1From George Washington to Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 25 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
I shall approve of your purchasing the Forty Whale Boats mentioned
2To George Washington from Brigadier General John Neilson, 3 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
P.S. Besides the Boats mentioned to your Excellency in my last
3To George Washington from the Board of War, 13 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The boats mentioned are about 70, or 80 in number, & will
4To Thomas Jefferson from Nathanael Greene, 14 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
flat boats mentioned by General WashingtonFlat boats mentioned by General Washington
5To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 18 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
...10). Heath responded to Pickering from West Point on 17 Dec. that he had ordered a detachment “to parade tomorrow morning for the purpose of dismounting launching and bringing up the Boats mentioned in your Letter, I think it will be necessary for Some person from your department to view and fix upon a proper place at Murderers Creek for laying up the Boats, Some additional Guard Boats and...
6From George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge, 4 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Capture of the Boats mentioned by you, trading to & bringing Goods from L. Island, is very clear; and their Condemnations, as well as of all others taken in like Situation, must be just.
7From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Lee, 4 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that the Boat mentioned in your letter of the 11th of April last
8To James Madison from George Davis, 2 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
Gun Boats mentioned in my letter to Commodore Campbell of the 20th. November.
9From Thomas Truxtun to Timothy Pickering, 27 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
..., I have confined myself to their employment in shoal and smooth water, and by no means at sea against frigates or men of war in that open element unsheltered by little islands or banks, &c. The boats mentioned by the major in his paper of last Saturday, which has induced me to write this letter, it appears came out of Vigo to intercept the convoy stated, and were of course in deep water—a...
10To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 21 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
...settlements via those channels. On 24 Apr. 1815 Russell addressed a letter to William Harris Crawford, the incoming secretary of war (ibid., R-106:8; 3 pp.), stating that one of the boats mentioned in his earlier letter had fought off an attack by Indians in “considerable force”; and that the British at that location said they “were not able to controwl the saviges,” still held U.S....