11To 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...
12To George Washington from William Moore, 27 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
Our cordial acknowledgments are ever due to Your Excellency, for the great and disinterested service you have rendered our common country; but, on this occasion, we approach you with peculiar pleasure, and can only regret, that the common language of congratulation will too imperfectly convey our gratefull sense of the late eminent display of your military virtues, in the capture of a British...
13John Walshe and Others to the Commissioners, 20 November 1778 (Adams Papers)
Memorial of the Officers late of his Britanic Majesty’s Sloop Drake, Captn. Wm. Moore of the Patience Brig, Archibald Borland of the Tryal Schooner, John Douglass of the Sally Sloop, Prisoners on board the said Brig. Sheweth. That your Memorialists were brought into this Road of Brest on the 7th May last and on the 11th were put on board this Vessel and allowed the Cabin to be in, which they...
14William Moore to the Commissioners, 20 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
Your Petitioner Humbly Sheweth that being a native of the States of New Jersey one of the thirteen United States of North America—That having Come Over from the East Indies where he now has A brother who is About Removing A Considerable property from thence to Great Britain—he being entirely unaquainted with the present Situation of that Kingdom—That from the attachment your petitioner has for...
15William 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...