From George Washington to the Board of War, 24 June 1780
To the Board of War
Head Quarters near Morris[town] 24 June 1780
Gentlemen
Inclosed you have a list of new appointments and promotions in the Regiment of Artificers which will compleat the officers of that Corps1—Be pleased to make out and deliver the Commissions to Lieut. Yeates the Bearer who will forward them2—You have inclosed a Return of the Commissioned and Non Commd Officers and privates of that Regt agreeable to the Resolve of Congress of 15th March 1779.3 I have the honor &.
Df, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. This enclosure has not been identified.
2. Thomas Yeats (Yeates, Yates), of Pennsylvania, served as an aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam in 1777 before enlisting in the regiment of quartermaster artificers as a sergeant in May 1778. He became a lieutenant in the regiment in March 1780 and left the army in May 1781.
3. This enclosure has not been identified. For the congressional resolution of 15 March 1779 apportioning various military units to the states from which they had originally been raised, see , 13:316–18.