1To George Washington from Fairfax Independent Company, 25 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s hand, ...“A Size Roll of the Independant Company of Alexandria” containing fifty-six names, largely of prominent Alexandria and Fairfax County citizens. Among those named are Peter Wagener, Jr., Charles Broadwater, Lund Washington, Daniel McCarty, Robert Alexander, and Martin Cockburn.
2From George Washington to the Officers of Five Virginia Independent Companies, 20 June 1775 (Washington Papers)
Copy, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, .
The cover is addressed “To The Independant Companies of Fairfax—Prince William—Fauquier—Spotsylvania & Richmond.” Robert Hanson Harrison, who later became GW’s secretary, was a subaltern in the Fairfax Independent Company. GW’s original letter apparently was delivered to the Fairfax officers, who had copies made
...in the supplement to Alexander...
3[September 1775] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Smith, Mr. Imlay and Mr. Hanson, breakfasted with us. Smith is an Englishman, Imlay and Hanson N. Yorkers.I went in the Bull Dog Captn. Alexander Commander. Mr. Hillegas, Mr. Owen Biddle, and Mr. Rittenhouse, and Capt. Faulkner
4To George Washington from Lund Washington, 29 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
...Cty a great many of them are taken out of our Company 40 I believe altogether for the Minute Service & Militia, I believe the Captns for the militia are Gilpin, Harrison, Phil: & Gerrard Alexander, Triplett, (Thos) Moody, Dulany, Ed. payne, James Wren, Pollard, Waggoner, Cockburn, John Seale, John Hunter, and one more which I cannot recollect the remains of our Company with several others...
5[November 1775] (Adams Papers)
John HansonCharles Alexander.
6[List of Persons Suitable for Naval Commands, November 1775] (Adams Papers)
John HansonCharles Alexander.
7To George Washington from Lund Washington, 24 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
The letter sent by Robert Hanson Harrison was the one of 15 Oct., and the letter sent by Martha Washington was the one of 14 November. The previous Sunday was 19 November., 16 Nov., and Alexander Purdie’s
8From George Washington to Colonel Alexander McDougall, 4 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing,
9To George Washington from Lund Washington, 17 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Lund Washington of 25 Dec. 1775 has not been found. Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731–1801), who lived across the Potomac River
GW to Robert Alexander, 20 Mar. 1777
10From George Washington to Major General Charles Lee, 23 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, GW to Alexander McDougall, 13 Jan.
11To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Putnam, 11 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
. Those shortages were alleviated by the cannon and mortars recently brought from Ticonderoga by Henry Knox and the shot and shells sent from New York City by Alexander McDougall....inspecting the Dorchester area on this date. “His Excellency with Coll Gridley & Col. Knox,” Robert Hanson Harrison wrote to Artemas Ward early today, “will be at your Quarters at 10 OClock this morning in...
12From George Washington to Colonel Alexander McDougall, 7 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing,
13From George Washington to the New York Provincial Congress, 7 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
14From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee on Fortifying Ports, 8 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
15From George Washington to Joseph Trumbull, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
16From George Washington to Brigadier General David Wooster, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
17Orders to Major Peter Schuyler, 10 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
18From George Washington to Samuel Chase, 13 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
19From George Washington to John Hancock, 13 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
20From George Washington to Nathaniel Woodhull, 13 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
21General Orders, 21 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
The General has been pleased to appoint Richard Cary and Samuel Webb Esquires, his Aid-du-Camps—and Alexander Counter Harrison Esqr: assistant Secretary, who are to be obeyed and regarded as such....-de-camp William Palfrey and Stephen Moylan, who had received more important appointments: Palfrey as paymaster general and Moylan as quartermaster general. GW’s new assistant secretary, Alexander...
22From George Washington to the Essex County Committee of Safety, 21 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
23From George Washington to John Hancock, 21 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing,
24From George Washington to John Hancock, 23 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, GW may be referring to Deputy Adjutant General Alexander Scammell’s “Return of the Continental Forces in Canada June 12th 1776,” a copy of which is in
25From George Washington to the Board of War, 29 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, ...Col. John Nixon’s list for his 4th Continental Regiment is dated 6 July; Col. Charles Webb’s list for his 19th Continental Regiment is dated 2–29 July; Col. Alexander McDougall’s list for his 1st New York Regiment is endorsed simply July 1776; Lt. Col. Frederick Weissenfels’s list for Col. Rudolphus Ritzema’s 3d New York Regiment is endorsed 2 July....
26Council of War, 29 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s and William Grayson’s writings, The place in the lines where Capt. Alexander Graydon of the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment was posted “was low and unfavourable for defence. There was a
27From George Washington to John Hancock, 29 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, Capt. Alexander Graydon says that on 28 Aug. “there was an incessant skirmishing kept up in the day-time between our riflemen and the enemy’s irregulars; and the firing was sometimes so brisk, as to indicate an approaching general...
28To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 29 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...). Johnson, who had served in Canada during the previous fall and winter as first lieutenant of Capt. John Lamb’s independent New York artillery company, was appointed first lieutenant of Capt. Alexander Hamilton’s independent New York artillery company in February 1776. Hamilton informed the New York convention on 12 Aug. 1776 that Johnson had been promoted “to a captaincy of one of the...
29To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 10 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
In a letter of this date addressed “to General Heath or General Miflin,” Gen. Alexander McDougall reports: “Early this morning about 1000 of the Enemy landed on montresours Island; and its probable many more will be landed there for the Conveniency of landing on the main, or to raise a Battery to facilitate......Hanson Harrison replied to Heath on 11 Sept. that GW was “fully sensible that you...
30From George Washington to John Hancock, 18 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, Alexander Leslie (1731–1794), who had served as lieutenant colonel of the 64th Regiment at Boston for several years before the war and during the siege of 1775–76, was brevetted a brigadier general in America by General Howe...
31To George Washington from William Fitzhugh, 13 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
). The four commissioners appointed were James Lloyd Chamberlaine, Benjamin Rumsey, Thomas Contee, and John Hanson, Jr.Thomas Contee (1729–1811), a Prince George’s County, Md., tobacco trader and planter who resided at Brookefield, his family estate near Nottingham, was an uncle of Alexander Contee Hanson, GW’s assistant secretary at this time. Contee repeatedly served in the Maryland...
32Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 29 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
...-pronged attack on that “material post.” Rall’s brigade was directed to attack the American right flank on Chatterton Hill while a frontal assault on the hill was made by Hessians of the Lossberg Regiment supported by Gen. Alexander Leslie’s 2d British Brigade and Col. Carl Emil Kurt von Donop’s Hessian grenadier brigade (William Howe to George Germain, 30 Nov., in ...Gen. Alexander...
33From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 21 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, Alexander McDougall to GW, 19 Dec.
34From George Washington to Colonel George Baylor, 9 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
On 10 Jan. GW instructed Robert Hanson Harrison to forward GW’s letter to Maj. Alexander Clough, which has not been found. Alexander Clough (d. 1778) served as a lieutenant and adjutant in the 1st New Jersey Regiment from December 1775 until GW offered him this majority. GW commended Clough for bravery in a skirmish with the British light horse at...
35From George Washington to Maj. Alexander Clough, 9 January 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
to Maj. Alexander Clough, c.9 Jan. 1777. GW said in on 10 Jan. GW wrote Robert Hanson Harrison
36From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 10 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
. GW’s letter to Alexander Clough, which is mentioned also in GW’s letter to Baylor of 9 Jan., has not been found.
37To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [20 January 1777] (Hamilton Papers)
A statement in George Washington’s letter to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, VII, 519) as Alexander Hamilton. It is probable that it was in this letter that Washington asked H to join his staff as an aide-de-camp.
38From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 20 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
This enclosure has not been found, but it may have contained a letter from GW to Capt. Alexander Hamilton requesting him to enter into his military family as an aide-de-camp. Hamilton was appointed an aide-de-camp to GW on 1 Mar. 1777 (see
39From George Washington to Brigadier General James Clinton, 9 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, GW enclosed this letter in his to Brig. Gen. Alexander McDougall of this date
40From George Washington to Brigadier General Alexander McDougall, 9 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, owned (1997) by Mr. Joseph Rubinfine, West Palm Beach, Florida;
.
Robert Hanson Harrison wrote a note on the cover of the
41From George Washington to Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston, 20 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, ). Regnier visited GW’s headquarters in March 1777 to inquire about the convention’s actions regarding his appointment, and GW referred him to Brig. Gen. Alexander McDougall (see GW to McDougall, 21 Mar. 1777,
42General Orders, 1 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
Alexander Hamilton Esqr: is appointed Aide-De-Camp to the Commander in Chief, and is to be respected and obeyed as such.GW to Robert Hanson Harrison, 20 Jan. 1777
43George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, [4 March 1777] (Hamilton Papers)
Alexander Hamilton
44Orders to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 4 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Alexander Hamilton’s writing, .
The document is countersigned by Alexander Hamilton. The text in angle brackets is mutilated.
45From George Washington to Brigadier General Alexander McDougall, 15 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, owned (1997) by Mr. Joseph Rubinfine, West Palm Beach, Florida;
46From George Washington to Robert Alexander, 20 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of justice, in fulfilling his Bargains and complying with his wishes, if he had been really in earnest in requesting the matter of her; especially, as the inducement which you thought would have a powerful operation on Mrs Alexander, namely the birth of a Child, has been doubled, and tripled....will believe, that the fault is not in Mrs Alexander, but yourself, if matters are procrastinated...
47From George Washington to John Hancock, 29 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, Alexander McDougall to GW, both this date
48From George Washington to John Hancock, 29 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, Alexander McDougall to GW, this date
49From George Washington to John Hancock, 31 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, to Alexander McDougall, this date
50To George Washington from Brigadier General Alexander McDougall, 12 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
is in McDougall’s writing. Robert Hanson Harrison mistakenly docketed the