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Those captains & subalterns in the 1. & 5. regiments of the 1. brigade, whose commissions do not agree with the number of the regiment to which by the late arrangement they now belong, will, in conformity to the Gen. Orders of the 9. Feb. last, please to bring or send their commissions to the Major General that they may be certified & recognized according to the intention of the said orders. Those of the 5. regiment will have an opportunity of sending their commissions by Major Gannett at the time of the election of their field officers; & those of the 1. regiment may have their commissions certified at Wiscasset during the session of the District Court at that place, the first week in September next.

The militia of the Division will be assembled the present year within the months of September & October next, for inspection, military instruction & discipline either by plantations, towns, battalions, or regiments as in the judgement of the commanding officers of regiments will best conduce to the general good of the militia, but not independently of the superintending government of the Brigadier General who will please to give seasonable & appropriate directions in the premises, embracing the cavalry & artillery within their respective commands.

                                                        H: Sewall M. Gen.
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   Commonwealth of Massachusetts. General Orders, Headquarters, May 10. 1803.
   

The general courtmartial ordered to be holden at Cambridge on Wednesday the twentieth day of April last past, for the trial of lieutenant colonel Jeduthun Willington on the complaint of lieutenant colonel Jonathan Coolidge, then & there convened, & was organized as follows, viz. Major general John Cutler, of the 4. division, president.