1To George Washington from John Paterson, 2 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Some time since Colonel Crane desired the officer who has the distribution of the accounts from Massachusetts, to send him all the men that might arrive, in order to compleat his regiment to the same number as those of the infantry, on the reform , which I conceived unreasonable, and directed that Colonel Crane should only receive his proportion of recruits, allowing for nine regiments; which...