1From George Washington to Charles Carter, August 1754 (Washington Papers)
...runs about 2 miles along the Potomac River from Elk’s Run to the mouth of the Shenandoah River...
2Cash Accounts, June 1766 (Washington Papers)
By Expences in seeing an Elk
3Memorandum Books, 1768 (Jefferson Papers)
...acres on the ridges and head branches of Elk creek and 260 acres on the ridges between Diuguid...
4Memorandum Books, 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
v. George Campbell. 96. on Elk creek a bra. of Jas. river..... 190. on Elk creek a bra. of Jas...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 10 October 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...on the Delaware to Perch creek a branch of Elk river is about 12 miles; the ground has...
6Memorandum Books, 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
...Callaway and Ambrose Bryant on a branch of Elk creek. Patd. by George Walton and convd...
7Memorandum Books, 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
...food for them in proper places. Procure a buck elk, to be as it were Monarch of the wood...
8Memorandum Books, 1772 (Jefferson Papers)
Tables at Elk isld.Pd. Queen at Elk island 1/3.
9Memorandum Books, 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
Elk-islanddeduct Elk isld.
10XII. Thomas Jefferson to Farell & Jones, 9 July 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
Skelton’s estate a third part of Elk island. This third has been for sometime past letten...
11Notice of Sale of Wayles Properties, 15 July 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
River, opposite to Elk Island; and one Thousand four Hundred and eighty Acres...
12Further Notice of Sale of Wayles Properties, 9 September 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
River, opposite to Elk Island.
13Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Sam. Williams proposes to tend in Elk island and at Elk hillElk island is 693. strides wide at...
14Memorandum Books, 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
...time we have been absent) we have used at Elk hill 2. doz. bottles Madeira, 3 bottles......Elk...
15[May 1775] (Washington Papers)
...continued on to Charlestown, and from there to Head of Elk and Wilmington, Del....(Head of Elk...
16[Diary entry: 4 May 1775] (Washington Papers)
...continued on to Charlestown, and from there to Head of Elk and Wilmington, Del.
17[Diary entry: 8 May 1775] (Washington Papers)
..., when the courthouse was moved to Elkton (Head of Elk).
18To Benjamin Franklin from Israel Gilpin, 29 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
...has no Coal by him that was sent him from Elk by his brother
19Memorandum Books, 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
Credit Anderson Bryan for a horse at Elk hill as valued by Holman & Stegar £12....head of Elk 27...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 3 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
We return’d last sunday from Elk-Hill whare we had been for a week on a...
21To George Washington from the Executive Committee of the Continental Congress, 28 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
...them a Supply of Money at the Head of Elk and the necessary Cloathing to be got in readiness...
22Pay Book of the State Company of Artillery, [1777] (Hamilton Papers)
Russia leather, deer, bear and elk skins
23Memorandum Books, 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave Phill to buy chickens for us at Elk-hill 20/.
24To George Washington from Carpenter Wharton, 29 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
..., Christiana Bridge, Wilmington & the Head of Elk. I shall be extreemly happy in receiving...
25To George Washington from Major General Stirling, 24 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
...owned a number of flour mills on the Elk River and supplied saltpeter and muskets to... ...Elk...
26From George Washington to John Hancock, 31 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
...that the Troops were to proceed to the Head of Elk, taking Annapolis & Baltimore in their way.
27To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 22 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...whole army the 25th near the Head of Elk. Yesterday they marched from their first position...
28To George Washington from John Hancock, 24 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...I have just Rec’d a Letter from Head of Elk Copy of which I inclose also, & to which......Elk...
29From George Washington to Major General John Armstrong, Sr., 25 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...this Morning about Six Miles below Head of Elk opposite to Cæcil Court House. The informant...Elk
30From George Washington to Colonel George Baylor, 25 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Fleet are laying in Elk River, and by an Express received this Evening, the...
31To George Washington from Samuel Chase, 25 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Joseph Gilpin (1725–1790) was a Head of Elk sawmill owner, and Patrick Ewing (1737–1819)...
32From George Washington to John Hancock, 25 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of public and private Stores at the Head of Elk, which I am afraid will fall into the Enemy...Elk
33John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
Howe’s army landed on the 25th at Head of Elk (modern Elkton, Md.), as far up as... ...Elk...
34To George Washington from Major General Philemon Dickinson, 26 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...journal that when Howe’s troops began landing at Elk Ferry on 25 Aug., “the rebels consisting...
35To George Washington from Colonel Theodorick Bland, 27 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Elks [Md.]
36From George Washington to John Hancock, 27 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I this morning returned from the Head of Elk, which I left last night. ...only eminences about Elk...
37To George Washington from Colonel John Dockery Thompson, 27 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...—Yesterday a party of Hessians landed on this Side Elk River, & made 4 of our men prisoners,...
38General Orders, 28 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Howe’s army as it advanced from the Head of Elk (see
39From George Washington to Brigadier General John Cadwalader, 28 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...about Two miles this side the Head of Elk, and from the information of Deserters and prisoners...
40From George Washington to Colonel John Dockery Thompson, 28 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...New Castle, from whence the distance to the Head of Elk is but short. If they cou’d cross Elk...
41From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Horatio Gates, 29 August 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
...army the 25th instant near the head of Elk. Yesterday they marched from their first position...
42From George Washington to John Hancock, 29 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Gray’s hill about two miles on this side of Elk, whether with intent to take post there, or to...
43General Orders, 30 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Fitzgerald paid 15 shillings on this date “near Elk for the Light Horse” and 9 shillings “...
44From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 30 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the war, was appointed first major of the Elk Battalion of the Cecil County militia by the...
45From George Washington to Brigadier General William Maxwell, 30 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
.... Howe’s army did not march from Head of Elk until 3 September. Howe’s aide Muenchhausen says...
46From John Adams to William Gordon, 31 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
In Maryland, on the Elk River at the head of Chesapeake Bay, now Elkton.
47Instructions to Colonel Mordecai Gist, 31 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...march them immediately towards the Head of Elk within a convenient distance to harrass and...
48Intelligence Report from Captain David Hopkins, 31 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...sent this corps to the east side of the Elk River to protect the right flank of his main...
49From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, 1 September 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
...whole army within about four miles from the head of Elk; a day or two, after his landing, he...
50From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 1 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
...was, and I believe the Main Body about Elk. There has been some skirmishing between our...