1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkinson, 24 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have this Moment arrived here, on my Way to Congress, with dispatches from Major General Gates; and being Uncertain whether your Excellency is apprized of the Fact; I think it my duty to congratulate you, on Lt Genl Burgoynes Surrender to the American Arms—This fortunate Event took place on the 17th Inst., & put us in possession of Six General officers, five thousand Combitants, five...
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkinson, 28 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to receive the grateful Homage of a sensible Mind, for your condescension in exposing to me M[ajo]r Genl Gates’s Letters which Unmask his Artifice & efforts to ruin me. The Authenticity of the Information recd thro Lord Stirling I cannot confirm; As I solemnly assure Your Excellency I do not remember the Conversation which passed on that occasion, nor can I recollect particular...
3To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 12 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from James Wilkinson, 12 Sept. 1779. On 13 Sept., GW wrote Wilkinson: “I have received Your Letter of the 12th.”
4From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 13 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Letter of the 12th with a transcript of the Resolution of the 24th of July appointing you to the Office of Cloathier General, which had been previously announced to me, by His Excellency the president of Congress. As the duties of the Department are generally delineated in the Ordinance of 23d of March last, established by Congress —with whom & the Honorable the Board of...
5To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 15 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from James Wilkinson, 15 Sept. 1779. On 16 Sept., GW wrote Wilkinson: “I have received Your Letter of the 15th inclosing Copies of the correspondence between you and Mr Measom—on the Two preceding days.”
6From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 16 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Letter of the 15th inclosing Copies of the correspondence between you and Mr Measom—on the Two preceding days. I am much surprised to find, that Mr Measom, after the late arrangement of the Cloathing department and your appointment by Congress, to the Office of Cloathier General should so far refuse obedience to their authority, as to suppose the direction and...
7From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 5 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I request that you will use every practicable exertion to have All the Coats—Waistcoats—Breeches—Blankets Woollen Overalls—Shirts—Shoes—Stockings—Hats—Caps—Watchcoats & Woollen Mitts—belonging to the Continent, brought on to Newburg without a moment’s delay. The exigency of our Affairs demands it. I am Sir Your Most Obt st P.S. You may leave Cloathing at the Eastward for about Twelve Hundred...
8To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 5 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from James Wilkinson, 5 Oct. 1779. On 8 Oct., GW wrote Wilkinson: “I have received Your Letter of the 5th.”
9From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 8 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Letter of the 5th and should have answered it before, if a variety of important and pressing business had not occurred to prevent it. With respect to the subordinate appointments, which you mention to have made and still propose—I have no authority to direct them nor have I to confirm them. From your Letter of the 12th of last month, the business appears to have been...
10From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 18 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
By a letter from Colo. Brodhead of the 16 Sept. I find that the troops at Fort Pitt were then much distressed for Cloathing and before a supply can possibly reach them they must be much more so: To releive them as soon as possible, be pleased to send up a quantity agreeable to the inclosed Return which is the last I have recd from the Westward. It is possible that Colo. Brodhead may have made...
11From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 2 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am informed that Very little of the uniform clothing has as yet got to the place of distribution. The advanced season of the year makes it absolutely necessary to employ such further measures as you may judge effectual to facilitate its arrival. There are at present a number of matters which claim your personal attention at camp. Besides the general distribution which should take place as...
12To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 9 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was last Evening honored with your Letter of the 2nd Inst: & shall pay every practicable attention to the Mandate therein contained; in the mean time the justice I owe my Character obliges me to assure your Excellency, that no Moment of my time since my Arrival in this place has been otherwise employed than in direct pursuit of the Interests of the Army & of the Public; and I am confident I...
13From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 27 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
After the several orders which have been drawn upon you are complied with, you will please to make return of every article in your Store at Newburg, and on the first day of every month, afterwards of all the clothing of every kind in your different Stores with a general account of your issues and receipts during the preceeding Month. You will also be pleased to render me as soon as may be, a...
14From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Col. Greene & Col. Angel wait on you respecting the Cloahg for their Regts—I wish you to accommodate the matter with them in the best manner you can—From their peculiar situation it may be impossible to transact the business agreeable to your instructions so as to let it pass immediately thro the hands of the State Clothr but this may be finally done should there be a necessity for giving...
15From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 6 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Army having taken its position for the Winter in the Vicinity of this place you will repair hithe[r] as expeditiously as possible to take charge of and issue the Cloathing which has been stopped here—The four Massachusetts Brigades at West point and the New Hampshire Brigade at Danbury, having recd their proportion of the Cloathing at Newberg you are to apply to the Quarter Master for the...
16From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 19 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
From the wretched & miserable condition of many of the Troops for want of their Cloathes, Many of them being absolutely naked, I must urge again in the most earnest terms, that you will use every possible & Instant exertion to have the Cloathing as formerly directed, brought forward that it may be delivered. The public service as well as the dictates of humanity require that it should be done...
17From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 1 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
You have been informed that the distribution of Cloathing made at West point was proportioned to our stock then upon hand and that it was short of the quantity to which the troops of the different States and Corps were intitled. A considerable number of the troops of the State of Massachusetts having since that time reinlisted for the War, will be intitled to the continental Bounty Cloathing,...
18To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 9 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
The frequent Applications which I receive, from the General officers & other Individuals of the Army, for Articles of Clothing for their Servants & Waiters, occasions me great perplexity & Uneasiness, and obliges me to request your Excellency, either to Authorize my compliance therewith, or to inform the Army that my Duty obliges me to reject them, for from the mistaken Idea of my possessing...
19From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 10 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Letter of Yesterday. It appears to me at present, that General and Other Officers who find their own servants, ought to receive annually Cloathing for them to the amount of the Annual Cloathing allowed by the public to the Soldiers—and that the General & Field Officers might draw it on their own Order. The public would save by this, as otherwise they might be compelled to...
20From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 20 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
The approach of Spring makes me anxious to know whether any or what provision has been made of thin cloathing—The first delivery of woolen Breeches and Overalls was very short of the requisite number, and when the second, which I beleive will be the whole on hand, is made, there will still be a deficiency, except the states should have made larger purchases than we have any reason to...
21To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 1 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of your Letter of the 20th ultimo, it reached me on the 28th; your Excellencys condescension in the advice & assistance which you therein offer me excites my warmest gratitude, and I beg leave to return my sincere acknowledgements for the same. My reluctance to intrude on that Time which I consider too interesting & important to my Country, to be trespassed upon on common...
22To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 12 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you Returns, of the Clothing on Hand in the Magazine in Philadelphia the 1st Inst: & of the Issues made to that Day since my last Return. The Assistant Clothier general having lately made Returns of the state of the Eastern Magazines makes it unnecessary for me to say any thing respecting them at present: I have therefore only to add that I expect the Shoes & light...
23From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 27 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favr of the 24th. If I remember right most or all of the Cloathing coming from Phila. is of the kind which the Army will immediately want, it may therefore come on in the first instance to Morris Town and from thence according to Circumstances—It will be well to order about one thousand pair of shoes immediately to the Army, as I observe many of the Men are in want. Be pleased...
24To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 3 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Excellencys Letter of the 27th Ultmo Yesterday, and I doubt not you will be as much surprized to hear from me, as I am distressed in being obliged to Answer your Excellency from this place; but I trust you will pardon my abrupt departure from Camp when I assure you that Measure was compeled by a Most extraordinary demand of the Treasury Board, which reached my...
25To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 11 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
I had this Moment the honor to receive your Letter of the 5th Inst., and should instantly obey your Excellencys Commands was I possessed of means necessary for the Purpose; I shall go to Philadelphia Tomorrow Morning & as soon as my private credit or the public funds can furnish me the small sum necessary to defray my traveling expences, shall set off for your Quarters: In the mean time I must...
26To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 17 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since my Letter of the 11th Inst: I have had an Interview with the Board of War—and obtained the inclosed State of their Purchases; I am sorry that the subsequent Correspondence (of which a Copy is inclosed) should damp the expectations raised by my first Information: I have every reason to conclude that the Woollens alluded to in the Letter of the 16th Inst: comprehend the whole of the...
27To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 7 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose your Excellency an exact report of the Clothing in my Possession & in the Hands of the Agent Clothiers, to whom I have wrote intreating their exertions to push forward the several Articles in their Hands to New Burgh, & I have directed them to represent the exeigency to their respective executive Powers & require the Transport necessary for the occasion —Genl Heath...
28From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 24 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have so repeatedly, but without effect, called upon you to attend the Business of your Department, near Head Quarters, that I have been under the disagreable necessity of representing the matter to Congress. It is with them therefore to determine whether your general place of residence shall be at Philadelphia or with the Army. I am Sir Your Most Obedient Servant A true Copy James Wilkinson...
29To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 30 December 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Wilkinson, 30 Dec. 1787. GW wrote Wilkinson on 20 Feb. 1788 : “I have received your letter of the 30th of December.”
30From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 20 February 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th of December, written at George-Town. I am very sorry that your business was so pressing as to deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you at this place, while you was in the neighbourhood of it. Doctor Stuart handed me the Indian fabricks which you did me the honor to send by him, and for which I beg you to accept of my warmest thanks. Altho’ they are not...
31To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 1 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Conceiving that the novelty of the thing may render it acceptable; I have presumed to offer to you, by the Hands of Capt. Prior, two Kegs of Salted Fish, which were taken in the Big Miami River. And, with the most dutiful attachment to your Person, & the highest veneration for your exalted Station I have the Honor to be Your obliged & faithful Soldier & Servant ALS , NIC . The docket reads:...
32From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 14 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
( private ) Sir, Phila. March 14th 1793 I had the pleasure to receive your polite letter of the 1st of Novr by the hands of Capt. Prior—and shortly after the two Kegs of fish therein mentioned came safe to hand. They were truly a novelty here—and if the Western Waters abound with such fine fish as these appear to be, it may be considered as no small addition to the many favours which nature...
33From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 2 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have received the letter which you addressed to me, accompanied by a new map of the present theatre of War North West of the Ohio, which I consider as the best description extant of the Country to which it relates. The value of the object is greatly enhanced in my estimation by its being the production of the Officer second in the command of the American legion. This desire of being useful...
34To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 1 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
J: Wilkinson takes the Liberty to send the President, a rough draft & concise description of his 1000 Acre tract of Land on the Ohio a few Miles above the little Miami, as reported to Him by the Surveyor. AL , DLC:GW . The enclosed document contains a hand-drawn map of GW’s tract near the Ohio and Little Miami rivers, accompanied by the following text: “The presidents 1000 Acre tract of Land...
35To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 26 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
Should this Letter be presented to you, it will be from the Hands of the Miamis Chief the Little Turtle, who in ballancing between a visit to the Town of Boston, or Mount Vernon, has decided in favor of your Seat. I think Sir, you will find Ideas more correct, and a mind more capacious in this Chief, than any of his race. It was He who conducted the action of the 4th November against Genl St...