1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson, and Others, Public Creditors, 6 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 6, 1791. In a letter dated May 27, 1791 , and addressed to “Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson and others, Public Creditors,” Hamilton wrote: “I have received your letter of the sixth instant.” Letter not found. ] Forrest was “a purchaser of certificates and paper money” (Clement Biddle, The Philadelphia Directory [Philadelphia, 1791], 42). Nicholson was comptroller general of...
2To George Washington from Maj. Thomas Forrest, 9 March 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Thomas Forrest, 9 Mar. 1778. On 11 Mar., GW wrote Forrest , “I am favd with yours of the 9th.”
3To George Washington from Major Thomas Forrest, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Collonell Procter inform’s me it was Your Excellencys particular desire that the Officers of his Regt should give in their pretentions to Rank as Soon as possible. I cannot conceive from Your Excellency’s letter to me in March 1778 I have the least pretentions more than the date of my Commission. Your Excellency there Assures me that the promotion of Lt Coll Popkin in no ways touch’d my honor...
4To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Forrest, 24 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
The day after the unhappy Affair happened at Camp in the Line, I receiv’d a Letter from General Knox Ordering me on to Carlile to Superintend the Artificiers, in Compliance with his Order I have proceded thus far, & waited on the Board of Warr for my instructions. my desire to Serve my Country is as great as ever, but the Situation of my little family so Operates against my wishes & Lay’s me...
5To George Washington from Thomas Forrest, 2 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
In Obedience to the Orders of Generall Knox I have repair’d to the post at Carlile, and as far as time would Admitt perform’d every duty enjoin’d upon me, I should still have continued in the performance of the Order laid upon me, but that the Honorable the Board of War were pleas’d to Break up the Post. I of Course find myself in a very uneligible Situation, And as the present Commissary...
6To George Washington from Major Thomas Forrest, 10 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I trust Your Excellency is well convinc’d of (from my long service) the love I bare for my Country and my desire of Continuing in the Service of it. am Confident Your Excellency would not wish me to Serve but with honor. hope Your Excellency will excuse the liberty I take to inform You I am disapointed in my Expectation, by being Orderd to the feild with my Rank unsettled. Your Excellency’s...
7To George Washington from Thomas Forrest, 4 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I need not trouble Your Excellency with the many Reasons I have to Offer in favour of Leaving the Service, as I presume You are well acquainted with them from my Late Letters previous to this I shall only Add that necessity compells the measure at the Same time Assuring Your Excellency that when ever the necessity of my Country requires the calling forth of its distressed inhabitans there’s no...
8To George Washington from Thomas Forrest, 29 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with your several request’s of 8th October, I have inclos’d a Certificate from Capt. Porter Commdr of the Regt of my having enlisted a man in the room of Jno. Harris I discharg’d for incapacity of service. The Opinion of the Court of Enquiry held in consequence of a charge exhibited by a Major Eustace. As soon as I receiv’d Your favour of the 8 of October I made Application to...
9To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Forrest, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I feel a degree of regrett at making an application to your Excellency, which nothing but necessity would induce me to request. The length of my services are well known I presume to one of Your Observation. And did not the interesting Cares of a family whom I dearly love, call on me for my immediate Assistance & Support, I should with the highest degree of pleasure still persue Your...