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Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 Nov. 1775. On 15 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your Favours of the 28th Ulto and 2d Instt.”
Your Excellys Favour of the 19th Inst. requesting 250 Waggons from this State was duly received & Orders have issued accordingly. I fear the Collection of them considering the great Demand by Mr Cornay & other Causes will be more tedious than the Exigency of our Affairs will well admit. The Number of Waggons in this State is most amazingly diminished—the County of Lancaster which formerly...
I was honoured with yours of the 29th May ⅌ Express & take the first Oppy to express my sincere & grateful Acknowledgments of the Favour intended me by appointing me to the Command of the Horse. The Difficulties which have arisen in Congress, the Time, Manner & Circumstances under which the Appointment as General Officer has been made so as to enable me to profit by your Favour, added to the...
Permit me to mingle my sincere Congratulations with the general Applause on the late glorious Success of the Army under your Excellencys immediate Command. I trust you will not suspect me of Flattery when I assure you that I think the Wisdom of the Plan, the Secrecy of the Movements & Gallantry in Execution will hand Down the whole to Posterity as equal to those celebrated Enterprizes which...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20 Jan. 1776. On 31 Jan. GW wrote to Reed : “I have now to thank you for your favours of the 15th 16th & 20th Instt.”
I am desired by the Supreme Executive Council, to transmit to your Excellency, the inclosed Memorial from the Officers of Colonel Proctors Artillery. They importunately press for an answer, but the Council have declined it, untill they could be favoured with your advice and opinion. The Officers have this day intimated that if not redressed they propose to resign we can not approve the...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 Jan. 1776. On 10 Feb. GW wrote to Reed : “Your obliging favours of the 28th Ulto & 1st Instt are now before me.”
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 7 Dec. 1778. On 12 Dec., GW wrote Reed : “Your favor of the 7th Instt by Mr Laurens came to my hands a day or two ago.”
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 21 Jan. 1776. In a letter of 1 Feb. to Reed, GW referred to “your favour of the 21st.”
The Council of this state, have been favoured with your Excellencys letter of the seventeenth Instant proposing to regulate the Intercourse between the inhabitants of these states, and the enemy at New York, so as that flag boats may pass at stated periods only. In answer to which, I have now the honor to acquaint your Excellency that this Board entirely approve thereof, and as soon as the...
I should not trouble you with the inclosed Paper if I did not know that you can look down with Contempt on these feeble Efforts of Malevolence & Resentment, and that I am introduced into it to bear false Witness. I have addressed a Peice to the Printer wherein I have made such Remarks & taken such Notice of this Attempt as I thought a Respect to my own Character required. I have also the...
We apprized you a few Hours ago that the River was rising fast & scarcely fordable the heavy Rains since have swelled it so much that it is now impassable—& from the best Accounts & Opinions it will be 24 Hours before it will be fordable for Footmen. In the former Letter I mentioned by desire of Genl Armstrong who came up to this Place this Morning that Monsr Portal has been up & will lay out...
Letter not found : from Joseph Reed, 14 Oct. 1779. On 22 Oct., GW wrote Reed: “Three days ago I received your obliging favor of the 14th” ( RPJCB ).
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 17 Jan. 1777. On 19 Jan. GW wrote Reed that “your Letters of the 16 & 17th Inst. are both before me.”
I have received your favour of the sixteenth Instant directing the March of the City Light Horse, for which the necessary orders will be given and they will proceed with all possible dispatch Upon the new plan of our Militia there are Light Horse attached to the troops of every County The short time since the plan has been adopted has not permitted a thorough execution, but if your Excellency...
I have not been favoured with any Thing from you since my too last but that never makes any Difference in my Writing as your Claims of Friendship & Gratitude upon me are superior to all other. The Congress have made an Appointment of Generals as by the inclosed Paper. Armstrong is ordered to South Carolina—Thompson to New York the others keep their present Situation. Genl Lee’s Destination is...
I have this Evening received your Favour of the 26th—The Appellation which Col. Proctor has given his Regiment is by no means a proper one. By an Act of Congress which has lately been recognized by an Act of Assembly & Council he is put upon the Line of the State for the Purposes of receiving those Benefits & Comforts which have been voted to the Troops of this State, but no farther. So that...
Our reluctance to take any step which may add to the many cares and embarrassments that necessarily attend your Excellencys station will we hope apologize for giving you this Trouble. The Officers and Men enlisted from the state of Pennsylvania into Colonel Hazens regiment have applied to this Board to partake of the Bounty of the state in Cloathing shoes and other things which have been...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 16 Nov. 1775. On 27 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your Letter of the 16th by Post now lyes before me.”
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 18 April 1776. In a letter to Reed of 23 April , GW refers to “your Letter of the 18th.”
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 18 Nov. 1777. In a letter written to GW at “½ past 9 oClock” p.m. on this date, Reed refers to an earlier letter that he had written to GW “this Afternoon.”
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 12 June 1777. In his letter to Reed of 23 June , GW says that “Your favors of the 12th and 18th Instt are both before me.”
You will before this reaches you be informed that the Enemy quitted their Post last Evening. of Consequence the Attempt failed. the best Account I can get of it, is that Genl Howe with his principal officers came over yesterday reconnoitred the Ground which they were busily fortifying—they immediately ceased working began to embark & continued it till Sunset when the last went over. They then...
After the Services, Sufferings & Anxieties of the Winter 1776 I little expected that Persons would be selected as the Season of my greatest Reprsent that I should stand publickly charged with not only meditating but actually expressing Intentions of deserting to the Enemy: Yet, Sir, so it is not mere News Paper Abuse or transient Report but actually countenanced & supported by a Person of some...
Since I had the Honour of writing to you from Philada I have seen Mr Cox & made the Proposal to him mentioned in your last Favour —I took no Notice of Rank as if he did not wish for the Office of Commissary it would not be worth while to touch that String. He expressd many Thanks for your polite Attention to him but declined the Office as being unconnectd with any Corps & out of all Line of...
Your Favour of the 20th Instant came to Hand this Afternoon & it gives me great Pleasure to find I have anticipated your Excellys Desires in almost every pa[r]ticular. I have encamp’d the Troops on the Banks of the Delaware, & drawn a very considerable Part of my Supplies from Bucks County, so as not to interfere with the Quota of the County to be furnished for the Army. Tho Col. Stewart did...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 17 Nov. 1775. On 28 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your favours of the 15th & 17th are come to hand.”
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 2 Dec. 1775. On 15 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your Favours of the 28th Ulto and 2d Instt.”
Having but a few Moments Notice of this Express I can only acknowledge the Receipt of your Excellys last Favour, & acquaint you that I will take the first Oppy of consulting Mr Cox on the Appointment of Commissary of Prisoners. As Col. Biddle the Deputy Qr Master & Col. Flower the Commissary of Stores have the Rank of Colonel who have moved in much lower Spheres in Life than Col. Cox I have no...
General Green will give you so perfect an Idea of what he has seen here as to make any Remark unnecessary from any one else. I hope & beleive it is not yet too late to give the Forts some effectual Releif but every Moment is precious in The present advanced Season & after the Injury so heavy a Cannonade must have done them. As I know you are pleased with having the Sentiments of every Person...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 30 Dec. 1775. In a letter of 14 Jan. 1776 to Reed , GW acknowledged “the receipt of your favour of the 30th Ulto.”
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 8 Dec. 1775. On 25 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “your favours of the 7th, & 11th as also the 8th are come to hand.”
I have now the Pleasure of informing you that a Vessel long expected from France & Holland arrived a few Days ago with 25 Tons of Powder—300 Stand of excellent Arms & 1500 Weight of Salt Petre. We are hourly in Expectation of farther Arrivals, but we must now soon expect some Ships of War in our River which I fear will cut off all farther Enterprizes of the like Nature. I have been in Doubt...
Your kind & truly obliging Favour of the 28th Ult. came safely to Hand, & the oftner I peruse it the more fully sensible I am of the Justice & Importance of its Contents. I do not know by what Means the expected Assistance from France has been procured, but it will certainly give a Complexion to the Alliance in future accordi[n]g to the Reception it meets with here. I should be very...
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 4 April 1778. In his diary entry for 4 April 1778, Christopher Marshall wrote: “About eight o’clock waited upon Gen. Read at Wm. Atlee’s. He there wrote a polite letter to Gen. Washington on my application, in order to procure a pass for daughter Patience to go to Philadelphia, to secure sundries belonging to my three sons” ( Duane, Marshall’s Diary William...
I received your Favour of the 27th April this Afternoon, & the Council having adjourned to Monday, when it will be laid before them, & an official Answer given; I could not rest satisfied without immediately in a private Way, endeavoring to remove some of those Impressions which seem to have been made from a Misconception of our last, different from what I am confident was intended. It would...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 1 Feb. 1776. On 10 Feb. GW wrote to Reed : “Your obliging favours of the 28th Ulto & 1st Instt are now before me.”
I have the honour of your Excellencys favour of the twenty eighth Ult: and forwarded the inclosures to Major Parr. We are sorry to learn by the accounts transmitted by the recruiting Officers that they do not meet with the success they expected. I was apprehensive the bounty was too small, but General St Clair and Major Parr deemed it sufficient, their opinion had its due weight, expecially as...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 18 Feb. 1776. In a letter of 26 Feb.—9 Mar. to Reed , GW wrote: “Your favour of the 18th Ulto came to my hands by Post, last Night.”
Your Favour of the 16th Instt advising us of the melanch[o]ly State of the Army came to Hand on Sunday Evening, & was early the next Morning laid before the Council. Soon after a Committee of Congress laid before us a Letter on the same Occasion & to the same Import. We did not consider it wise or prudent to spend Time in unavailing Complaints of Misman[a]gement or Neglect but to endeavour to...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 7 Nov. 1775. On 20 Nov. 1775 GW wrote to Reed : “Your Letters of the 4th from New York—7th and—from Philadelphia. . . are all before me.”
This Morning your Express arrived with an Account of the interesting Events which have taken Place since this Month began. I beg leave to congratulate you on Appearances so favourable to the Interests of our Country & your own Character. Not that in my Opinion it was the least clouded by your Inactivity as the Causes were well known, but it is certain that Enterprize & Success give a...
By some Accident Mr Peters omitted sending me your Favour of the Instt so that I did not receive it till several Days after he returnd. I cannot sufficiently acknowledge the kind Sentiments it breathes, nor express the Satisfaction it has given me. If I had been capable of the Disingenuity which might seem to appear I should certainly have guarded it: but as my Letter to which that was an...
Your Excellencys favours of the fifteenth—Instant and of the twenty second (Circular) have both been duly received, and in answer to the former we are happy to find our explanations have been so satisfactory and agreeable. The distressing complaints from the frontiers will we trust greatly apologise to your Excellency for the anxiety shewn in our letters. But we hope these calamities will soon...
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20–21 Nov. 1775. On 30 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “your favr of the 20th with the agreeable Post[s]cript of the 21st, is come to hand.”
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 15 Jan. 1776. On 31 Jan. GW wrote to Reed : “I have now to thank you for your favours of the 15th 16th & 20th Instt.”
I shall make no Apology for troubling you with the following Hints because I well know that the Goodness & I may truly add the greatness of your Mind would induce you to listen with Patience & even Chearfulness to the Suggestions of the meanest Soldier if properly presented. Whether Philadelphia is the present Object of Attack is yet a Question & every one reasons upon it as his Fears Hopes &...
Letter not found: from Joseph Reed, 16 Jan. 1777. On 19 Jan. GW wrote Reed : “Your Letters of the 16 & 17th Inst. are both before me.”
Letter not found : from Joseph Reed, 3 Oct. 1780 . GW wrote Reed on 18 Oct. : “By your favor of the third” (see also GW to Reed, 19 Oct. ).
The Gentlemen of the Light Horse who went into the Jersey have returnd safe—they proceeded into the Country till they met an intelligent Person directly from Trenton who informd them that Gen. Howe was there with the main Body of his Army—that the Flying Army consisting of the light Infantry & Grenadiers under Ld Cornwallis still lay at Penny Town & there was no Appearance of a Movement—that...