151To George Washington from William Livingston, 10 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 3d Instant, I received this Day, and am greatly obliged to you for the Intelligence it contains. We are exceedingly anxtious in this solitary Retirement to hear from head Quarters as often as possible: And any Accounts of the spirited behaviour of our Troops, affect us with unspeakable Pleasure—What Pity it is that any of our Officers should be so unacquainted with themselves...
152To George Washington from William Livingston, 27 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 27 Oct. 1779 . Brig. Gen. William Woodford wrote Major General Stirling from Pompton, N.J., on 28 Oct.: “An honest Country man about twelve o’clock to Day picked up a letter in the Road near this place from Gove[rnor] Livingston to his Excellency which must have been dropped by a careless Express … the Letter was dated yesterday” (see GW to Stirling,...
153To George Washington from William Livingston, 2 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have your Excellency’s favour of the 22d instant and am very happy to find that the State of New Jersey possesses so great a share of your Esteem, which I hope it will never forfeit by any remissness in such Exertions as it is capable of making. I am convinc’d the State is not behind hand with you in mutual regard; and as for the personal friendship of your humble Servant, if it is worth...
154To George Washington from William Livingston, 26 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was honoured with your Excellencys official Letter of the [ ] instant & your personle Letter of the 21 which accompanied it—last Evening when the Assembly was on the point of Adjourning to February, but the favours which I immediately laid before them, prevailed on them to stay out this day—I suppose they will readily make provision for the better subsistence of the Militia when called out...
155To George Washington from William Livingston, 8 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your Excellencys Favour of the 3d of June, I really do not know what Dispositions General Dickinson has made to facilitate the militia’s coming out on an Emergency tho’ the Beacons I believe are all fixt & as I conceive his presence will be very necessary on such an occasion, I have desired his return into the State, & expect him daily. The contents of your Excellencys Letter on...
156To George Washington from William Livingston, 4 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I received your Excellency’s Favour of the first Instant yesterday, & the advice of Council being necessary to authorize me to comply with your Requisitions, I lost no Time in summoning one for that purpose—They could not be convened before this day. I have with their consent directed Colonel Seely to march the Militia under his command to Dobbs’s Ferry, there to wait your Excellency’s orders,...
157To George Washington from William Livingston, 9 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
While the Magistrates had the charges against Hetfield under consideration, he made his escape from the guard; and unless his treason (of which I have no doubt) could be more clearly proved than I imagine it would have been upon his tryal, it is perhaps best for the public, that he has been thus driven to take sanctuary with the Enemy where I believe he can do us less mischief, th<an in> his...
158To George Washington from William Livingston, 13 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have just received your Excellencys Letter of the 10th instant respecting your having established the Post at Dobb’s Ferry as the only one in this State for flags to pass from, & be received at. Of the necessity of this measure I am so fully convinced, that I shall immediately notify it to the officers of our Militia, & use every mean in my power to carry it into execution. your Excellency...
159To George Washington from William Livingston, 15 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
On the application of Colls Biddle & Furman to the Governor in Council, the Council advised me to issue a Proclamation requiring the Magistrates to be attentive to the application of the persons employed in collecting forage for the troops & in executing the Law of the State for that purpose made. At the same time desiring me to represent to your Excellency, the general scarcity of grain &...
160To George Washington from William Livingston, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to your Excellency a Resolution of our Legislature desiring me to apply to you for some Ammunition. Lead is not to be purchased in Philadelphia; & tho’ we have employed a person to procure it in Boston, his journey thither & back again will necessarily keep us too long without that essential Article. I have the honour to be with the greatest esteem Dear Sir your...
161To George Washington from William Livingston, 20 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
By Intelligence from Staten Island which I think may be depended upon, the Enemy have prepared a number of fire ships (it is said 24) & their supposd destination is Cheesapeak. This perhaps may be proper to communicate to the French Admiral, that measures may be taken accordingly. It is not in my power Sir, to answer your Excellency’s Letter on the Subject of Supplies, because I can devise no...
162To George Washington from William Livingston, 7 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 7 Aug. 1778. On 11 Aug., GW wrote Livingston : “I was favor’d with yours of the 7th in[stant] this morning.”
163To George Washington from William Livingston, 18 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty to inclose you a Discharge from Capt. Wetherby to one Sharp a Soldier in the Service of the united States; and Sharp’s Affidavit of his having paid the Capt. 100 Dollars to obtain it. I cannot learn with any certainty to whose Battalion, Wetherby belongs, but am told that he belongs to Collo. Forman’s. If he was an officer in one of the Regiments raised by this State, I...
164To George Washington from William Livingston, 29 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
Application is made to me for a passport for one Major Tapping to go to Staten Island to procure a sum of money upon loan which he wants to borrow for the purpose of building a slitting mill in this State. The man is recommended to me as a good Whig, & it is rendered probable to me that by the means of a brother of his, on that Island, who has always been esteemed a friend to our cause, he...
165Proposed Alterations in William Smith’s Oration on General Montgomery, [before 6 March 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania On February 19, 1776, William Smith, Provost of the College of Philadelphia and Franklin’s old antagonist, delivered in one of the city churches an oration that Congress had requested on General Montgomery and the other Americans killed in the attack on Quebec. Smith was anything but a revolutionary, and still longed to see the quarrel peacefully...