1To George Washington from Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 26 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excelency may remember, that when I had the honour to wait on you at White Plains 1778, Your Excelency desired me not only to give you intelligence from this quarter and Canada, &c.; but also to give my opinion in matters relating to the publick cause. And though I am sensible my capasity is very small, and my Judgment weak, yet possibly I may, in writing a sheet, say something that will...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Humphrey Brooke, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Without place [ Fauquier County ], 26 Feb. 1781 . Received the recruiting law on 15 Jan. and divided the militia in preparation for the draft to be made on 5 Mch. Is apprehensive that sufficient funds will not be available for this purpose. Received TJ’s orders for embodying one fourth of the militia of the county on 23 Feb.; this may interfere with the draft, but if a man is drafted who is on...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Burwell, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to an act entitled an act for the better regulation and discipline of the Militia passed May 1779 a Court martial has been lately held in this County for the trial of such of the Militia as did not turn out when ordered, by which ten or twelve of them are turn’d over as regular Soldiers. I find by the above mentioned act that they are to serve as regular Soldiers in Troops of this...
4To Thomas Jefferson from W. R. W. Curle, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Williamsburg, 26 Feb. 1781 . Received at the end of January TJ’s letter of the 19th enclosing “the Law for recruiting our Army”; went at once to Hampton to execute it, but at a meeting of the field officers, magistrates, &c., it was the unanimous opinion that, “as no Assessment in Specie had been made in the County, (oweing to the frequent Invasions, the great Distresses Confusion and...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Dick, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Your Excellencys Letter with appointment for Direction of the Gun Factory and shall do all in my power to increase its Success. You were desirous of having an Account of the Work done and deliver’d, especially I believe, what might be a Continental Charge; I have herewith inclosed in one point of View the whole, which I hope will be Agreeable and am with the greatest Respect Your...
6To George Washington from Catherine Littlefield Greene, 26 February 1781 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Catharine Littlefield Greene, 26 Feb. 1781. On 22 March, GW wrote Greene: “I have also been hond with your favor of the 26th of Feby” ( DLC:GW ).
7To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 26 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the 26th of last Month, I had the Honor to receive Your Excellency’s Obliging Favor of the 9th, which I should have done myself the pleasure of acknowledging before, but was waiting for an opportunity to send it to Alexandria for the post. The mutiny in the Pennsylvania line, though I have heard that it has been accomodated, gives me great concern, both from the danger of the precedent, and...
8To Benjamin Franklin from A. Benoist Huquier, 26 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je viens de recevoir deux petites caisses Emballés que Mr. Grand de Paris ma fait parvenir, avec avis de les garder et d’en suivre vos ordres. Je vous prie, en me les faisant passer, d’observer, qu’il est indispensable de me faire passer une Declaration de ce que ces deux Caisse renferment, et Eviter qu’elles ne soient arrestée dans quelque Doüane dans leur...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Claiborne, [26? February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
The matter referred to us in your letter of the 25th. Inst. we conceive to be improper for us to meddle in, I mean as to the necessity, and duties of a Field Quarter Master. The expences of defence in cases of actual invasion being altogether Continental, I mentioned early in the present invasion to Baron Steuben the propriety of directing every expenditure to be through the hands of...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 26 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I gave you information in my last letter that Genl. Greene had cross’d the Dan at Boid’s ferry, and that Ld. Cornwallis had arrived at the opposite shore. Large reinforcements of militia having embodied both in the front and rear of the enemy, he is retreating with as much rapidity as he advanced. His route is towards Hilsborough. Genl. Greene crossed the Dan, the 21st. in pursuit of him. I...