From George Washington to Peter Scull, 25 May 1779
To Peter Scull
Head Quarters Middlebrook 25th May 1779.
Sir
I have duly received your favors of the 10th and 19th—with their several transmissions.1
Inclosed is a report of a board of officers on the relative rank of Capns Finney and McClelan with their commissions.2 You will be pleased to alter their respective dates agreeable to the report.
A number of resignations accompany this;3 you will return commissions for the officers that rise in succession. I am Sir &
G.W.
Df, in James McHenry’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. See the Board of War to GW, 10 May, and Scull to GW, 19 May.
2. The enclosed report has not been identified. McHenry had written to the Pennsylvania field officers from headquarters at Middlebrook on 9 May: “His Excellency desires you to take into consideration the dispute of rank between Capn Finney & Capn McLeland—with such othere claims of officers as may be connected or involved in their dispute—and to report on the same. I herewith transmit you all the papers respecting the matter” (DLC:GW).
3. The enclosed letters of resignation have not been identified.