51To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is a state of the ordnance at the Northern posts. Your Excellency will be able to judge whether any can be taken from thence to be carried forward, and from which place. Upon a consideration of the importance of Niagara, perhaps it may not be adviseable to have fewer cannon than twelve, of different sizes, and six mortars and howitzers. These would form two or three respectable...
52To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 15 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed are Copies of Letters that were brought to Fort Harkermer by one white man and one Indian from Otswego, and delivered to the Commanding Officer from whom I reciev’d them last ev e ning. By a Gentleman just arrived in this City from Cannada, am informed that Baron Stuben had got as far on his journey as Chamble Monday the 4th Inst. so that we may verry shortly expect to hear from...
53To George Washington from Richard Varick, 14 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
State of the Volumes remaining in the Hands of Mr Varick Recording Secy at Poughkeepsie Augt 14. 1783. Titles No. of pages of No. of each Volume No of Vols. Vols. contains .
54To George Washington from George Clinton, 13 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I would just inform your Excellency that since Colo. Humphrey left me this Afternoon I have received a very satisfactory Report from this Person, employed to procure Money on Loan for the Use of the State; so that the only difficulty which now remains is to Justify me in the Appropriation of it for this Purpose of Garissioning the Western Posts And to this End I shall convene a Council without...
55To George Washington from William Gordon, 13 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging letter of the 8th ulto was duly received. We have been earnestly waiting for the definitive treaty, but as yet have had no authentic account of it. However looking upon it as certain & at hand, have determined with the permission of Heaven setting off for the Jerseys next monday fortnight. Mrs Gordon accompanying me in the chaise will oblige us for the sake of better roads & a...
56To George Washington from Christian Nagle, 13 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency George Washington Esqr. Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America. The most humble Petition of Christian Nogell Serjeant of the 3d Regiment of Pensylvania Most humbly Sheweth That your most unhappy and unfortunate Petitioner being accused of Mutiny, and by an Honourable Court Martial Sentenced to die—Your unfortunate Petitioner having Served as a...
57To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
With this your Excellency will receive my public Letter of this Date—That your Excellency may be informed of every Act of Congress, relating to yourself personally, I do myself the honor of enclosing for your private Information, a Copy of an Address proposed to be delivered to your Excellency on your Attendance here, in Case it should precede the definitive Treaty. I also enclose an Act of...
58To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favours of the 6th inst. gave me great pleasure, as they announced your safe arrival after so expeditious & fatiguing a Journey. The Resolution of Congress requested by your Excellency was forwarded several days since, but it cannot answer your expectations. Congress wished to have your Excellency’s personal aid at forming the peace arrangement whenever that Report was called...
59To George Washington from Robert Morris, 12 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s favor of the Sixth Instant—I am always happy to hear from you altho I confess that every new Demand for Money makes me Shudder. Your Recommendations will always meet my utmost attention because I am perswaded that you have equally with me the Desire to husband and to enlarge our Resources—Your perfect Knowlege of our political and military Situation must...
60To George Washington from Frederick Haldimand, 11 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive, by the Hands of Major General Baron de Steuben, your Excellency’s Letter of the 12th of July last, communicating to me your having received Instructions from the Congress of the United States to make proper Arrangements with the Commanders in Chief of the British Forces in America for receiving Possession of the Posts in the United States occupied by the Troops...
61To George Washington from James McHenry, 11 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am just now honored with your letter of the 6th. You have indeed gone over a great deal of ground in a very short time. The first motive for bringing you here was to get you out of a disagreeable situation, to one less disagreeable. The second was to get your assistance and advice in the arrangements for peace. It may be necessary besides to consult you respecting promotions, and on a...
62To George Washington from David Brooks, 10 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Of the articles which Your Excellency has specified in your Letter of this date, we can supply from the store as follows, viz. 320 Uniform Coats blue faced red 20 white faced blue, for Music 340 Coats 500 Vests 500 Wn Overalls (good) 1000 pairs stockings, 500 pairs socks, 500 Milled Caps, 500 pair Mitts, 500 shirts 1500 pair shoes (good) & 150 Watch Coats, such as the one I send here with....
63To George Washington from Daniel Parker, 10 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
We had the honor to receive your favor of the 26th ulto last Evening directing us to deposit in Fort Herkemer one hundred and fifty thousand rations of provisions, being a supply for 500 men ten months. We observe that your Excellency directs the Flesh part of the ration (consisting of pork and beef) to be of the best quality and well preserved to this End we are now taking measures for...
64To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 9 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to directions received from your Excellency (through Colonel Humphrys) I have enquiered into the cause of the punishment Inflicted by Captain Brown Commanding the Rhode Island troops at Saratoga, on one Jenkins a furloughed Soldier from the Rhode Island regiment, And find from the Concurrent testimony of the officers who have the present charge of those troops Corroborated by General...
65To George Washington from Nathanael Greene, 8 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote you last I did not expect to address you from this place again; but Col. Carrington has detained me upwards of a week to complete the business of his department. On Thursday next we set off by land for the Northward. The Assembly of this State have rejected the impost Act recommended by Congress. Had your circular letter been printed a fortnight earlier I am persuaded it would...
66To George Washington from Abraham Ten Broeck, 4 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
We the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany, with the sincerest Pleasure, avail ourselves of this opportunity, to offer your Excellency, our most cordial Congratulations on the formal Recognition of the Independence of the United States, by that Power which has so long anxiously laboured to subvert it. The Citizens of America and their Posterity, will ever have abundant Reason...
67To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 4 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to Your Excellency about ten days ago relating to the building a Mill on Difficult, and mentioned the Hint that had also been given to me about it, but that I had not been able to learn that there was any such design and also my Opinion that it would not be done without my concurrence, which would not be had. Since which I have had another Hint from the same Hand, with an application...
68To George Washington from Daniel Lyman, 4 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive Your Excellencys favor of the 9th Ulto a few days since on my return from Boston, where I had been to take my leave of General Heath. Your Nephew will always command me in every thing that may contribute to his convenience whilst he remains on this Island; but I am fearful that neither our attentions, the temperature & salubrity of the climate, nor the skill of his...
69To George Washington from John Darby, 2 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had sanguine hopes to have had the honour I have long ardently desired of being made known to your Excellency by the delivery of the letter which Mr Parker is good enough to charge himself with—introduced as I should have been by this & other letters to which I could not doubt yr Attention—Learning your absence from head Quarters I made an excursion to this place, but will very soon do...
70To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the assurance contained in my letter of yesterday by the Post, I do myself the pleasure of enclosing the Act of Congress referred to therein; and have the honor to be, with great regard, Your excellency’s Obedient & very humb. Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
71To George Washington from Benjamin Guerard, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 14th June—which, with chearfulness and pleasure, I will lay before our Legislature at their next Sitting. I thank you, sir, for your congratulations on the happy and glorious Event of the peace, an event, the more heartfelt and joyful, as our country is not only thereby relieved from the accumulated, and almost insuperable distresses it was...
72To George Washington from Christopher P. Yates, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency George Washington Esqr General and Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States. The Address of the Magistrates and Supervisors of the County of Tryon in behalf of themselves and the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County. Sir While we congratulate your Excellency on the conclusion of a Peace favourable to the United States we request you to accept of our...
73To George Washington from Bezaleel Howe, July 1783 (Washington Papers)
An Accoumpt of the Expences of His Excelency—the Commander in Chiefs Table and Money Payd to his Servants By Lieut. Bezl Howe in the Month of august 1783 Dates Dols. & 90th 17th to Water Millions 1 20th Cabage & Beanes 2 27th thirty one Lb. of Gammon 4 15 to two Gallons of Rum 1
74To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
A moments’ time is only allowed me, to inform your Excellency that I have it in command from Congress to acquaint you, that it is their pleasure that you should, as soon as convenient, after your return from the Northward, attend Congress at this place, as they think your presence will be of special service at this important period; and the change of situation may be more agreable to your...
75To George Washington from Thomas Dawson, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have information given me your Excellency has at different times advertized for a Person properly Skill’d in the Art of Agriculture in order to bring the lands in your Dominions to the same degree of perfection as in England &c. I now take the Liberty to Solicit your Excellency on the Business; I was Born in the Co. of Durham in the North of England where I was brot up in that line, I...
76To George Washington from James McHenry, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
You will forgive me for not writing to you sooner and attribute it to its real cause, not want of the sincerest inclination, but of Censure. Perhaps before this reaches you the president will have transmitted our resolve for bringing you here and relieving you from that disagreable situation of which you have so justly complained in your letter to Congress. I was chairman of the committee on...
77To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 30 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am this instant favoured with a lettre of the baron de Steuben a Copy of which I have the honor to inclose; as this is the first notice I have officially received relating to the society of Cincinnati , I have reason to be still at a loss to know whether the honor intended by the conference of that order on the americain’s officers extend to foreigners who have served in it with some...
78To George Washington from Horatio Gates, 29 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I would beg leave to represent to Your Excellency, that Mr William Clajon was my Secretary early in 1776—and that on the 9th of January 1777 Congress confirmed this Appointment, and added to it—that of Interpreter for the Northern Department. In this situation he has continued ’till now, without any military Rank. Like other public Officers he has claims upon the attention of the Public; and,...
79To George Washington from Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron [von] Steuben, 29 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to inform your Excellency that I have this morning arrived on board the Commodore’s Vessel off Crown point, the politeness and attention of this Gentleman induce me to believe that I shall meet with no difficulty or impediment in prosecuting the tour assigned me. In conversation with the Commodore I learn, that in conformity to his orders, he has landed the Prisoners...
80To George Washington from Du Bois de l’ Amoligniere, 27 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I send inclosed a discourse to the people whose liberty is the fruit of your labour this discourse dictated by circumstances may serve as a preface to an important work a project of Legislation, at which I have been some time working—I am no legislator and therefore it is not my own glory that I have in view, but solely the happiness of the Nation who shall adopt it—to offer it to America will...
81To George Washington from Lodwick, 25 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
May it not be offencive, to your Excellency When I acquaint your honour, of the porport of this broken line From four of yr heads of your brethern the onidias now Residing in this plac. the black Smith by name Lodwick. The beatch tree. thomas. and Peter fry of Said tribe or party Brother Warriour. as we know and are well assured that you are the head warriour of the thirteen united Stats, we...
82To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 24 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 16th inst., which was duly laid before Congress, committed and will soon receive an answer. Enclosed is an act of Congress of the 18th inst. relative to Mr Reuben Harvey. On the 21st, (We are informed from pretty good authority), the Mercury Frigate arrived in New York, with the definitive Treaty, which, it is...
83To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was honourd with your favour of 11th ulto. I called on Mr Rittenhouse to enquire for the Theodolet which you sent under my Care to be repaired in 1778—he says that he has it in good Order, tho’ taken to pieces & lay’d up—he will have it put together that it may be ready when you direct it to be called for. I have procurred 10 pieces of Ticklenberg of a good quality at 15d. per Ell and 200...
84To George Washington from Nathanael Greene, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The bearer of this Mr Clarke was an inhabitant of the City of Philadelphia and went off with the british Army when they left that place in—78. He is an old acquaintance of Col. Lawrens’s the late President of Congress and was introduced to me by Lt Col. John Lawrens his Son as a very deserving character altho he had been unfortunate in joining the enemy. He rendered us considerable service in...
85To George Washington from Robert Howe, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with your Excellency’s favour of the 16th instant yesterday. The Judge Advocate announced himself to me on the 14th—The General Court martial was ordered to sit the next day and was to have been composed of the officers of the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania lines—The officers of the latter from some points of delicacy declined acting and though I did not, for reasons which must...
86To George Washington from Lund Washington, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
Gibsons Deases of Horses The Compleat Horseman or Perfect Farrier by Sir Wm Hope The Sportsman Dictionary or Country Gentlemans Companion Langly on Gardening Millers Gardenars Dictionary Quinsys Dispensatory Advice to the people in general by Doctr Tissot Virginia Laws or Acts of Assembly Do Do by John Mercer Justice of the Peace in 4 Vol: by Richd Burn The Attorneys Pocket Book 2 Vol:...
87To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 22 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th of May is the last one that Came into My Hands for which I Beg leave to offer You My Best thanks—and in Case former Answers do not Arrive, I Must Again tell you How Happy You Made Your friend By Your letters inclosing the proceedings of the Army—In Every instance, My dear General, I Have the Satisfaction to Love and to Admire you—the Conduct You Had on that Occasion was...
88To George Washington from George McCall, 22 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having formerly had the Honor of Your Acquaintance, chiefly through means of my intimacy with our Worthy Friend Colol F. Lewis & his Family, I am encouraged to use the freedom of this Address. Allow me to inform your Excellency that I have been publickly declared Bankrupt, and imprisoned; for the heinious Crime of having a very decent fortune lockt up from me, (for a time) by means of a...
89To George Washington from Robert Morris, 22 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
Our mutual Friend Mr Jay has recommended to me very warmly the bearer of this letter Mr Darby, as a Gentn whose curiosity leads him to this Country & who on account of Family Fortune & personal Accomplishments is entitled to much attention. He is eager to pay his Compliments to you & I am perswaded that he will feel himself happy in the reception he will meet with. I have the honor to be Dear...
90To George Washington from Thomas Paine, 22 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer of this; Mr Darby who is introduced to this Country by Mr Laurens, was a Pupil of mine in London about twelve or fourteen years ago His curiosity to see the Great World of America, has induced him to take the voyage and make the tour of it. As it is his intention to visit Camp and wait on your Excellency, I presume in the liberty of adding this, to other introductions he is...
91To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 21 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of introducing to your Acquaintance Mr Darby a young Gentleman of family from England—He comes hither with warm Recommendations from our Ministers abroad and as far as may be determined from a very short Acquaintance is a Man of fashion who has kept the best Company—His Object is to see America and his first Excursion is to see you. Believe me very truly yours DLC : Papers...
92To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 20 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform you by the Baron, that a Letter from Colo. Smith dated the 15th and received the Day your Excellency left us, mentions, "that a large Embarkation of Refugees took place last Week, bound to Nova Scotia and Canada—One large transport was filled with Soldiers of different Corps for Quebec—a Number of the 17th light Dragoons are discharged, and are gone with the...
93To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 19 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Excellency’s Favor of the 15th of June. When I wrote my last Letter we had not then received any certain Accounts of the conclusion of the Peace, tho’ we did a few days afterwards by hearing of the Arrival of the french Cutter at Philadelphia. Some months ago there was a Hint given me of an Intention of building a Mill on Difficult, but whether I was told that there would...
94To George Washington from Abraham Schuyler, 19 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Corporation of the City of Albany having been apprized of your Excellency’s being on your way to that Place, have deputed us as a Committee to meet your Excellency previous to your Arrival. we have come thus far for that Purpose and are at the House of Mr Gerrit Staats whom we would request your Excellency’s Presence for a few Moments. We have the Honour to be Your Excellency’s Most...
95To George Washington from William Jackson, 18 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a late resolve of Congress. I am, with the most respectful attachment, Your obedient, humble, Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
96To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 17 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your Excellency’s favour relative to the promotions in General Hazen’s Regiment, which was referred to the Secretary at War to report. The Assistant Secretary has accordingly reported, that there is no record of any such promotions in his Office. I informed Congress how the matter stood, but they chose to have an official report from the Secretary. The fact is that...
97To George Washington from John Searle, 15 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
We think Ourselves very Highly Honor’d by the Receipt of your Excellency’s most Esteemed & obliging Favour of the 1st of May, & we feel ourselves quite Happy at Your having taken in so good Part Our shiping the Two Pipes of choice old wine for you in April last, which we are very glad to find were safe arriv’d at Maryland, & we have not the least Doubt but Messrs Charles Crookshanks & Co. of...
98To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 15 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s Letters of the 30th Ulto & 9th Inst. The Key of the Small trunk, I gave to Mr Cortlandt and am surprised at his inattention in not haveing it—The Duty of Arts and Sciences is in eight vols,but bound for more convenience in 4. I have acted with Mr Francis agreable to your Excellency’s directions & have requested him to present his Bills after...
99To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 15 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to inform your Excellency a very considerable embarkation of Refugees took place last week bound for Nova Scotia and Canada—one large Transport was filled with Soldiers of different Corps for Quebec and a number of the 17th Light Dragoons are discharged and accompany the refugees to the new Country. The Nonsuch a 64 sail’d on Thursday last for Europe with the regiment of Hesse...
100To George Washington from Canadian Officers, 14 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency General Washington &c. &c. The Subscribers in behalf of themselves and the Canadian Officers, Refugees—and driven from their Country by this burthensome War beg leave to lay before your Excellency their sad situation—seeing themselves abandoned in general by those who have conducted them in the just cause they have been engaged in since 1775—first with General Montgomery who...