1To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 3 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
It appears by representations made to us, that when the honorable the Secretary at War was in camp the last fall, and lately in this Cantonment, that he gave encouragement to those interested, that the Lieutenant Colonel Commandants of Regts in the line of Massachusetts should receive Colonels commissions & the eldest Majors be advanced to Lieutenant Colonels, so far as the vacancies admitted....