31From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 19 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Scarcity of Forage in this State, renders it absolutely necessary to remove the Cavalry of your Legion—as well as all the horses belonging to it, that are not indispensibly necessary for the Duty of Officers and the ordinary occasions of drawing fuel &ca. The Quarter Master recommends the Counties of Kent and Sussex as the best place for them to be quartered during the Winter—You will...
32To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 19 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
At the desire of Council I enclose your Excellency a state of Colonel Samuel Attlees claim upon which are founded his expectations to be recommended to Congress as a brigadier General of this state I also enclose your Excellency the resolutions of the Council of safety respecting the prisoners and the plan of arrangement from which you will have a very clear and explicit view of Colonel...
33From George Washington to Caesar Rodney, 19 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Quarter Master General has represented to me, that our resources in point of forage will not with the greatest œconomy and management satisfy the demands of the Army—unless the Cavalry of Pulaskis Legion is removed to some position where it will interfere less with the general Supply—The Counties of Kent and Sussex in your State, he thinks will be able to maintain this Corps, with less...
34From George Washington to Malachi Treat, 19 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I recd yours dated 14th but the month not mentioned inclosing an Hospital Return. I shall immediately upon my return to the Camp at Middle Brook direct that Cloathing be sent up to the Men in Hospital, and I must beg that care may be taken to have it delivered to them as it is wanted, which will be cheifly when they are about to leave you. I highly approve of your innoculating upon the first...
35General Orders, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
36To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
when the Counte pulaski was going to left this Country, i had ask’d of your Exellency the Command of his Corps, and if i had been granted with by your Exellency, not anny difficulty whatsoever would have taken place, but i believe that the Counte has no more the same project. i Could perhaps have from Congress the rank of brigadier if my rank of ancienté amongs my Country men here, and mine...
37From George Washington to Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favor of the 25th Ulto. I have heard nothing of Col. Wheelock but hope your fears on his account are groundless—I do not know what dispatches he might have been charged with from others—but he had none from me. I have given directions to the Commissary Genl of Purchases to have proper care taken of the Stores that have been collected upon the upper part of Connecticut River. I am...
38From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
That the Officers of the Army are in a very disagreeable situation—that the most unhappy consequences are to be apprehended, if they are not speedily placed in a better, and that therefore some provision more adequate than has yet been made is absolutely necessary—are truths so obvious and so generally acknowleged, that it would almost seem superfluous to say any thing to enforce them—But it...
39From George Washington to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The liberal Testimony of approbation which you did me the honor of transmitting by the hands of His Excellency the President, coming from so respectable an Assembly cannot but make the deepest impression on my mind. However conscious I am that your generous sensibility attributes infinitely too much to me—my respect for you leads me to acquiesce in your request and gratefully to subscribe...
40To George Washington from Richard Peters, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour of enclosing to your Excellency Copies of General St Clair’s Claim of Rank & of General Arnolds Letter in Consequence. Copies have also been interchangeably sent to the Parties. They are sent to your Excellency agreeably to the Usage in such Cases that you may take such Measures in the Matter as you shall deem expedient. I have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect your...
41From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will immediately countermand the Orders You have given to transport flour to Connecticut River above No. 4 and let no provisions of any kind be forwarded to that Neighbourhood. You will also direct your deputy in that Quarter to take care that the provision already collected above No. 4 be so disposed of, as to be no object for the Enemy and safe from Embezzlement. I am Sir Your Most...
42To George Washington from Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been long wishing for the pleasure of seeing you in Camp but Conclude from the Multiplicity of Buisness in which you are Engaged that it will be some time before we shall Experience that Satisfaction. Our City is completely finished. it’s Regularity is equal to any on the Continent—& it’s Internal police at least as regular as that of Phila. I can Assure your Excellency that we are much...
43General Orders, 21 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Deputy Clothier General is to issue a woolen cap to each effective man present belonging to the brigades in this camp on returns made by the commanding officers of brigades, countersigned by the Adjutant General. The men on detachment at Monmouth to be omited in the return as they will be drawn for separately. The Brigade Commissaries are regularly to turn in all the cattle’s horns and...
44From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 21 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have perused your letter of yesterday on the subject of recruiting your corps—In answer to it I must inform you, that when you and Count Pulaski declared your intention of quitting this Country—the consideration of the many inconveniences attending small independent Corps had determined me to recommend the incorporation of your troops and his. The evident utility of such an arrangement, in...
45To George Washington from Captain David Hopkins, 21 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Capt. David Hopkins, 21 Jan. 1779. GW wrote Hopkins on 1 Feb. : “I have received your memorial of the 21st of January.”
46From George Washington to John Jay, 21 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Rawlins who as well as his officers in general distinguished himself at the affair of Fort Washington has remaining of his Regiment about fifty or sixty men and a few officers. As the latter are at present an expence to the Continent without being employed—and the Colonel after having deserved well of his Country and suffered a grievous captivity, has some claim to attention—I beg...
47To George Washington from John Pierce, Jr., 21 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I would inform your Excellency that there is now in the Military Chest about 380,000 Dollars—which after the whole Army is paid for October, and the Money taken in of the two Emission’s which I see by resolve of Congress we are to Exchange, will not be sufficient for November—I imagine five or six hundred Thousand Dollars more will pay November & December and what exigences may arise in the...
48General Orders, 22 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
49To George Washington from John Jay, 22 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will receive herewith enclosed a Copy of an Act of Congress of the 21st Inst. I have the Honor to be with the greatest Respect & Esteem, Your Excellency’s most Obed. & Hb. Servt LB , DNA:PCC , item 14. Jay wrote similar letters on this date to major generals Horatio Gates, Benjamin Lincoln, and John Sullivan; paymaster general William Palfrey; deputy paymasters Ebenezer Hancock...
50Enclosure: Samuel Culper to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 22 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your No. 4 came to hand, And observed the Contents. Your approbation of my Intelligence is highly pleasing to me. I Shall use my best endevours to Serve you and think I am under good advantages to do it. I cannot give you any Incouragement about makeing any Incursion on L. Island with Small parties. I know not of any Officer So detached from his Corps that a Small Party might Surprise him, I...
51Remarks to Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 23–31 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the opinion of the Committee on the three plans submitted to them, some time ago, for the operations of the next Campaign, I have countermanded the orders which were given for the intended Expedition to Niagara but do not know upon what ground my Conduct will stand justified, as there are Resolves of Congress directing the necessary preparations for the enterprize and nothing...
52General Orders, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
53To George Washington from General Henry Clinton, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was honoured with your Letter of the 26th of last Month, with its enclosure. In order to prevent the irregularities, which, under the pretence of Reconnoitring, would otherwise be committed by individuals in every Army, it has been the custom in Europe (if I recollect right) that any Infantry patroling without a Non Commissioned Officer should be liable, if taken by the Enemy, to be treated...
54From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Cloathing the Army well is a matter of such essential and fundamental importance, that it ought not by any means to depend on contingencies, but some plan should if possible be concerted to produce regular and constant Supplies. Whether this can be best effected by governmental Contracts with the Court of France, or any other power disposed to assist us—or in the way of Commerce by a Committee...
55To George Washington from Colonel George Gibson, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Assembly of Virginia in their late Act passed for the reinlistment of their Troops have not taken any notice of the Two state regiments anex’d to the Continental Army. from what cause I Know not unless it may be that they conceived the regimts to have been Continental Troops from the time they were taken into the Service, Indeed His Excelly the Governor & many Gentn of the House of...
56To George Washington from John Jay, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving and communicating to Congress your Excellency’s Letter of the 21st Inst: respecting Coll Rawlins—Copies of two Acts of Congress of this day, One on that Subject, & the other refusing a Request of Major General Phillips to go to New York & ordering him to Virginia, are herewith enclosed. I have the Honor to be With the greatest Respect & Esteem Your...
57To George Washington from James McHenry, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to communicate to your Excellency (in addition to my information through Mr Tilghman of the 21st Instant) by Major General Lord Stirlings particular directions, that on the 17th a detachment of the enemy (of about two hundred men) from New York effected a landing on the Middletown shore (near one Thomas Browers)—But re-imbarked in the night, without penetrating the country, or...
58To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Lt. Col. William Washington, 23 Jan. 1779. GW wrote William Washington on 9 Feb. : “I have recd yours of the 23d and 30th ulto.”
59General Orders, 24 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Regimental Pay-Masters are immediately to make out returns of shoes actually wanted in their respective Regiments, which the Brigade Majors are to digest into Brigade returns regimentally, have them signed by the officers commanding Brigades and deliver them in to the Orderly-Office next tuesday forenoon. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The following Tuesday was 26 January.
60To George Washington from Major General Israel Putnam, 24 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am honor’d with your Commands of the 8th Inst. respecting the Cloathing purchased by Major Bigelow and the mode to be taken for supplying the Connecticut Troops, with a proportion of it. I know not to what your Excellency alludes, in General Parsons’s Letter, which in your opinion, contains some insinuations not of the most delicate nature: As I never saw it, or heard the contents, except in...