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[ Morristown, New Jersey May, 1777. “Mr. Carter who I am told is a friend of the cause has been...
I received your favour per express, and as the absence of my former respectable correspondents...
By order of His Excellency, I am to acknowlege receipt of your favour of yesterday. The General...
His Excellency has received your favour of this Day. In answer to it he commands me to inform you...
His Excellency has examined your Provision report; and finds every part of it very well, except...
His Excellency desires you will not open or distribute the Cloathing stopped at your post, ’till...
By His Excellencys Command, I am to desire you will give orders upon the deputy Clothier General...
His Excellency has received your two last favours to day. In the first you hint the want of a...
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] June 13, 1777. “… Joshua Austin, belonging to the independent company...
Yours of the 25th came to hand last night. Since my last addressed to Mr. Morris, the enemy have...
I wrote you this moment by His Excellency’s order; but he is so anxious you should be acquainted...
I received your favour of the 4th, by express. If I recollect how far my last went, it did not...
Doctor McWorter has represented to His Excellency the case of a certain negro lately taken by a...
You will be pleased to forward the inclosed to General Putnam with all expedition, as it is of...
I received your favour and one from Mr. Morris last night by express. The stroke at Ticonderoga...
The intelligence, on which the order given you to join this army was founded, proving not to be...
Your favour of the 18th ⟨from Saratoga reached me⟩ yesterday. Your pronouncing Fort Edward among...
I have the pleasure of your favour of the 25th. I cannot be induced to think the enemy are so...
His Excellency commands me to acknowlege the receipt of yours of the 27th instant. The...
… have fallen into the enemy’s hands. This event redounds very little to our credit; for if the...
I last Evening had the pleasure of your favour of the 2d. I am with you exceeding anxious for the...
Camp Near German Town [ Pennsylvania ] August 7, 1777. Certifies that “Monsieur Bernard Pally De...
I most sincerely and heartily sympathise with you in the distresses and dangers under which your...
Your two favours both of the 22d came to hand yesterday. His Excellency had been all the day out...
Wilmington [ Delaware ] August 29, 1777. Sends extract from General Orders of June 18, 1777,...
By command of His Excellency, I am to request you will immediately send on Major Blackden & the...
Agreeable to the intention of the Council I have delivered their inclosed letter to His...
Inclosed in your letter to Mr Ludowick you will find one from His Excellency confirming your...
If Congress have not yet left Philadelphia, they ought to do it immediately without fail, for the...
I did myself the honor to write you a hasty line this Evening giving it as my opinion that the...
paid at Christiana for family’s breakfast, horses &c.— £6.5  paid on the road from thence to...
We have just received your favour of Yesterday, desiring from us a Testimony of your Conduct, so...
I left camp last evening and came to this city to superintend the collection of blankets and...
I am in Philadelphia on some business of great importance to the army; to execute which I stand...
by Virtue of powers from His Excellency General Washington I do hereby Authorise you to require...
In consequence of orders received from His Excellency General Washington, I desire you will press...
Son Excellence vous desire d’assembler toute la cavalerie le plutot possible prés de ses...
88General Orders, 3 October 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Worcester Township, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1777.] Describes order of march for attack on...
I am desired by His Excellency, to inform you that, on a second consideration, it has been...
His Excellency is persuaded by intelligence from different Quarters that the Enemy are determin’d...
Whitpain Township [ Pennsylvania ] October 29, 1777 . Hamilton recorded the minutes of this...
I lodged last night in the neighbourhood of New Windsor. This morning early, I met Col: Morgan...
By inquiry, I have learned that General Patterson’s brigade, which is the one you propose to send...
[ Albany, November 5–8, 1777 . On November 9, 1777, Hamilton wrote to Putnam : “I wrote to you...
I arrived here yesterday at Noon and waited upon General Gates immediately on the business of my...
I cannot forbear Confessing that I am astonishd. and Alarm’d beyond measure, to find that all his...
I arrived here last night from Albany. Having given General Gates a little time to recollect...
I have been detained here these two days by a fever and violent rheumatic pains throughout my...
Since my arrival in this quarter, I have been endeavouring to collect the best idea I could, of...
I arrived at this place last night and unfortunately find myself unable to proceed any further....