1To George Washington from Colonel Henry Babcock, 3 March 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Colonel Henry Babcock, 3 Mar. 1776. Robert Hanson Harrison wrote to Babcock on 4 Mar.: “I am commanded by his Excellency to Acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the third Instant, and to Inform you that Col. Putnam is sick, and that Operations of such Importance are now carrying on here, that It is not in his power to spare you an Engineer or any men from these...
2To George Washington from Colonel Henry Babcock, 10 March 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Colonel Henry Babcock, 10 Mar. 1776. Stephen Moylan wrote to Babcock on 12 Mar.: “I have it in Command from his Excellency Gen. Washington to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 10th Instant with the inclosures” ( DLC:GW ).
3To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have lately been informed from indisputable Authority that Your Excellency tho’t proper to severely reprimand my Worthy Friend Genl Putnam for recommending Me to your Notice, and that he ought to know Me better than so warmly to have mentioned Me as a Person in his Esteem deserving the Rank of a Brigr Genl in the Continental Army. How your Excellency should have presumed thus unwarrantably...
4To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 20 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
The great Regard I have for Justice, & the well grounded Esteem, I have for an extreamly injured Character (in the Person of Capn Saltonstall) will I hope be a sufficient Apology for my giving your Excellency the Trouble of this Letter. When I saw his Orders signed by Warren, & Verno[n] viz. in the usual Form. “You are to proceed to Penobscot, burn sink & destroy &c.[”] They go on to say in a...
5To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 24 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have had the Honor of proposing to the Genl Assembly of Connecticut a Method of pay’g the Army, with solid Coin, and furnishing Magazines of Provisions, with the same Currency; & not compel your Excellency, to distress the Inhabitants of the Jersys; who have repeatedly sustained great Injurys, both from the Enemy, as well as our Army. Your Letters upon that Subject laid before the Assembly...
6To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 5 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Tho early in Life I had the Honor of receiving Answers to my Letters from Sir Wm Johnson, Lord Loudon; Governors Hopkins, Pitkin, & Franklin; Genls Abercrombie, Lord Howe, & Lord Amherst (the present Commander in Chief of the Troops of G. Britain)—The great Dr Franklin, who (I ever tho’t) took Rank of the whole of the above Gentlemen, (tho some of them)—and indeed all of them respectable...
7To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 26 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I hope your Excellency is arrived safe at your Head Quarters in Windsor—Last Wednesday a British Officer (who was in Newport in Disguise when Your Excellency was there, and had a Party in Connecticut to have seized you, and carried You Prisoner to long Island) was carried by a whale Boat from Groton to long Island: the Persons who carried the British Officer over, were pursued by two of our...
8To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you, upon the Independency of your Country, The Conspicuous part your Excellency has acted, upon the Great American Drama in bringing about this important Revolution, will ever endear you to your Country, & many Millions yet unborn, will rise up, and call you blessed. as the Father and protector of your Country, of the rights of Humanity. In Opposition to the...
9To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 25 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
Great illustrious, Sir! I have for these several Years set down to my desk to congratulate Your Excellency, upon your unparreled Successes in Arms. There is a Gentleman that lives in Northampton who studies under the great Doctor Stiles, President of Yale College, in the State of Connecticut; has a true Poetick Vain, superior to any Man, I am acquainted with, who would (if possible[)] do...