1To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 26 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
We have the Honor to inclose you two Resolutions of the General Assembly passed yesterday, before their Adjournment, and hope that our Parts of the Rifle and German Battalions may be incorporated without Inconvenience or Difficulty. The Merits and Services of many of the Officers, we have no Doubt, will make any Instances of ours, to place them in the same advantagious Situation as others,...
2To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 29 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Chamiers Friends are very desirous of obtaining Leave for her sending her Household Furniture and Cloathing round from New York by Water we are not satisfied of the propriety of any particular State giving a permission of the Kind though we wish, because of Mr Chamiers generous Conduct to many of our prisoners his Widow should obtain the desired Indulgence this has laid us under the...
3To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 10 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Day before Yesterday we received your two Letters of the 28th of last Month. Colo. Blaine came to Town Yesterday and we are concerting with him the Measures in our Power for procuring a Supply of Flour for the Army. We have no State Magazine and in a great Part of our Country the Crop has been very bad, however we hope that enough may be soon got for the Temporary Subsistance of the Army....
4To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 27 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
On hearing that the two Companies of Matrosses kept here and at Baltimore by this State, were directed by the Assembly to be incorporated and sent into the Continental Service, Capt. Lieut. James Smith of Brown’s Company & Capt. Lieut. Edward [Ebenezer] Finley of Dorsey’s Company, wrote to the Governor proposing their Pretensions to rise, if any Appointments were to take Place in that Company....
5To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 3 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
We have given Permission to Mrs Chamier, Widow of Daniel Chamier Esquire deceased, to bring her Household Furniture, Wearing Apparel, and other Goods mentioned in a List annexed thereto, from New York, to Hampton Road in Virginia. We are induced from Motives of Compassion, and the generous Conduct of her late Husband, to many of our Prisoners, to grant her Leave, and to solicit your...
6To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 23 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
We have had the honor of receiving your Excellency’s Letters of the 19th & 20th Ultimo and 10th of the Current Month, with their several enclosures, every of which shall be immediately laid before the Honorable General Assembly now about to meet. The Recruiting Officers in this State have not had the success We Wished, Yet they have procured a sufficient number to lessen our deficiency...
7To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 30 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Mr Robert Mundell is recommended by this Board to his Excellency General Washington, or the Commanding Officer at Elizabeth Town, for his License to go into the City of New York, for the purpose of obtaining a passage to Great Britain. ALS , DLC:GW . The Maryland Council again wrote GW on 1 April. The letter, in the hand of Gov. Thomas Sim Lee, reads: “Doctor Gustavus Brown is recommended by...
8To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 8 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
We have wrote to the Board of War requesting that Lieutenant Colo. Connolly, who was Captivated in this State, and is adjudged by Congress a Prisoner of War and Redeemable, may be exchanged for Lieutt Coll Ramsay an Officer in the Maryland Line. The extraordinary merit of this Gentleman makes us very Solicitous that this exchange should take place, and has induced us to desire your...
9To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 6 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
We have the Honor to enclose your Excellency a late Resolve of the General Assembly of Maryland. The apparent Justice of the Claims, of the Maryland Officers, in the late Rawlings’s, and German Battalion, set forth, in their Petition, induced the Assembly to enter into this Resolve. The Incorporation would obviate Inconveniencies, to this State, in supplying its Officers and Men with Cloaths...
10To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 12 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
We have this moment had the honor of receiving your Excellencys Letter of the 2d Instant also a Letter of the same date from the Honorable committee of Co-operation both of which We communicated to the General Assembly of this State now sitting. We have the honor to be with Sentiments of perfect Respect and Esteem Your Excellencys Mo. Obedt & mo. Hble servt LS , MH : Dearborn Collection; LB ,...
11To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 10 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the Resolutions of Congress; Letters from your Excellency and the Committee of Co-operation relative to Men, Money and the Supplies of Provisions, Horses and Waggons allotted to be furnished by this State, the General Assembly impressed with an adequate Idea of the Wants of the Army and the indispensible Necessity of providing in the most ample Manner for their Relief,...