158961New York Assembly. Report on the Petition of Margaret Livingston, 13 February 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, February 13, 1787. On this date Hamilton reported on behalf of a committee of which he was chairman on a petition from Margaret Livingston and others: “Proprietors in part of the Township of New-Stamford, in the County of Ulster, praying leave to present a bill for the partition of the said Township.” New York Assembly Journal Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York...
158962[Diary entry: 15 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. At home all day alone.
158963General Orders, 2 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
General Ward to send a Regiment to morrow morning, at ten OClock, out of Boston, to relieve Col: Learnards regiment upon Dorchester Heights—Col. Learnard’s Regiment to prepare to march on Thursday morning. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Col. Ebenezer Learned’s regiment was to march for New York as part of Gen. Joseph Spencer’s brigade on Thursday 4 April (see General Orders, 31 Mar. 1776 ). Gen....
15896419th. (Adams Papers)
Several of the gentlemen who accompanied the governor, yesterday to Haverhill, went on to Salem with him, and did not return till this evening. I was with Townsend. JQA ’s line-a-day entry for this day reads: “Stacey return’d. Rain. Walk with Putnam. Townsend” (D/JQA/13, Adams Papers, Microfilms , Reel No. 16).
158965To Benjamin Franklin from Philip Syng, 1 March 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yours of the 26th of September last, with your very agreeable Present Doctor Lewis’s new Work. You judged very right that I should find in it entertaining Particulars in my Way— the Management of Gold and Silver is treated of in it better and more particularly than I have met with in any Author. The regard you have always shewn me requires my...
158966General Orders, 1 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
The General directs the following rules to be invariably observed throughout the army; and as he is apprehensive they will meet with great obstacles, in the carelessness, and indolence of some officers; he thinks it necessary to declare, that he will not overlook any neglect, or breach of them, that shall come to his knowledge. Each regiment to be paraded at troop and at retreat beating—the...
158967[Diary entry: 5 April 1775] (Washington Papers)
5. Wind very fresh and Cold from the No. West all day.
158968[Diary entry: 2 March 1771] (Washington Papers)
2. The Doctr. & I set of for Winchester. Dined at Triplets and lodgd at Wests. GW had called a meeting of the officers of the Virginia Regiment at Winchester on 4 Mar. to report on the trip down the Ohio River that he had made the previous fall ( Va. Gaz. , P&D, 31 Jan., 7 Feb., and 14 Feb. 1771, and R, 31 Jan. 1771). triplets : the ordinary of James and William Carr Lane at Newgate (now...
158969Resolutions of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 23 November 1772 (Washington Papers)
We the Subscribers (being the only Commissioned Officers of the first Virginia Regiment who met at this place pursuant to the request of Colo. George Washington) Have taken into Consideration the State of our affairs respecting the Grant of Land under the Honble Govr Dinwiddies Proclamation (of the 19th of Feby 1754) and finding, that of the 200,000 acres there given, and directed by a...
158970[Diary entry: 26 February 1768] (Washington Papers)
26. Laid of a Road from Mt. Vernon to the Lain by Mr. Manleys.