10871To George Washington from Jeremiah Olney, 10 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Field officer Commanding the advance post at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson from 24th Augt to 8th Septr 1782, begs leave to Report, that he has (from time to time) Communicated to your Excellency every occurrence that has Come within the Sphere of his Observations—that he has nothing Further to Report that the State of the Garrison &c. &c., agreeable to the Inclos’d Reports—Save only that the...
10872To George Washington from Arthur St. Clair, 10 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been informed by Colonel Magaw, who is lately returned from Head Quarters that your Excellency had made some Enquiries about me, and the Time I proposed to go on to the Army—If your Excellency will please to recollect you proposed to point out the Time it would be necessary, and as I have received no Intimation of that kind; nor have heard with certainty whether any Command was pointed...
10873To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 10 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with Your Excellency’s favor of the 3d inst. & in Consequence thereof have been over to Long Island on the business mentioned in my last Letter, & have just returned from thence to this place. I have had an Interview with several Characters who have been serviceable in the way of Intelligence, particularly S.C. & have enclosed the Substance of the Intelligence they...
10874To George Washington from Jonathan Forman, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose for your Excellency the receipt for a letter sent the 8th inst. address’d for Sir Guy Carleton, togeather with eleven private letters receiv’d last evening ⅌ flagg from New York, one directed to Mr. Bray concerning four parol’d seamen, who were landed which was all the business of the flagg. Also a pasport from Brigadier Genrl Hazen for Mr Garosens passing to...
10875To George Washington from John Hanson, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honor to transmit to your Excellency, for the Observation of Congress, the Return of Recruits which have joined the Army up to the 31st of August last. I have the Honor to be sir Your Excellency’s Most Obedient and Most humle Servant DNA : Item 152, Letters from George Washington, PCC—Papers of the Continental Congress.
10876To George Washington from Henry Knox, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I cannot omit, informing your Excellency, of the conduct of the Contractors, in issuing provisions to this Garrison. It appears very extraordinary, and yet it has been practiced since the 20th of July. When I first received the information, I supposed it must have originated in a mistake, but upon examining Mr Forsyth, the issuing Commissary here, he says the probability of a mistake on the...
10877To George Washington from Robert R. Livingston, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I delayed an s wering your last favor in the expectation that we should receive some inteligence from Europe that it would give me pleasure to comminicate A ship arrived Last night from Holland she brings letters from Mr Adams but nothing which looks like a speedy termination of the war the negotiations still continue, Mr Jay & Mr Genvile remain in France tho’ I am much inclined to think from...
10878To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
After the Services, Sufferings & Anxieties of the Winter 1776 I little expected that Persons would be selected as the Season of my greatest Reprsent that I should stand publickly charged with not only meditating but actually expressing Intentions of deserting to the Enemy: Yet, Sir, so it is not mere News Paper Abuse or transient Report but actually countenanced & supported by a Person of some...
10879To George Washington from Comfort Sands, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Critical State of the Army with Respect to Supplies has Occasioned a meeting of the Parties in the Contract, at which the most of the Gentlemen Concern’d have attended. From the Inclosed Copy of our Letter to Mr Morris, which we Consider it our Duty to transmit to Your Excellency, You will see the present state of Supplies; what our future Prospects are, and the Determination we have been...
10880To George Washington from Jean-Louis-Ambroise, chevalier de Villefranche de Genton, 11 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
it is some time since the foundation of the Magazine has been diged, but the masonery has not been begun by want of Masons & others articles which have not been furnished by the quarter master General. Colonel pickering has given me to understand that he would send me twelve masons in a few days. the season is however so far advanced, that if all the materials were now on the spot, it would be...