10641To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely sorry your Excellency has been troubled with the affair to which the papers transmitted in your letter of this morning relate. Admitting the possibility of Doctor Gordons not being the author of what I must always call a calumny, and had he not been an irreconcileable enemy to plain dealing, the matter might have been brought to a very easy issue, without the necessity of an...
10642To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 5 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured with your Letter of the 31st Ulto covering Rivingtons Gazette extraordinary. I have received no official Intelligence from the Southward of the Surrender of Charlestown. All the Information from that Quarter which is come to hand, I received, this Day in a Letter from Governor Nash, covering Copies of a Letter from Govr Rutledge to him, and of an intercepted Letter signed...
10643To George Washington from Robert Morris, 17 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
By a Mistake it happened that the last Post did not carry my Acknowlegement of your Excellency’s Letter of the fourth Instant. I am very sorry to find that the Officer who conducted hither the Prisoners met with any Difficulties on the score of Provisions. The Contractor for New York and New Jersey being at Head Quarters I could wish your Excellency to direct such Arrangmements as may in...
10644To George Washington from Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron [von] Steuben, 23 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed I have the Honor of presenting Your Excellency with an Abstract of the Musters and the Inspection Returns for the Month of September. The laudable Ambition which after the first Inspection pervaded the Army still continues in a great Part. The Effect is seen in the elegant Appearance of the 3d Regt of Artillery, 1st Jersey 2nd New York, 2d 3d & 9 th Massachusetts. The 1st Regt of York...
10645To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 10 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreably to Your Excellency’s permission Major Troop Has My Leave to Return to the Army. The Commanding officers Have Represented that He was under Indispensable Necessity to go, and we can very well do without Him untill the aArrival of an other Major. Colonel Vose is, I am told, Very Desirous to Return to the Army. He has there a Regiment, and Before we join general greene our Bataïllons...
10646To George Washington from Colonel David Mason, 4 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Orders of the 12th of March last came to hand this Day The contents of which I Duly Notice and shall to the Utmost of my Power comply with; The State of my Regiment I cannot give your Excellency an exact account of at this time, but will inform you of the Number of Men that marched from this Station to day and Tomorrow, which will be about two Hundred and eighty, and I hope to have at...
10647To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 23 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor, a few days ago, to receive Your Excellency’s favor of the 17th inst., & last night that of the 20th came to hand. I am this day obliged to attend Col. Sheldon’s Tryal at West Point, nevertheless C—shall be immediately notified of the Questions which Your Excellency wishes to have resolved. I have moreover stated the same Points to Lt Col. Jameson, who still remains on the...
10648To George Washington from William Hull, 7 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
On my Arrival in this part of the Country I embraced the earliest Opportunity of consulting with the Honble Chief Justice Morris with Regard to the best Mode of answering the Purposes of my Command and altho’ I was strongly inclined to encamp the Corps in a Body, yet in Conformity to his Ideas, I agreed to divide it, and the Companies are now extended from Fort Independence to New Rochelle—At...
10649To George Washington from John Brooks, 15 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Report was made to me this morning by my Quarter Master that the beef in store was unfit to be issued—In consequence of which I appointed three officers to go and examine it. Their report I have taken the liberty to transmit to your Excellency. The Commissary, refusing to issue that of a better quality unless the poorest is taken with it, I have order’d my Quarter Master not to receive any...
10650To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 15 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honr to receive your excellencys letter on my return from the petersburg races —& I was happy I did not meet with any horses that woud answer your purpose, as I found by your letter that you gave the preference to mares. The bearer of this brings on a Mare & gelding—the mare is four years Old & well bred, has been used a little to the Saddle & charriot—& promises fairly to excell in...