1From George Washington to Colonels Henry Sherburne, Samuel Blachley Webb, David Henley, Ezekiel Cornell, and Alexander … (Washington Papers)
Instructions—Recruiting Orders—and a Warrant for 6,000 Dollars to Recruit with, are now Inclosed to you—Copies of the Recruiting Orders are to be given to the Officers so soon as they are Nominated, & I should think if only part of the bounty was given to the men at the time of enlisting them & the residue when they Joined the Regt it might be a means of preventing Desertion. You are to fix...