1To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 15 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
It is of the Utmost Importance to inform your Excelly that the treatment our Prisoners meet with at New York is Cruelty in the Extreme; 11,000 of them, we are told by Persons of Veracity, have Died there for the Want of Fuel and Provisions—whilst their Soldiers who have fell into our hands have been treated with the utmost Care & lenity, and when they have been Exchangd have been instantly fit...
2To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 16 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Council received your Letter of the 12th Instant and are determined to give the Commissary every Assistance in their Power to secure a sufficient Quantity of Flour for the use of the Army, as we join your Excellency in Opinion, that any Scarcity of that Article at present in Pennsylvania must be artificial. The Westmoreland Battalion consisting of 620 is on its way the first Division is...
3To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 23 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favours of the 19th and 20th Instant are come to hand. It no doubt is Matter of great Concern that the Militia are returning home, more especially when your Excellency has been so very successfull with them, and has in a great Measure taught them their duty to fight and to Conquer. The Council have succeeded beyond their expectation in bringing out the Militia, and would...
4To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 29 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
This will be delivered to your Excellency by Colonel Emas McCoy of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment. The Rank of Officers in this Regiment is not yet settled, and from their present temper we apprehend much discontent will arise from any determination by this Council, and thereby the public Service be greatly injured, which possibly may not be the case if settled at Head-Quarters and by your...
5To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 31 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Col. Geo. Geiger of Northampton County an honest old German marches directly from Northampton to Head Quarters His Battalion is pretty large and from the known integrity of the Colonel, it is hoped he will be of much service to your Excellency. Inclosed is a return of the Arms &c. which the Colonel is in need of, and which the Council are unable to furnish him with and therefore have referr’d...
6To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 8 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
In October last the Council of Safety, with the view of promoting the public Service, and for the general security of these States resolved to form the broken remains of the three Provincial Regiments, lately Colonel Miles and Attlees’ into one, and to have it recruited to the full complement of 1000 Men. The necessity of continuing the few remaining Men in the field has hitherto prevented...
7To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 10 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Application has been made to us by James Smith Esqr. of Westmoreland, a Gentleman well acquainted with the Indian Customs, and their manners of carrying on war, for leave to raise a Battalion of marksmen expert in the use of Rifles, acquainted with the Indian method of fighting, to be dressed intirely in their fashion, for the purpose of annoying and harrassing the Enemy in their marches and...
8To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 5 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 5 Mar. 1777. GW writes to the council of safety on 7 Mar. that “I am honoured with yours of the 5th.”
9To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 6 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
Lieutenant Colonel Boehm of Colonel Geiger’s Batallion of Militia of Northampton Coty now in Camp, informs me that they are uneasy under an apprehension that it is intended to keep them in service more than the allotted time for the Militia, on account of some of the said Batallion deserting from this City when they were under marching Orders —at the particular request of Lieutenant Colonel...