1Enclosure: Extract of a Letter, 17 September 1777 (Adams Papers)
Business still continues dull but am in Hopes of a Speedy Change as it seems by the last Accounts from Amsterdam that a War with France and England is inevitable. Lord Stormont, the English Ambassador has left the Court of France, upon meeting with an unsatisfactory Answer relative to the French’s supporting the Americans which they and the Spaniards are determined to do. And you may soon...
2Permit for Clark & Nightingale, 19 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Whereas the Necessities of the Army under my Command for Amunition are so great as to require all Possible Supplies, and Messrs Clark and Nightingale Merchants of Providence, having represented to me, that they will at their own Risque, undertake to procure from the West-Indies or elsewhere, such Quantities as may be purchased, provided they obtain my Permission for this Purpose, I do...
3Memorandum concerning Military Service of Baptists, 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
Baptist Officers that we can recollect are Capt, Joseph Spencer, Ensign Samuel French, and Ensign Thomas Bush from Orange Capt. Ambrose Dudley from Spotsylvania and Capt. Thos. Berry from Frederick. Baptists enlisted near Elijah Craig are Charles Green in Colonel Baylor’s Regiment of light Horse Wm. Tomlinson in Col. Gibson’s Regiment. Baptist’s Sons, James Dearing, Edward Dearing, John Land,...
4From George Washington to the New York Committee of Safety, 30 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
I perceive by the tener of your favour of yesterday that my Letter of the 25th has given Umbrage, which I am sorry for as it was not most distantly, in my Ideas to give any. Three things led me to suspect that the New York Battalions were not upon the same establishment of the other Continental Troops—Current report—an implied exception in the order for detaching Six more Battalions to...
5IV. Unknown to Francis Van Dyke, c. 26 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Eight or teen Ships of war the Largist twenty four guns. a Rainforce ment of three thousand men gon to Cannada to keepe the inhabbatance undur. Very few trups in the City and adjasint placis not more then Six & Sevin thousand[,] betwise three & four thousand fit for Duty. The Channal in the E[a]st rivur Block up[.] 15 Ships gon downe the Narrows redy for Sinkkng[.] 15 more Redy for the Same...
6Counterfeit Bill of Health for Ships Clearing the Port of Norfolk, [1779] (Jefferson Papers)
[Text reproduced in illustration section following page 254.] Printed form ( DLC : Broadsides Collection), with TJ’s notation at head of text: “A forgery” and, on verso, “Bill of health. replete with nonsense and falshood drawn by some tory.” No satisfactory explanation of this document can at present be given, though several authorities on maritime and medical history have been consulted and...
7To George Washington from an Unknown Person, 20 December 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from an Unknown Person, 20 Dec. 1777. In his letter to an Unknown Person of 6 Jan. 1778, GW writes that “I recd yours of the 20th decemr.”
8To George Washington from the New York Committee of Safety, 10 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
We received from Mr Tilghman an Account of the enemies Ships having gone up the River—and have dispatched Expresses to General Schuyler and General Clinton agreable to your Excellency’s request. Nothing can be more alarming than the present situation of our State; We are daily getting, the most authentic Intelligence of bodies of Men enlisted and armed in order to assist the Enemy⟨.⟩ We much...
9To Thomas Jefferson from ——, 26 September [1780] (Jefferson Papers)
Meeting with an immediate conveyance to Richmond by the bearer, I do myself the pleasure to give you the following agreeable intelligence. This morning on my return from the northward, I was overtaken by a Gentleman who left Philadelphia so late as last Saturday (the 23d instant) and had Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Gazette, in which I read extract of a letter from Bevernwick of the 18th instant,...
10Instructions to Brigadier General John Sullivan, 7 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Orders for Brigadier General Sullivan Given at Head Quarters November 7th 1775 You are to proceed Immediately to Portsmouth in New Hampshire and Compleat the works already began to Secure that and the other Towns at the Entrance of Piscataway River from any Attacks by Ships of War —for this purpose you are to fix Ships and fire Rafts in such places as you find most Convenient to prevent the...