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.]