181From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 21 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your opinion on the foregoing quæries, and on such other matters as relates to the business which is unfolding and wch requires the closest attention under our circumstances will be thankfully received by Yr Affecte Servt ADfS , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . GW apparently sent a similar document to Brig. Gen. Henry Knox (see Knox to GW, 23 May ). GW drafted these “Quæries” above his...
182From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 21 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 10th. I am exceedingly sorry to hear of the ravages committed upon the settlements of schohary and Conajohare, but it is some consolation to find that a supply of provision has been thrown into Fort schuyler. I wish it was in my power to send up the 100 Barrels of salt provisions which you request. By the last return from West point there were...
183From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 6 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your favr of the 31st ulto and 1st instant was this day forwarded to me by His Excellency Governor Clinton. I immediately ordered Genl Heath to detach the three remaining Regiments of the York Brigade, if he could conveniently spare them all to Albany, where they will receive further orders from Brigadier Genl Clinton. Should any intelligence which you may receive make it unnecessary for these...
184From 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,...
185From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 20 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The perplexed State of our Military Affairs—generally—and the embarrassments with which I am (or more properly speaking have been, for they are not so great now as they were) surrounded in this quarter, must appologize for my not acknowledging the receipt of Your obliging favor of the 21st Ulto Sooner. It is with peculiar pleasure I hear that Maryland has acceded to the Confederation, & that...
186From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 21 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 20th of December found me as you conjectured by that fire side, from which I had been too long absent for my own convenience; to which I returned with the greatest avidity the moment my public avocations would permit; and from which I hope never again to be withdrawn. While I am here solacing myself in my retreat from the busy scenes of life, I am not only made extremely...
187From 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...
188From 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...
189Circular on the State of American Agriculture, 25 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
Some enquiries having been made of me by important Characters on the state of agriculture in America, comprehending its Several relations, and intended to ascertain the value of our lands, with their yield in the several kinds of grain, grass &ca—the prices of farming stock, the prices of produce &ca together with a list of the Taxes in the different States, which may in any way affect the...
190From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 20 June 1777 (Jay Papers)
It would have given me Pleasure to have ^ sooner ^ acknowledged the Rec t of your Letters of the 10 & 14 Ins t . before they [ illegible ] I returned a few Days ago on Tuesday last from Fish Kill & postponed writing till I could make the Enquiries neceess collect the Materials necessary to pass Judgment of the Matter alluded to in your L
191From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 11 July 1777 (Jay Papers)
The Council have directed me to transmit to you by Express the enclosed Extracts of a Letter from General Schuyler. They think it of Importance that you should from time to time be apprized of the Situation of Affairs in the Northern Department, & will omit no opportunity of communicating to you whatever Intelligence they may recieve from that Quarter— The Evacuation of Ticonderogah appears to...
192From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 21 July 1777 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 14. Inst. came safe to hand— I am happy to see so much Cheerfulness Diffused thro it. I hope your sweet smiling Genius ^ [ in margin ] won’t play the Coquette with you . The confidential part of your Letter shall remain secret. Putnams answer was cautious—he believed there was a fault somewhere—but neither excused or accused any Body— I suspect from this that nor did he take...
193From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 26 July 1777 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 24 Inst covering a Letter from Gen: S t . Clair was delivered to me this Evening. I have sent the latter to the Press. It will be printed entire— Extracts might be followed by Suspicions The malicious might remark that Parts were concealed which if made known would probably give a different Colour to the whole. A Number of Holts Papers shall be sent you; & Care taken to...
194From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 12 September 1777 (Jay Papers)
Your Letters should not have remained so long unanswered, had I not daily expected the Pleasure of seeing you here but Coll Renselaer a few Days ago informed me that the Business of the Public would detain you sometime longer yet at Albany The several Copies of Orders &c a ., I rec d . on the Way from Philadelphia, & immediately inclosed them together with Your Letter to M r Duane. It was...
195From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 11 December 1777 (Jay Papers)
Your very friendly Letter of the 6 th : Ult. was this Moment delivered. In what careless Hands it has lain so long I cannot concieve. An Expectation of being speedily sent to Albany induced me to defer answering your Favor of the 17 Ult. ^ Oct r ^ till I should have the Pleasure of a personal Interview. Our wise ones however for certain Reasons have suffered the Constitution to lay dormant,...
196From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 6 February 1778 (Jay Papers)
Your Favors of the 26 Ul t . & 1 st . Inst have reached me. M r Yates has delivered to me the Loan Office Bill— accept my Thanks for your Attention to it. The Council ^ of ^ Revision & the Indisposition of my Father forbid my being at a greater Distance from FishKill at present. God knows how long the latter Reason may exist or in what Manner cease. Of all Evils those of the domestic kind give...
197From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 12 February 1778 (Jay Papers)
The assembly are preparing a Tax Bill & Debates run high on the Question whether unimproved located Lands shall be taxed. They have ordered a separate Bill for that Purpose to be prepared, and seem determined that it shall proceed pari Passu with the other. I hope you will seriously determine to serve your Country, at least in a legislative Capacity. Class yourself with those great Men of...
198From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 26 February 1778 (Jay Papers)
As an opportunity of my going will probab of going to Albany will not probably be given me during the Session of the Legislature, & as I have too long kept you in Suspense relative to the farm you was so kind as to offer me, I must ought now to inform ^ acquaint ^ You that I am under a Necessity of declining denying myself the Pleasure of being your Neighbour. My Fathers Infirmities Health ill...
199From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 8 December 1778 (Jay Papers)
Delayed by several unavoidable accidents I did not arrive here till Sunday last. I was happy to find your Acquittal confirmed by Congress, and most sincerely congratulate you on that important as well as pleasing Event. What is next to be done is a Question which I flatter myself you will determine in a Manner most conducive to the Interest of that great Cause of which you have been an able &...
200From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 15 January 1779 (Jay Papers)
As the Secretary has neglected to furnish me (as usual) with the dates of your late Letters to Congress, and your Express Sets out early in the Morning I must describe them by the Subject-Matter.— The one on the Subject of your Resignation still remains under consideration— The one respecting the Request of the Oneidas is referred to a Committee appointed to confer with General Washington who...
201From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 21 March 1779 (Jay Papers)
So uncertain has been the Fate of Letters during the Course of this War, that I very seldom write one without adverting to the Possibility & Consequences of its Miscarriage and Publication. This Caution has on a late occasion given me much Consolation. Two of my Letters to M rs . Jay fell into the Enemy’s Hands at Elizabeth Town. They contained nothing that would give me Uneasiness if...
202From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 19 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Altho my Correspondents have necessarily become numerous I shall nevertheless think the number too small, till your name be added to the List. It has long been my wish to cherish in private Life, the Connection which commenced between us when public Men; and to render that reciprocal Regard which attached us to each other in Times of Danger and Commotion, the manner of subservient to our...
203From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 25 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have the Satisfaction of finding by the Return of the Vessel which carried my Dispatches of June last to Congress, that the Duplicate of a Letter written to you on my arrival at Cadiz and sent by her has probably reached You. As there is Reason to believe that you are still in Congress, I refer you for the political State of Affairs here to my public Letter which You will find long and...
204From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 17 March 1785 (Jay Papers)
I sh d . have immediately replied to your obliging Letter covering yo the Plans for a House, had It not found me employed in preparing Dispatches to go by the Packets— Accept my thanks for your friendly attention to that matter—The Plans are ingenious—but I shall adopt your Idea of not having the Entry in the middle. Agreable to your Advice I shall get my Timber from Jersey especially as I...
205From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 12 April 1796 (Jay Papers)
In pursuance of what passed between us the Day before Yesterday, I now enclose the Boundaries of the Tract granted to L d . amherst. It has been so long neglected, that I sh d . not be surprized if a number of Intruders have settled on it. I think with You that the best Way of obtaining correct Information will be to employ a Surveyor to visit it, and to instruct him to ascertain and report...
206From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 25 July 1804 (Jay Papers)
The Friendship and attachment which I have so long and so uniformly experienced from you, will not permit me to delay expressing how deeply and sincerely I participate with you in the afflicting Event which the Public are now lamenting, and which you have so many domestic and particular Reasons to bewail. The phylosophic Topics of Consolation are familiar to You, and we all know by Experience...
207From James Madison to Philip Schuyler, 5 October 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 5 October 1789, New York. Acknowledged in Schuyler to JM, 1 Nov. 1789 , and enclosed in JM to Hamilton, ca. 5 Oct. 1789 . Asks Schuyler to contact John Taylor of Albany regarding a contract with JM and James Monroe to buy 900 acres in the Mohawk Valley.