181From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 4 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I last Night received the Favor of Your Letter of the 30th Ulto and am happy that You have Got the Directions of Congress upon the subject of Barracks, as It is high Time they should be begun where they are wanted. The Nails that are necessary I cannot supply. In Respect to Major Edminston’s Request, I cannot consent to his coming here. You may inform him that a General Exchange of Prisoners...
182From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 28–29 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 25th & Its several Inclosures with General Arnolds of the same Date, I received by Yesterday Morning’s Express, that of the 24th came by to Day’s Post. I am sorry General Sullivan, in the Situation our Affairs were in, should have stopped at the Isle au Noix till he could obtain Orders for retreating further, thereby hazarding his Army without a Prospect of Success, &...
183From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
I received Your Favor of the 18th with its several Inclosures on Thursday by Mr Allen. My Letter of the 13th does not, nor was It meant to contain the most distant Hint of Your Entertaining Doubts or Suspicions of my Not having communicated to Congress, such Parts of your Letters as were Material. It was only designed to answer Yours, where You say, since my Arrival here, You had not written...
184From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 26 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your several Favors of the 12th & 14th Instant came safely to Hand, though not in the proper Order of Time with their several Inclosures. You do me Justice in believing that I feel the utmost Anxiety for your Situation: that I sympathize with you in all your Distresses, and shall most heartily share in the Joy of your Success—My Anxiety extends itself to poor Arnold, whose Fate depends upon...
185From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I beg you will accept my thanks, for your obliging letter of the 30th Ulto and the polite expressions of your friendship which accompany it. At the same time, I am happy to congratulate you on your honorable acquital with the approbation of Congress. The information and remarks, you have favoured me with are very full and satisfactory; and I must request as you are good enough to promise, that...
186From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 9 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 2d instt—and must beg you to accept of my most grateful acknowledgments for your good wishes and kind gratulations upon my entrance on a new and arduous task. It is only from the assurances of support which I have received from the respectable & worthy characters in every part of the Union, that I am enabled to overcome the diffidence...
187From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 21 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
The duplicate of your favor of the 27th Ulto (the original is also come safe) and of the 10th & 12th Instt reached my hands with their inclosures this day, and I thank you for the several articles of intelligence therein contained. Lieutt McClelans acct of his Scout from Fort Schuyler to Oswegatchie is plain distinct, & pointed, so far as he undertakes to relate; but I can find no such water...
188From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 2 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was last Night favored with your’s of the 25th & 28h June with the several pieces of Intelligence which you had received from General Sinclair. Immediately upon the Receipt of your’s, I ordered the Troops which had been drawn down from peek’s Kill, to return to that place and sent off an Express to General Putnam to embark the four Regiments of Massachusetts with all their Baggage, that they...
189From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 15 May 1784 (Washington Papers)
It has long been my wish, and until lately my intention to have proceeded from this meeting of the Cincinnati to the Falls of Niagara—& probably into Canada. Two causes however prevent it—My business is of such a nature that I cannot without great inconvenience, be long absent from home, at this juncture—it is indeed, exceedingly inconvenient to be away from it at all—the other is, that I am...
190From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 24 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to thank you for your obliging Letter of the 15th, & to acknowledge with pleasure & gratitude, Mrs Schuylers intended favor to Mrs Washington; who, I am sure, would have been exceedingly happy in seeing her at head Qrs if it had been convenient to her to have stayed. My Letter of yesterday’s date will convey to you the acct of the taking of Stoney point. I was tolerably sanguine in...
191From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
I received your Favour of the 13th Instant with its Inclosures and am heartily sorry & most sincerely condole with you upon the unhappy Fall of the brave and worthy Montgomery & those gallant officers & Men, who have experienced a like Fate. In the Death of this Gentleman, America has sustained a heavy Loss, as he had approved himself a steady Friend to her Rights and of Ability to render her...
192From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 10 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 5th I have had the pleasure to receive. The event, which I have long dreaded would be the consequenc⟨e⟩ of keeping the Army without Pay, Cloathing, and (frequently without) Provision, has at length come to pass. On the Night of the first instant a general Mutiny of the Non Comd & private⟨s⟩ of the Pensyla line (near Morris town[)] took place—in attempting to suppress which,...
193From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was this Morning favored with your’s of the 7th Instant from Stilwater, inclosing a Copy of one you had received from General Learned. If that Letter is the only Foundation for your Apprehensions, you, in my Opinion, put a more unfavorable Construction upon it than it will bear—I rather think the Revd Mr Allen adverts to some Misfortune that had befallen Colo: Warner’s party, than to a total...
194From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Resolve and Extract of a Letter You will see is of some Standing: Upon Considering the Matter, I do not see how It is possible for Me to carry this Resolve into Execution, with tolerable Precision or Certainty[.] The Persons the Witnesses & All Other Circumstances are so totally unknown, that any Inquiry made by Me must be delusive & Unsatisfactory. I am therefore under the...
195From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 10 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Butlar affords me so safe a conveyance of your Papers, that I gladly embrace it. I thank you much for the loan of them, having taken such extracts as I conceived might be useful. The more I revolve on that part of Colonel Bradstreets Journal pointing out the rout & distance from Wood Ck to Oswegatchie the more anxious I am to have it thoroughly explored by intelligent persons; that the...
196From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
Last Night I received your Favor of the 14th Instant by Mr Bennet, inclosing a general Return of the Artillery & Military Stores in our possession in Canada. It gives me great pleasure to hear that you are improving in your Health, before long I sincerely hope you will be so recovered as to be able to go to the Army in Canada, where I am convinced you are much wanted, and wou’d be of the...
197From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 23 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Between one & two O’Clock this Morning, I received your Favor of Yesterday’s Date with a Return of the Troops You had sent to Bristol. Those belonging to the 2d 3d 5:6 & 11th Virginia Regiments, You will order to join their respective Corps immediately at the former Post. If the sixty Men, You mention to have arrived on the Night of the 21st are part of any of the above Regiments, You will...
198From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 12 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 6th which reached me yesterday, gives me hopes of the pleasure of seeing you in a day or two. General Sullivan must from his situation have been totally unacquainted with the circumstances of the Mohawks families at the lower Castle, his motive undoubtedly was to remove a set of people who, he had reason to beleive, were unfreindly and dangerous. But as the public faith has...
199From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your two Favors of the 21st & 22d Instant with the inclosed papers are come to Hand. I lament, that you have not yet been joined by a larger Number of Militia, and that it has been found necessary to dismiss a part, even of those that have come to your Assistance, notwithstanding their presence is at this Time so urgently wanted—I am however in Hopes that your Situation will soon wear a more...
200George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 July 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Pompton Plains [ New Jersey ] July 13, 1777. Discusses supplies sent to Schuyler. Is astonished that there has been no word from Major General Arthur St. Clair. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
201From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 1 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
On the 27th Ulto I had the pleasure of writing you and then mentioned my being under some Embarrassment, respecting the Application which I expected from our Caghnawaga Friends—I have now the pleasure to inform you that in a Talk they honored me with Yesterday, that they put the Matter upon the Footing I wished, that is, to join the Forces in Canada whenever you shall call for their...
202From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I received Yesterday your Favor of the 4th—I am greatly concerned at the rapid progress of General Burgoyne’s Army. I shall not enlarge at this Time for the Reasons mentioned in my last, and it is more than probable this will meet you on your Way to Head Quarters. I am Dr Sir Your most obedt humble Servant LB , NN : Schuyler Papers; Df , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
203From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am now to acknowledge Your Favor of the 1st Inst. & to inform You, that the two Sachems of the Cayugas, with Mr Deane the Interpreter, have been with me & spent three or four Days. I shewed them every Civility in My Power & presented them with such Necessaries as our Barren stores afforded and they were pleased to take; I also had them shewn all our Works upon this Island, which I had...
204From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 31 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I was about to fulfil the promise made to you in my last—of writing fully on the subject of your letter of the [ ] Instt & other matters —when your obliging favr of the 22d came to hand. The hint contained in it was too seasonable & striking for me not to derive a lesson of use from it. I shall therefore, as there is danger attending written communications of private Sentimts & my letters to...
205From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 20–21 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I herewith transmit You sundry Resolves of Congress respecting the Indians, the fortifying Fort Stanwix &c. & for rendering more easy & Commodious our passes into Canada. As the Resolves are of an Interesting & Important Nature, I must request Your particular Attention to them & most Active Exertions for accomplishing & Carrying the whole into Execution with all possible Dispatch. I am hope...
206From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of Your several Letters of the 21st, 24th, 26 & 26, 27, 28 & 31st Ulto with the several Papers inclosed. The whole of ’em except the last I communicated to Congress when at Philadelphia, That I did not get till on my Return, but have since transmitted them a Copy of It & of the Papers respecting Sir John Johnston. In Regard to a further Remittance to Canada,...
207From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 17 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I this Morning received Your Favor of the 13th Inst. with Its Inclosures, Conveying Intelligence of the Melancholly Situation of our Affairs in Canada; & am not Without My Fears, I confess, that the Prospect we had of possessing that Country of such Importance in the present Controversy is almost Over, or at best, that It will be Effected with much More Difficulty and Effusion of Blood than...