1To George Washington from William Moore, 27 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the twenty third instant having been read in Council and the sentiments you express perfectly coinciding with those of the council, orders have this day been issued to stop the expeditions against the Savages accordingly and we hope the People on our frontiers will be made eacy by the intelligence which you have obliged us with—And the more So as there does not...
2To James Madison from William Moore, ca. 1 April 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 April 1792. Mentioned in John Moore to JM, 1 May 1792 . Requests that JM supply John Moore with further sums if he should require them to meet his expenses at Dickinson College.
3To Alexander Hamilton from William Moore, 16 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Doctor Walter Buchanan, who will be the bearer of this, having expressed a desire to serve his country in the line of his profession, I take the liberty to recommend him to your attention and patronage, & to assure you that his opportunities for acquiring knowledge in his profession have been such, & such is my personal knowledge of his acquirements, that I have no hesitation in recommending...
4To George Washington from William Moore, 22 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 21st of the present month has been read in Council and laid before the General Assembly for their consideration. I have the honor to be with the greatest regard Your Excellencys Most obedient servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
5To George Washington from William Moore, 9 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of Yesterday respecting the Troops of Masschusse tts has been read in Council who are of opinion, that it will not be proper for the state of Pennsylvania to open an account with Captain Van Heir by advancing money to him for recruiting, but should any of the men enlisted by the state appear to be proper for that they may be assigned to it, if Your Excellency think it proper. The...
6To George Washington from William Moore, 5 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the twenty second Ulto, has been read in Council, and agreeably to your request, shall without delay be laid before the General Assembly which stands adjourned to Monday next. During their last sitting they had under consideration a bill for raising the supplies called for by Congress, for the present year, and altho’ the sum is indeed great, the chearfulness with which that...
7To George Washington from William Moore, 7 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Trustees and Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, deeply impressed with a sense of the many important services you have rendered to America, happy in the protection which this seminary of learning, in common with others, has obtained by your exertions, and elated with the pleasing prospect of the progress of science and the establishment of peace and Independence, beg leave to...
8To George Washington from William Moore, 28 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
The inroads which have recently been made by the indians within this state, and the number of murders committed by them far within our frontiers, having become seriously important and alarming, the House of Assembly, many of whose members are well acquainted with the nature of indian wars, have taken the matter under their consideration and think it necessary to carry several expeditions into...
9To George Washington from William Moore, 25 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the fourth instant, with the Postscript of the eighth, has been read in Council, and considered with that attention, which is due to the observations of a General, whose measures have on all occasions been dictated by the purest patriotism, and therefore stand in need of no apology. After using every means in our power, we have fallen greatly short of the number of...
10William Moore to the American Commissioners: a Petition, 20 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ADS : American Philosophical Society <Paris, June 20, 1778, in the third person: He is a native of New Jersey who has just returned from the East Indies, where he and his brother have property. They were about to move it to Great Britain; now that he knows the situation there, however, he wants to transfer his own to the United States and to persuade his brother and several friends to do...