271To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I had Just closed my Letter No. 1 when I received the Inclosed from General Sullivan which was Left open for my perusal I am extreamly Happy that it contains such Favorable Accounts and do myself the pleasure to Congratulate your Excellency—I am still in Hopes if reinforcements are soon sent we shall hold Canada, Especially as the Canadians are so friendly—I am however humbly of Opinion That...
272To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 17 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Last Evening I received a Letter from Mr Petry, Chairman of a Committee, in Tryon County inclosing a Letter from Sir John Johnson and others, to the Inhabitants of Tryon County, and one from two Militia Officers taken prisoners by the Enemy in the Action with General Herkimer; Copies whereof I do myself the Honor to inclose. These were taken from Butler, together with a verbatim Copy of...
273To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Letter with the Resolve of Congress it inclosed have been laid before a Board of Commissioners of Indian Affairs convened for that purpose —The Result of their Deliberations will appear from a Copy of the Minutes of their proceedings which I do myself the Honor to inclose together with Copies of the papers referred to —I have the Honor to be &c. LB , NN : Schuyler Papers. See...
274To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 4–5 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was last Evening honored with Your Excellency’s Favor of the 27th Ult: Covering the Letter & Resolutions of Congress and the Letter for Doctor Stringer which I have delivered. Altho’ I make not the least Doubt, but that General Carlton is constantly and very well informed of the Condition we are in at Tyonderoga, by the many disaffected Persons that reside in the Vicinity of that Fortress,...
275To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your Excellency’s request I do myself the honor to Communicate my Ideas on the mode of most Effectually Forwarding an Immediate supply of flour and wheat from this State for the subsistance of an Army In that of the Massachusetts or Rhode Island: Flour and wheat (for I apprehend a sufficient quantity of the former cannot be speedily procured) for that purpose I concieve should be...
276To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencys Favor of the 28th November I received on the 11th instant, the Inventory of the Military Stores taken from the Enemy, gave great Joy in this Place. With mine of the 8th instant, Your Excellency will receive an Account of our Strength in Canada, It is daily decreasing, above an hundred have left It since General Montgomery’s Letter. I fear much that by the first of next Month,...
277To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Favor of the 9th Instant which was delivered me last Night. Colo: Pellesier’s plan, which your Excellency mentions to have transmitted to me is not yet come to Hand—I saw it before it went down, but cannot say that it meets my Approbation —It appears to me that Nothing more is necessary on Mount Independence than a Fort that may be defended by four or five hundred Men to...
278To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 21 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I was last Evening honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 15th Instant. I have sent to Canada half of the Money transmitted me by Colonel Gilman; thirty thousand Dollars of the other half is gone to Connecticut, where we still owe about seventy thousand, the Remainder is nearly expended in paying Debts long since accrued, and the Calls for daily Expences is very considerable. I hope...
279To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
On the Intelligence received by Congress that nine of the Enemies Ships of War had got into Deleware Bay, and that a Number of Transports were seen in the offing, the Continental Troops in this City amounting to 563 Rank and File were ordered to Fort Island to assist in compleating the Fortifications there, which are in a very defenceless State, and to throw up a Work on Red Bank to prevent...
280To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 7 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
I had prepared an Answer to your last, which I Received three days ago, but as It was not Copied; and having this Moment received the agreable Intelligence of the reduction of St John’s, I would not withold from your Excellency so Interesting an Account, for a letter which I may hereafter send, I only Inclose Copy’s of General Montgommery’s Letter and of the papers that were Inclosed in It. Mr...
281To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
The pleasure I felt on Learning your Success At Trentown Occassioned Feelings which are Better Conceived than discribed, I very Sincerely congratulate you on that Event and the Succeding ones, may Heaven Continue To Crown you with a Succession of Laurels, and make you the happy Instrument of preserving Liberty to this much Injured Country. About one Thousand men from the Massachusetts engaged...
282To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 26 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the Honor to address You in a long Letter of the 20th which I hope will come safe to Hand. The Day before yesterday I was favored with a Letter from General Montgomery, Copy of which inclosd In the Contents of which, & on the Report of the Indian Deputies I do myself the Pleasure to congratulate Your Excellency. I have made some Explanatory Notes on General Montgomery’s Letter...
283To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 12–13 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am just returned from Crown point, to which place I accompanied General Gates—On our Way to that place we stop’d at Tyconderoga and left Colonel Trumbull to take a View of the Grounds opposite to it and on the East Side of Lake Champlain—In the Evening of the 5th we arrived at Crown point and on the 6th Colonel Trumbull arrived, who made so favorable a Report of the Ground, he had been to...
284To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Greaton, who has the Leave of Congress to go into New York, provided your Excellency approves, was to have been accompanied by a Colonel Muellevain —I am just now informed that she has taken James Fisher of this City with her, a notorious Tory, and capable of giving more Intelligence to the Enemy than any Man in it —I have informed Mr Hancock of this and he has advised me to communicate it...
285To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 10th & 11th Instant; I am very confident the Manner in which you have treated the Cayuga Sachems, will be attended with very salutary Consequences. By a Person from your Camp, who left it since the Ships of War passed your Cheveaux de Frize, we were informed that all the Craft that could be procured, were employed in carrying Stone to compleat...
286To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 28 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 26th I was honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 22d Instant. When I did myself the Honor to write you last I beleived that you might have been informed of the Resolutions of Congress of the 11th Ultimo directing an Expedition to be prosecuted against the Senecas—As you was not advised of it when your Letter was written I take the Liberty to inclose you Copy of the Resolution. But...
287Army Agreement Certified by Alexander Hamilton, 30 April 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany ] April 30, 1782. Certifies a contract made by Philip Schuyler, on behalf of the United States, and William Duer, contractor for the posts “north of Poughkeepsie in the State of NewYork,” for supplying the Army with meat. Copy, RG 93, Miscellaneous Records, National Archives.