1To George Washington from Udny Hay, 16 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
My Brother Charles Hay was, with some circumstances of extreme rigour, confined in Canada in a common Jail upwards of three years on suspicion of treasonable Practices; When Governour Haldeman was by the Secretary of State in England ordered either to release......of requesting your Excellency will be so good as add one from yourself and transmit it to Charles Hay at Mr John Thompsons Merchant...
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 11 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Hay is referring to Robinson’s Landing on the east side of the Hudson River a little more than two miles south of West Point.Hay is referring to Fredericksburg (now Patterson), New York.
3To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 23 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Hay had written Maj. Gen. William Heath from Fishkill, N.Y., on 18 Nov.: “I was honoured with yours of Yesterday, and am sorry to find the Department you command is generally in so distressed a... ...I meet with at present in procuring a quantity both of Flour and Forage, particularly the latter.” Hay subsequently explained his efforts to spur his assistants to “Uncommon Exertions before...
4To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 17 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Hay means Wappinger’s Creek in Dutchess County, New York.Hay apparently enclosed an appeal from New York governor George Clinton, also written at Poughkeepsie on this date: “From the Information I have of the Conduct and Circumstances of the bearer Mr Platt Titus & other Shipwrights I am...
5To George Washington from Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, 16 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...to make head against them, and not receiving any support from the Army stationed at Peeks Kill, I was oblidged to retire before the British Troops, who Immediately set fire to, and consumed my House, Barn, Stables, Hay, Grain, and Flax with a Number of Valuable Articles which were in the House.No reply to Hay’s letter has been found. In the summer of 1779, the British again raided Hay’s farm...
6To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 18 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
...; and the Connecticut Council of Safety, deeming it too expensive to run on its own, leased it to Whiting, who ran it until the end of the war. Richard Stewart, an assistant deputy quartermaster who served as Hay’s assistant 1778–80, became quartermaster at King’s Ferry, N.Y., in October 1779. For the letters exchanged between Hay and Whiting, see Hay to GW, 22 Nov., n.1
7To George Washington from Col. Ann Hawkes Hay, 2 June 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
: from Col. Ann Hawkes Hay, 2 June 1779. GW wrote Hay on 4 June: “Your favor of the 2d met me.” For what probably is another reference to this letter from Hay to GW, see the letter of 3 June from Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair to GW.
8To George Washington from Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, 19 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Ann Hawkes Hay (1745–1786), a colonel in the Orange County militia, was appointed by the provincial congress on 10 Aug. as “commissary for the militia raised and to be raised in this State to the northward of King’s...Hay to GW, 2 Aug.
9To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 9 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
. GW acknowledged this letter when he wrote to Hay on 13 July.Hay to GW, 28 June, n.4
10To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 6 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Hay refers to Fort Clinton, the main bastion of the defensive works at West Point. Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene changed the name of the fort, formerly known as Fort Arnold, shortly after the discovery of Maj. Gen....Hay alludes to the Pennsylvania line mutiny (see