1George 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.
2George 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.
3George 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.
4General 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...
5From 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,...
6From 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...
7Circular 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...