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source: ORDERLY BOOK.
[Gen. Sullivan's Expedition.]
June 19th, 1779, to July 30th, 1779.
Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Vol. XIV, pages 23-65
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Donna Bluemink.
dbluemink@cox.net Forwarded to me by Chris Alexander, marbles@sbcglobal.net
Head Quarters, Wyoming, July 24th, 1779.
The party of the German Battalion tried by a special court martial of which Brigadier Gen. Poor is president for mutiny and desertion were found guilty of the charge and sentenced as follows, viz:
Joseph Alexander, Frederick Kerls, Jacob Bottomer, Philip Cook and Georg Ottenberger to be shot to death. Frederick Mosser, Frederick Sipperil, Corporals, to be reduced to the ranks and run the gauntlet through Gen. Maxwell's, Gen. Hand's Brigade and Col. Proctor's Regiment. All the rest to run the gauntlet as above. The Commander-in-Chief approves the sentences and orders them executed on Monday next at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Head Quarters, Wyoming, July 26th, 1779. (Monday)
After Orders.
On account of the unsettled situation of the weather the execution of the several sentences of the court martial upon the criminals of the German Regiment is postponed until tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock.
F. BARBER, A. Gen.
Head Quarters, Wyoming, July 27th, 1779. (Tuesday)
The Commander-in-Chief having received a petition from the prisoner of the German Battalion now under sentence manifesting their consciousness of the crimes of which they have been condemned and promising in case of pardon to distinguish themselves in future as brave and obedient soldiers which petition being laid before a Board of General Officers.
The Commander-in-Chief absolutely declares he will not in future pardon a deserter or one who though his time be expired shall quit his corps without a proper discharge from his commanding officer.
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