On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington appointed Edmund Randolph and George Baylor as Aids-de-Camp and David Henly, John Trumbull, Richard Carey, Thomas Chase, Alexander Scammell and Daniel Box as Brigade Majors for the six brigades besieging Boston. The rank of Brigade Major would be abolished a a couple of years later but Alexander Scammell would continue in service in the Continental Army as a Colonel until he was killed in the siege of Yorktown in 1781. Daniel Box was a deserter from the British Army who had been recruited by Nathaniel Greene to help train Rhode Island troops.

Source: “General Orders, 15 August 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0209. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 309–311.]

And on that day in Boston, Captain Benjamin Walker died in a British prison of the wounds he had received at Bunker Hill. We should remember his sacrifice for American liberty today.

Source: https://www.abbottgenealogy.com/single-post/2019/08/16/Died-Capt-Walker-a-prisoner-taken-at-Bunker-Hill; https://www.google.com/books/edition/Peter_Edes_Pioneer_Printer_in_Maine_a_Bi/lvU-AAAAYAAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=false