1To John Adams from Francis Dana, 25 February 1781 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter came to hand the last Evening; I was about breaking it open, agreable to your directions, but observing it marked Cadiz, and supposing it to be a mear private Letter, I desisted. If it shou’d contain any news from our Country, I doubt not you will advise me of it by the first opportunity. Mr. Bondfield, who has lately been at Paris, writes me from Bordeaux on the 20th....
2From Alexander Hamilton to Major Richard Platt, [25 February 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I have taken The General’s orders on the subject of your letter of the 24th. As Col Hay’s oxen appear to have been converted to the public use, justice requires they should be replaced to him, as it is not known certainly in what manner they were used and as it is not material to the public from what department the compensation comes, The General directs that The Quarter Master General will...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 25 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
Last night your favor of the 18 Inst: was delivered me. I confess that the contents surprized and afflicted me, not that I discover any impropriety in your conduct in the affair in question, for of that I persuade myself you are incapable, but as it may be attended with consequences prejudical to my country which I love, which I affectionately love, and as no event tending to its detriment can...
4George Washington to John Berrien, 25 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] February 25, 1781 . Directs Berrien to deliver to the bearer “all Articles in your hands procured for Hospital uses.” Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Berrien was hospital storekeeper at Danbury, Connecticut.
5George Washington to James and Horace Hooper, 25 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] February 25, 1781 . Orders delivery to director general of hospitals all articles procured for hospital uses. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. James and Horace Hooper were hospital storekeepers at Windsor, Connecticut.
6George Washington to Comte de Sainte-Mesme, 25 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Windsor, New York ] February 25, 1781 . Is pleased that Sainte-Mesme wishes to accompany the Marquis de Lafayette to Virginia. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Jean Baptiste Louis Philippe Felix d’Olieres, Comte de Sainte-Mesme. He was colonel of the Regiment Soissonnais, French army in America.
7General Orders, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . On this date, GW receipted for $6,000 received “of Lieutt Colfax for public uses” ( ADS , RNHi ). On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote Maj. Gen. William Heath: “Will you be kind enough to take opportunities of forwarding the inclosed. “Count Rochambeau, in a letter of the 20th, mentions that another Vessel has arrived at Newport from Cape Francois...
8To George Washington from Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will Receive this by Serjeant Temple of Majr Whitcombs Core who Desires me to write In thier Favour. I Can Say that the Soldiers of that Core are good Soldiers and have been very Servisable In the Common Cause and Since they have been here to us in Particular, and if it is Consistant with Your Excelencys Pleasure Could wish (and it is also the Desire of the Principle men in this Quarter)...
9To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Letters of the 29th of December & 10th Jany Last. that of the 10th came to hand on the 20th instant, and the other on the day following. As it is my Duty, so it is my highest pleasure, to execute every instruction I receive from your Excellency, to the utmost of my capacity. Captain Heth having retired to his farm I cannot at this time, send his rank, but have inclosed...
10To George Washington from Captain Destouches, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
La division de Lescadre du roi que j’avois expediée pour La baye de Chezapeak vient de rentrer aprés avoir causé un assez grand dommage aux ennemis, et Leur avoir enlevé Le vaisseau Le Romulus de 44 canons; mais elle n’a pu executer L’objet principal de sa mission parce que Les fregates de lescorte dArnold et La plus grande partie de ses transports ont remonté, comme L’avoit prevu votre...
11To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you on the sixteenth a letter on the business I was sent on but supposing you were gone from Camp I did not send it on till now, which will make my appology for the Delay —Cornwallis is advancing fast into our Country. a letter from Gen. Green tells us he was retiring before him not being strong enough to fight him tho’ he is only about 2500 Strong; Green has passed the Stanton where I...
12From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen or the Officer Commanding His Regiment, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to direct a discreet Subaltern of your Regt with a proper party to proceed to Danbury and execute the within order—You will fill up the Blank with the name of the Officer. I am &. Df , in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The order, addressed “To [ ] of Colo. Hazens Regt,” reads: “You will proceed with the party under your command to Danbury,...
13To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Letter of the 17th Instant with its Enclosures were received last Evening; and I have now the Honor of forwarding the enclosed Despatches from Genl Greene & Copy of a Letter from Governor Jefferson, which contain the latest Intelligence from the Southward. The Intelligence is interesting & Situation of Affairs critical. It is however to be hoped that the Spirit of the...
14From George Washington to Major General Lafayette, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favors of the 23d from pompton by Capt. Castaign —You may make yourself perfectly easy as to ships of the line being at New York—the Iris and the others mentioned by Hagarty are Frigates—This Man relates a circumstance to me that he does not seem to have informed you of—it is—that a reinforcement of six hundred Men is preparing for Arnold—and that the Convoy is to be the...
15To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
inclosed I Have the Honor to Send An intelligence that is just Now Come to Hand —Whatever May Be the Object of this Expedition, it Will Be Highly important for duke of Lauzun’s Legion to Hear of it As Soon As possible—Lauzun May Be at Rhode island—His Lieutenant Colonel is Also a Very Good officer. Mons. de Murnan Will Be the Bearer of this And Ride day and Night—Having No Men And Believing...
16To George Washington from New Hampshire Rangers, c.25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of the subscribers Humbly sheweth: That your Excellencies memorialists have at different past periods, voluntarrily inlisted themselves as Soldiers into the Independant Companies of Rangers raised for the particular defence of the Northern frontiers and hitherto commanded by Major Benjamin Whitcomb. That your memorialists in general being Inhabitants of aforsaid frontier, was the...
17To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Letters found on board the Vessels taken by Mr De Tilly, have decided Mr Destouches to follow at full the plan given by your Excellency, and to risk every thing to hinder Arnold from establishing himself at Portsmouth in Virginia. Your Excellency has been apprised by my yesternight’s Letter, that our ships could not go into Elizabeth river, there not being water enough for the 64. man of...
18To George Washington from Philip Schuyler, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favor of the 20th Instant evinces another instance of that friendship And attention which whilst I feel it flattering to me, affords me a satisfaction, which a heart impressed with affection and esteem can only truly experience but of which a description would be equally improper as impossible. The accession of Maryland to the confederation, and the cession of Virginia of its...
19To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William Stephens Smith, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Marquis set off this morning for Philidelphia since his departure I have received from below the enclosed letters which I have the Honour of transmitting to your Excellency, haveing first taken Copys & forwarded to the Marquis, we shall march early in the morning and arrive at trenton the 28th instant. I have the Honour to be Your Excellency’s Most devoted Servt ALS , DLC:GW . Smith wrote...
20Circular to Brigadier General Jacobus Swartwout and the Colonels of the Orange County and Ulster County, N.Y., Militia … (Washington Papers)
When his Excelly Governor Clinton left Poughkeepsie to meet the Assembly of this State at Albany, he was pleased to desire me, in case there should be any sudden call for the Militia, to apply in my own name to the Commanding Officers thereof in the vicinity of this Post. I do not know that occasion will require me to use this authority, but as a considble detachment has Marched from the Army...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bell, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at Last made a Return of What I Procured under the Provision Law. I Recd your Instructions for procuring Grass beef and Salt two Late. At that time the ware all Sold other wise put up to feed and Could not be taken under that Denomination. If there is not more Severe Laws made against Ingrossers this part of the Country will not be able to Suply with any Beef. There has been many Droves...
22From Christopher Calvert, with a Note by Jefferson to the Attorney General, 25 February–21 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
South Quay, 25 Feb. 1781 . “Agreeable to the within information,” Calvert has seized the trunk and has found no letters in it, but rather a quantity of “valuable dry Goods”; wishes to know what is to be done with them. By law the Naval Office is open from ten to three; this prevents Calvert from attending muster; and, on account of his feet, he believes himself entitled to exemption from...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Claiborne, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 25 Feb. 1781 . Writes “respecting the duty of Feild Quarter Master within this State.” Has observed for a long time that there “is very little regularity or system in that Line … nor is there a principal in Commission to call the Subordinate officers to account for their Receipts and Issues. … While Troops are kept in such small and scatered Bodies, as they must be from the situation...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Gamble, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Chesterfield, 25 Feb. 1781 , “ half past 4. oClock P.M. ” Baron Steuben being on the point of setting out, he has ordered Gamble to send “the enclosed return of Militia under Genl. Muhlenberg, specifying the Counties they are from. It has this moment come to hand—he has been exceedingly disturbed and uneasy that he had it not sooner in his power to comply with your requisition.” Enclosed also...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s Despatches of the 8th and 17th Instant. The Success of the Militia against the Cherokees it is to be hoped may be attended with happy Consequences. Your Letter of the 17. which was received last evening shall be laid before Congress at their next Meeting. Their Determination respecting Colonel Campbell’s Proposition to build a Fort shall be forwarded...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Lawson, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the Instructions received from General Green I have order’d out the Militia of P. Edward, Cumberland, Amelia, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Buckingham and Amherst. We must depend upon the best arms they can provide and which your Excellency must know is not the most certain dependence; however I have the pleasure to inform you that a number of the Guns are very...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Lawson, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received information from Colo. Bannister that there were 400 stand of good Continental Arms at Petersburg of which he desired 150. I wrote to Baron Steuben on that, and shall immediately write to him again to let him know your want, and I have no doubt but he will order on the balance for your Militia; besides these, 600 stand passed by this place three days ago for Genl. Greenes...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Steuben, 25 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Lawson writes me word that he can march 1000 men to-day or to-morrow to reinforce Genl. Greene if he can be aided with arms. I inclosed you yesterday a letter from Colo. Banister informing me there were 400 good Continental arms at Petersburg, of which he seemed to wish about 150. The state stock being already exhausted, I could only inform Genl. Lawson that I would take the liberty of...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Steuben, 25 February [1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[Colo. Meade has return’d from examining into the Affair of the Flag. He has brought the inclosed papers which I send for your inspection. I do not find sufficient Reasons to Detain Mr. Hare any longer and have therefore sent orders to have him discharged.] I have the pleasure to inform your Excellency, that the Detachment has marched from this consisting of 400 Rank and file. They are well...