Col. Varnum's Regt. is to take fort Box & the Oblong redoubt for their alarm posts, fort Box 6 cos., oblong redoubt 2 cos. Cap. Woolverton's Independent Co. to join those in the redoubt, & to receive orders from Col. Varnum. Col. Hitchcock's Regt. to take fort Putnam & the fort or redoubt on the left of it for their alarm posts. Col. Little's Regt. to take fort Greene for their alarm post. In case of an attack all these posts are to be defended to the last extremity. The lines to be manned every morning between day & sunrise & the troops to be exercised at parapet firing. CAMP LONG ISLAND June 18, 1776. The picket to be discontinued till further orders, except guard at Red Hook. 300 men with their officers to parade at 8 O'clock tomorrow morning to receive orders from Engineer Smith. GENERAL ORDERS. HEAD QUARTERS June 19, 1776. (Parole, LONDON.) (Countersign, MONTGOMERY.) A working party of 900 men properly officered to parade tomorrow morning near the artillery park.... Brig. Gen. Greene & Col. Prescott will furnish 150 men each as a working party on Governor's Island. On the present emergency all working parties to work till 6 o'clock P.M. Those who go by water will leave work sooner if wind & tide make it necessary. GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. June 20, 1776. Field officer, Lt. Col. Cornell, Adjt. from Col. Little's Regt. Col. Hitchcock's & Col. Little's regts. to furnish the fatigue party to Governor's Island tomorrow. The remainder furnished by those regts. to be upon the "Abatee" between fort Putnam & the redoubt on the left of it, & the Cap. from fort Putnam to the half moon. Lt. Col. Johnson's 5 Cos. of the 4th battalion of Pennsylvania Regt. (Wayne's) to furnish the fatigue party for Cobble Hill. Col. Varnum's Regt. to be employed on his alarm post. The Gen. disapproves of the report for the establishment of the rank of the 12th regt. & directs the same court to sit again day after tomorrow to examine the rank of the Caps. & to report how the court conceives they ought to rank, & how it may be most equitably established. REGIMENTAL ORDERS. June 21, 1776. For guard Lt. Burnham, for Red Hook tomorrow night Lt. Collins. GEN. GREENE'S ORDERS. June 21, 1776. Lt. Huse is requested to oversee the well-digging in fort Greene. 110 men for Governor's Island & 40 for Red Hook. Those that are to go on the Island to be at St. George's Ferry by 8 o'clock. The others to march to Red Hook as soon as they have had their breakfasts. June 28, 1776. Picket guard to mount from the 9, 11, 12, Regts. The 9 & 11 Regts to lie in their alarm posts--the 12th to lie in the oblong redoubt. GENERAL ORDERS. HEAD QUARTERS, June 29. ... The Commissary Gen. to lodge a fortnights provision on Governor's Island, Powles Hook & in all ye detached posts, Gen. Putnam furnishing him a list of the men.