz. Farmington 2 Newsharon 1 Newvineyard 1 Plymouthgore 1 Readstown 1 Tyngstown 1 Wyman's plantation 1

               8 Companies