151John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The Post was later than usual to day, so that I had not yours of July 24 till this Evening. You have made me very happy, by the particular and favourable Account you give me of all the Family. But I dont understand how there are so many who have no Eruptions, and no..., 31 July 1809 (
152From John Adams to Daniel Hitchcock, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
, 7 July, James Reed, John Nixon, and William Prescott had been named on 1 Jan. 1776 colonels of the 2d, 4th, and 7th Continental Infantry regiments, respectively. Prescott, of course, was a hero at Bunker Hill. Reed and Nixon were named brigadier generals on 9 Aug. (
153Elbridge Gerry to Samuel and John Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
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154Mary Palmer to John Adams, 4 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
I had the honour of your Letter of the 5th July above a fortnight ago, and should much sooner have acknowledged the favor had not an absolute want of Paper prevented, having none but blank Commissions in the House which we used for little Billets, but wou’d not...
155From John Adams to Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of the 14 of July is before me. I am happy to find your Sentiments concerning the Rewards of the Army, and the Promotion of Officers So nearly agreable to mine. I wish the general sense here was more nearly agreable to them....
156To Benjamin Franklin from Charles-Guillaume-Frederic Dumas, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Arthur Lee to Dumas, July 6, 1776, Jared Sparks, ed., Dumas again refers in abbreviated form to a passage that he intended to include, this time from a letter to the abbé Desnoyers of July 28–29 in the same letterbook. “Il m’a avoue,” the passage reads, “qu’il étoit l’un des plus actifs dans ce parti, assistant à leurs conférences, les connoissant tous par noms et personnes,...
157To Benjamin Franklin from Ray Greene, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
on July 3, 1776, Caty had asked his advice on whether to bring Ray, then eleven, home for vacation. The parents had done so, but had themselves left for Philadelphia so that William Greene might collect $120,000...
158To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 54). The transports in the convoy carried mostly Highlanders of the 42d and 71st regiments but included some Hessians (see Marriot Arbuthnot to Lord George Germain, 8 July 1776, in
159To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
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Tench Tilghman docketed this letter: “From B. Genl Greene Augt 4. 1776.” That date was a Sunday....the following May, and in October 1777 he was captured at the Battle of Germantown. Exchanged in June 1778, Skinner became a deputy commissary of prisoners at Goshen, N.Y., by July 1779, and on 15 Sept. 1780 Congress appointed him commissary general of prisoners, a position that he held for...
160To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour of your Letter of the 29th of July. I am much surprised to hear that the Carbines are not all yet arrived at New york, I forwarded them all agreeable to Your directions, and the last two hundred went from this place the fourth of July for Norwich to the care of Mr Huntington, to whom I wrote every time I sent Arms, or other Articles which were ordered to New york, to forward...