19501To George Washington from John Hancock, 14–16 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely happy to have it in my Power to assure you that the several Matters referred to Congress in your Letters, will receive a speedy Determination. With great Pleasure I shall transmit you the Result, as soon as I am ordered. I enclose to you, at this Time, sundry important Resolves, to which I beg Leave to refer your Attention. You will there perceive that Congress have ordered 9000...
19502To George Washington from Brigadier General Edward Hand, 26 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote your Excy on the 23d from this place I informed you I entended visiting Col. Blain D.C.G. of Purchases to inform myself of the prospects he has of procuring the provision Ordered by your Excy for the Susquehannah—I at the same [time] hoped to see Col. Heartly, but was disappointed, he being at Baltimore—you have Col. Blains report inclosed—and he has given me the strongest...
19503To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 21 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am just honored with yours of the 20th. A small supply of flour arrived yesterday. I will endeavour to enquire into the issues of provisions; but as the weekly returns are now sent to the Adjutant General, and the scarcity of paper forbidding duplicate Returns, I shall not have so good an opportunity of compareing the regimental & provision Returns, as probably the Adjutant General will...
19504To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honour to return you the letter from the President of the Assembly of representatives for the community of Paris to the President and members of Congress, which you had recieved from the President of the Senate with the opinion of that house that it should be opened by you, and their request that you would communicate to Congress such parts of it as in your opinion might be...
19505To George Washington from Eleazar Wheelock, 26 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Mr Joseph Johnson, an Indian of the Mohegan Tribe was educated in my School when in Connecticut, and Since he left it has been employed in keeping School Among the Six Nations, till he is become considerably Master of their Language and has Served as interpreter for a Missionary Which I have Sent to these Nations—The August before last he was examined by a Voluntary Convention of...
19506To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Favor of the 18th Instant I had the Honor to receive about two O’Clock this Morning. I shall take the Liberty, to shew General St Clair that part of your Letter which relates to him but, I believe, before this, you will have received a Letter of his of the 17th Instant, probably on the Subject of the Evacuation of Tyonderoga—Mine of the 18th in Answer to your Excellency’s of...
19507To George Washington from William Brown, 29 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to send enclosed the general return of the Sick and Wounded in the hospitals for the month of April —it should have been made earlier, but that I was in hopes by waiting a week after my arrival in Camp from Virginia, I should be able to collect a larger number of the returns from the more distant hospitals, so as to render the general return more complete. While in Virginia I had...
19508To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 26 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 21st Instant inclosing Colo: Stark’s Letter to General Gates. On the 16th Instant I wrote to Congress, desiring that the Money to be allowed for Rations in this Department might be determined—That I had refused to do it until ordered by your Excellency or by Congress, and gave my Reasons for it —I have not yet been honored with their Answer—I...
19509To George Washington from James McHenry, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Without pursuing any official form, (with which I cannot say I am yet acquainted), I take the liberty to submit the thoughts that have occurred to me on reading the letters you were pleased to put into my hands on saturday last. Were you to conform to the dictates of friendship and receive publicly into your family the son of Mr La Fayette, it might be productive of certain political...
19510To George Washington from William Livingston, 27 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellencys favour of the 16 instant, & am greatly obliged to you for your kind Congratulation on my Re-election to the Government. If your Excellency has seen a certain Lybel in Collins’s Paper, you will probably acknowledge that I have rather been over taxed for the Emoluments of the appointment; but Calumny Sir is a Tax that the Tories will impose upon every man who...