61To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 27 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have Such intelligence as makes it more than probable the Enemy look this way, tho’ not having had it from my most authentic sources I can not speak of it positively. I wish They may Attempt it with all my heart, Contest becomes requisite some where, the carolina Debt should be paid off, and West Point seems to be a good Bank to Draw upon, may it answer their Draughts I pray God I have...
62To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, 23 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letters not found: from Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, 23 Oct. 1779. GW wrote Howe on 24 Oct. : “Both your favors of yesterday came to hand last Evening.”
63To George Washington from Robert Howe, 27 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Troops arrived at this place last night and commenced their march at three this morning—The Bad Roads (the mountains being a Part) the Heat of the weather & want of shoes made the men appear to be much fatigued. our Provisions will be out at noon this day and from what information I can get we shall continue to out go it unless we make a halt should this be the case I shall probably halt...
64To George Washington from Robert Howe, 15 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 15 Sept. 1779. On 18 Sept., GW wrote Howe: “I recd yours of the 12th 14th and 15th.”
65To George Washington from Robert Howe, 25 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
Previous to your Excellency’s favour this moment receiv’d the troops were under orders to march for Tomorrow . some papers which ought to have been sent me were omitted to be transmitted, & I sh’d not get them until saturday by Mr Jackson. The subsistance money for the next month was requisit ioned to the movement of the officers, they receiv’d it last Evening & requir’d this day to settle...
66To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 7 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I was Yesterday honour’d with your Excellency’s favour of the 5th Instt, and shall in Obedience to your request proceed to my command in a day or two, or Earlier, should you think it requisite, tho’ Some Business very consequential to me requires that time, if it can be Spared me without Injury to service. It has been very lately Suggested to me by one of my friends that your Excellency meant...
67To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 17 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was honoured with your Excellency’s favour of yesterday and am obliged to you for the pleasing information of the insurgents having moved on to Trenton and given up the british emissaries, from which good effects must certainly derive. how happy Should I be, My Dear General, if Congress can fall upon measures to accommodate this unfortunate affair with dignity to them Selves and without...
68To George Washington from Robert Howe, 14 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been hon’d by your Excellency’s favour and am much obliged by the communication & indulgence that it conveys. I hope very soon to pay my Respects to you at Rocky Hill, which honour I should have long since done my self had I not thought it improper to leave this place until the matters committed to my charge were intirely clos’d. I have the honour to be with the greatest Respect Sir...
69To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 6 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Intelligence making it probable that a party of the Enemy might be surprized within their lines, thirty five of Moylans and ten of Sheldons Light Dragoons, with forty Infantry and about fifty Militia Horses were appointed for this command, with Orders to carry the enterprize into execution, if on approaching the Enemy it was found practicable—Lieutenant Colonel White of Moylans conducted this...
70To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 25-26 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been endeavouring ever Since I arrived here, I.E. about one o’clock, to learn with Certainty the Motions and designs of the Insurgents, They were assembled at Chatam, and from thence are Said to be returning to their huts, where, they mean to Negotiate, for tho’ they profess to be inclined to open a treaty, they have, by no Means, adopted those Subordinate Ideas which alone can give...
71To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 5 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Favors of the 1st & 3d are before me—Notwithstanding the Hand Bill of Mr Rivington I think there are Reasons to doubt the Authenticity of what he says relative to the Reduction of Charles Town—as Informations from New York obtain’d from the Tories left it safe on the 10th of May, & not apparently in Danger of speedy Subduction. In Consequence of the Report of Sir Harry...
72To George Washington from Robert Howe, 7 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Troops encamped within Two Miles of this Town on Saturday where They remain still, for having procured Tents for Them. They are permitted to hold little or no Communication with the Town. Immediately on my Arrival I took Measures to carry into Execution the Intentions of Congress to the utmost Extent—but I have it to regret that where so much ought to be known so Little Means of...
73To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 7 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I inclose your Excellency the Copy of a letter I just received from colonel John Mead of Militia at Horseneck, and also one of Governor Trumbulls to him. Colo. Meads apprehensions by consulting the date they took rise from, seem to have been impressed by those movements of the Enemy, when the thaw prevented their Enterpr[i]se. The Expectation of support from this Quarter upon very trifling...
74To George Washington from Robert Howe, 11 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 11 Aug. 1779. On 12 Aug., GW wrote Howe acknowledging “your letter of the 11th inst.”
75To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 6 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
The taking of —— agent has been an ugly accident, and to liberate him without Exciting suspicion requires management he is fearful that the stale trick of letting him Escape will not answer, Especially as he is so lately out of the small Pox and is so very Weak that he can not well be suppos’d to be possessed of agility Enough to make a hasty retreat and the least doubtful circumstance would...
76To George Washington from Robert Howe, 8 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
Late last night my unabating Efforts obtain’d me a sum of money which tho’ not perhaps quite Equal to my Expences will Enable me to Leave Town (I hope) without discredit. Some part of this Cash has advanced me by a friend I accidentally met with upon Generous Terms, but the Residue (and that the greater Part) I have been moved to Accept upon hard Condition of indebting myself one hundred...
77To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 14 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment Honour’d with your Excellency’s letter, of the 12th Instant, I shall endeavour to be at Morris Town on the day mentioned—Should the Arrangments I am to make in this Quarter, which my private letter will set forth, appear to your Excellency of such a Nature, as to render my attendance this way more important, than any service I can do by sitting upon the Court Martial, you will...
78To George Washington from Robert Howe, 21 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having been reduced to a situation very disagreeable to me indeed by having an action brought against me for a debt which ought long since to have been paid by the publick, & which was only suspended being carried into Court by my pledging my honour to settle it before I went out of Town, I have been and am unable to leave this place or I had long since paid my Respects your Excellency. I...
79To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 27 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Hay just gave me a call in his way to Morris Town, and has occasion to be so much in haste, that it gives me no time to Write fully—I have such malancholy accounts from Commissaries of every sort, respecting supplies, that I should wound your Excellency’s peace were I to particularise, without answreing any good end, as I am certain you are exerting your self to the utmost to Guard...
80To George Washington from Robert Howe, 1 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The inclos’d Resolution of Congress has been just now handed me & the Express sets off in a moment, fuller Instructions are to be given me—my situation appears to me to be critical much seems to me Expected from me & whatever I do may on one side be thought too little, on the other too much, for unhappily Congress & the state of Pennsylvania (at least the Executive of it) differ widely in...
81To George Washington from Robert Howe, 5 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Returns of the Provision Endowments of each Work would have been sent your Excellency yesterday had I not hoped for the Honor of seeing you—The Quantity is too small, but our Magazine will not admit of a farther supply at present—The Moment it can be done, it shall. I have examin’d the Magazine & the Ammunition is much expos’d to Injury—I am sorry to add that our Work is at a...
82To George Washington from Robert Howe, 4 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letters not found : from Robert Howe, 4 Sept. 1779. On 5 Sept., GW wrote Howe: “I have this morning been favd with your private and public letters of yesterday.”
83To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 22 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
The arriving of Graves & yet his not being at New York is at length accounted for—He was joined by Arbuthnot with one Ship of the Line & two Fifty’s, & sail’d eastward —The Object is by some said to be the Interception of the 2d Division of the F⟨renc⟩h Fleet —by others, to convoy to York the Cork victualling Fleet, about which they seem to be very anxious —a third Set suppose, that the...
84To George Washington from Robert Howe, 4 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 4 Oct. 1779. On 6 Oct., GW wrote Howe: “I have been duly favored with your two letters of the 4th & 5th inst.”
85To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, 19 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, 19 Nov. 1779 . GW wrote Howe on 20 Nov. : “I have received your letter by Colo. Moylan of yesterdays date.”
86To George Washington from Robert Howe, 19 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am just now honour’d with your Excellency’s favour of the 13th & shall take the measures Consequent thereto. As I inclose this to the President of Congress to be forwarded by any conveyance which may offer, I delay writing more fully until tomorrows Post as that Letter may arrive as soon if not sooner than this With the greatest Respect I am Dear sir your Excellency’s most Obt Servt DLC :...
87To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 14 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
If it is convenient I should be glad to have a part of the Corps of Executioners attached to this Department, those finishers of the Law having become immediately & absolutely necessary to us, If your Excellency thinks it proper please hasten to us some of these People without delay. The Enemy have several times lately been acting against Colo. Millen, with both Horse and Infantry, and he has...
88To George Washington from Robert Howe, 13 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 13 Aug. 1779. On 14 Aug., GW wrote Howe: “I have to acknowlege your favor of yesterday.”
89To George Washington from Robert Howe, 1 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
If the ultimate End arriv’d at by the Enemy in sending out Fishing Parties from our Prisoners in New-york, & purchasing Wood within our Lines, was really intended for the Benefit of the Prisoners alone, The Measure ought to meet our heartiest Approbation—But as under this Aspect they may by picking out proper Implements from among our People, continue that Transient Intercourse already found...
90To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 10 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have some Time since received Accounts, from various Agents, that Troops of the Enemy in great Force were embark’d, & embarking for South-Carolina—That their Horse which were canton’d out, were all call’d in to New York—that great Quantities of Forage, & a great Number of Waggons were put on Board their Vessels, that all Vessels fit for the Service of their Government were taken up, & all...