1To George Washington from Col. Thomas Proctor, 18 March 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Col. Thomas Proctor, Capt. Winthrop Sargent, Capt. John Doughty, and Capt. Thomas Clark, 18 Mar. 1778. On 23 Mar., GW wrote Proctor, Sargent, Doughty, and Clark , “Business has prevented my answering yours of the 18th.”
2To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 18 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 7th Inst. late in the afternoon, I received your Excellency’s Orders to remove from the Clove to Paramus, on the 8th & 9 I called in the Several Commands from the passes of the Mountains, intending to March on the 10th, but was prevented by bad weather ’till the 11th when I march’d & reach’d this place—from the scattered Situation of the Buildings, the Soldiers are not Quartered in So...
3To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 26 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Col. Thomas Clark, 26 Feb. 1779. GW wrote Clark on 1 March : “I have yours of the 26th ulto by Capt. Armstrong.”
4To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 27 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Col. Thomas Clark, 27 Feb. 1779. Clark wrote GW on 1 March : “Since my last to your Excellency of the 26 & 27th Ulto.”
5To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 1 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I return you the Copy of the Arrangement of the 1st & 2d North Carolina Regiments, corrected, with a Copy from my papers in more regular order—we have had but two appointments and two resignations Since I saw the Committee of Arrangement at the White Plains. Since my last to your Excellency of the 26 & 27th Ulto my reconnoitering parties have returned and inform me the enemy on Hobuck are...
6To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
By Lt Colonel Mebane, I send your Excellency a return of the Men of the 1st & 2d N. Carolina Regiments reinlisted during the war—opposite each man’s name is the expiration of his former inlistment, the Bounty paid him in dollars and the Officer who reinlisted him I have not had time to compare it with the Muster rolls but the officers assure me they have ben very careful, to comply with...
7To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 17 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday, on receiving information that a large body of the enemy had attacked and forced my Scouts from the New Bridge, I desired Lt Colonel Davidson to give your Excellency notice by express whilst I reconnoitered them, I found from my own observations and the best intelligence I could get that 500 had crossd the Bridge and taken possession of the hights on this side the river and a...
8To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 31 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment by express from my Scouting Officer at Tapan received intelligence that the enemy are at Tallars point with 42 Sail (Six of which are very large) and a number of flat Bottomd Boats they have landed a party of men on the other Side of the N. River and a party at the Slate —I have Sent for my out parties from Hackinsack &c. and am prepared to move at the Shortest notice to...
9Thomas Clark to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The Publisher of the Sketches of the Naval History of the United States , having determined on printing a second edition of that work, I take the liberty to request of you, if convenient, a detailed account of the Naval Engagements and Expeditions, by vessels of the United States , in which you have been personally concerned, or the accounts of which you have received from persons of veracity,...
10To John Adams from Thomas Clark, 17 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty to forward to you a Copy of the Naval history of the U.S. Your kindness & zealous exertions have excited in me a sincere gratitude. Of our naval history, as well as of our naval establishment, you have been the first patron, & most active promoter. Enclosed are some of the proposals for the publication of my long contemplated history of the United States. Your...