Head Quarters White Plain Camp
31st Oct[obe]r 1776.
The
Commander in Chief has been pleased to make the following Promotions [:]
17th Regiment Light Dragoons
Cornet
William Lotus [is] to be Lieutenant by Purchase, vice Bunbury who retires [.]
10th May 1776.
Mr.
Samuel Watts Gentleman [is] to be Cornet by Purchase, vice Loftus preferred [.]
di[tto]
British Orderly Books: Sir William Howe, Commander in Chief
September
26, 1776 - June 2, 1777
[Captain
Henry Knight, Aide-de-Camp to General Howe]
[New
York Historical Society Collection, Mss. page 74.]