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...
2From George Washington to Ezekiel Cornell, 13 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday honored with yours, accompanied by the proposed form of several Resolves of Congress for the immediate promotion of a number of Brigadiers to the Rank of Majors General and of Colonels to that of Brigadiers—How far your plan would promote the public service give satisfaction to individuals, (a matter which ought ever to be attended to in some degree,) & not alarm the States I...