1To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Bell, 28 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Messrs. Schwieghauser & Dobrée of Nantes having already acquainted your Excellency the circumstances of my being a Prisoner on parole in this Country, & the Exchange they have proposed to the Commissaire of prisoners at Limerick, of the person of Capt. John Kinnere, taken by the schooner Sommerset Capt. Jones— I withhold troubling your Excellency with a...
2To Benjamin Franklin from John Shaffer, 27 September 1781 [i.e., 28 September 1781] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I recved your favour of yesterday and am very much in dsposed at Present you menchen in your letter that you would go to the Notary but as I have allready Geving it to Dotun for Securety it would be of No us as I only put it in to the hand of the Notary to Convince Dotun that it was my Intenshion to Deal Honourably with him it is Not menchened in the...
3[Diary entry: 28 September 1781] (Washington Papers)
28th. Having debarked all the Troops and their Baggage—Marched and Encamped them in Front of the City and having with some difficulty obtained horses & Waggons sufficient to move our field Artillery—Intrenching Tools & such other articles as were indispensably necessary—we commenced our March for the Investiture of the Enemy at York. The American Continental, and French Troops formed one...
4General Orders, 28 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
Officers for the day Tomorrow Major General Marquis de la Fayette Colonel Scammell Lt Col. Vandyke B. M. Bleeker The whole Army, Officers and soldiers will lay on their Arms this Night. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
5From George Washington to Board of War, 28 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosed Letter from Doctr Craick of the Hospital, is of so much Importance, that I cannot omit to transmit it to your Board—& to enforce it with my Warmest Desire that its Request may be complied with in the shortest Time possible—The Exhausted Condition of this State admits no Relief—our only Hope is from you—the Importance of the Soldiers life to our Service, is too well known to you,...
6From George Washington to Nathanael Greene, 28 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am very sorry to observe in your Letter of the 6th Augst a Complaint, that you have heard nothing from me since the 1st June—many Letters have been written to you since that Time—some of very particular Importance—This failure gives me Reason to fear some foul Play on the Route. The last I wrote to you was from Philadelphia, of the 4th of this instant Month—informg that the Plan of our...
7To George Washington from James Lovell, 28 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
With Views of public Utility I again take the Freedom of covering to you some papers for Majr General Greene and am your Excellency’s Obliged humble Servant PHi : Etting Collection.
8From George Washington to John Elliott, 28 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
Amt With Note 3020 1 1/2 Yd Gause 150 3170 30 galls. Ram Charge but not recd 1000 2170 Lb. Tobo to Pay or Cause to be Paid to Elliott & Co. on or before the Twenty fifth Decemr Next at the Petersburg
9From John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 28 September 1781 (Jay Papers)
My last to you was of the 24 th . Ult.— Triplicates have been sent I have rec d . none from you later than 10 July by Maj r . Franks— Yours of the 2 d . Jan y . & 4 March never reached me— there is Reason to believe that the minister prime minister here has them — Tell me what you think of my Letter, to