1From George Washington to Captain John Paul Schott, 31 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
You have herewith your recruiting Instructions, & Warrant to draw Money to begin with —You have Liberty to Nominate your Subaltern Officers, in doing which you cannot be too particular as your own Reputation & the good of the Service in a great measure depend upon this Choice, should it happen that upon my seeing them I think them Incapable of filling the Posts to which they are nominat’d with...
2From George Washington to Capt. John Paul Schott, 29 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Capt. John Paul Schott, 29 Mar. 1777. Tench Tilghman docketed Schott’s letter to GW of 24 Mar. in part: “Ansd 29th with orders to march the Men inlisted immediately to Morris Town—sent him a Warrant for 300 Dollars.”