31Enclosure: Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick to Major General William Heath, 24 October 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
I think it my Duty as a Man of Candour & Generosity, to inform You, that for your Information in our Interview of yesterday, I had every reason to convince Me, That Mr. Tripp’s Information, so distressing to Me, & in which my warm & pointed letter of the 21st. to You, was founded; was communicated to me in a very disingenuous Manner & Air & that he mentioned to Me more, than was contained in...
32To George Washington from Richard Varick, 3 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I esteem it my duty to inform Your Excellency, That Yesterday the XVth Volume of Military Letters was filled & contains the Letters to Novr 1782 included, which remains to be indexed & to receive its Marginal References to the Copies; So that some Time next Week I shall be ready to deliver the following Volumes. Vizt The Congress Letters A. to Decr 1782. 6 Volumes Military B. to Novr 1782. 15....
33To John Jay from Richard Varick, 2 March 1801 (Jay Papers)
I had the Honor of receiving your Excellency’s favor of the 21 st . Feby. on the 27 th . At the first Meeting of the Common Council I will communicate to them the Subject of that Letter & without Delay inform Your Excellency of the Result: By the British Packet in 35 Days Passage We have News till after the Middle of January, from which it appears that the Austrians have been so much wasted as...
34To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick, 26 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor of acknowledging the Receipt of Your Excellency’s Favor of the 15th instant, conveying to me Your Orders for my Removal to Head Quarters. I am sorry to find That Lt Colo. Bradford has resolved to quit his Office, but shall in Obedience to Your Excellency’s Orders, repair to New Jersey as soon [as] possible, to releive him, in Confidence that the Honorable the Congress will be...
35To Alexander Hamilton from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick, [23 October 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Robinson’s House, Highlands, New York, October 23, 1780. On October 24, 1780, Varick wrote to Hamilton: “I wrote You on the … 23rd.” Letter not found. ] Printed in this volume.
36To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Varick, 29 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to introduce to You the Bearer Doctor William McIntosh who has been regularly bred a Physician & has had Charge of our City Alms House for some Years. His Character is fair & Conduct not only unexceptionable but Meritorious. He wishes to be appointed a Surgeons Mate to one of the Regiments of the United States. I have no Doubt that if he shall obtain Your Countenanc e & procure an...
37To George Washington from Richard Varick, 25 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
When I had the Honor of conferring with Your Excellency last, on the Subject of the confidential & pleasingly arduous Office tendered to me & heard Your Excellency’s Answers to my Objections, I put my Acceptance of the honorable Charge, on the Condition of procuring proper Persons under me for executing the Business in such Manner as to do ample Justice to the Public & not to disappoint Your...
38To George Washington from Richard Varick, 14 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with Your Excellency’s Favour of the 31st December on the 10th inst. As I mean to have an Index in each Volume, as well as a General one to each Set of A.B. & C., when completed, I shall commence the former when Paper arrives & hereafter draft them, as fast as the respective Volumes are filled; the latter, must be left undone till the whole Business is executed. It will be...
39To George Washington from Richard Varick, 12 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
In my Letter of the 10th I omitted to inform Your Excellency that the Congress Letters are recorded to the 31st Octr 1779. in 4 Volumes complete; The military Letters from 25th June 1775. to the 20th Jany 1778 in 4 Vols complete & from the 1st Jany to the 10th Septr 1779. in two other Volumes complete; And the Civil Letters to Augt 31st 1779. in two Volumes and Part of a third. The Letters to...
40To George Washington from Captain Richard Varick, 23 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to General Schuyler’s Directions to me, I send down (under Charge of Lieut. Van Waggenen) Lieut. Schalch & Dr Gill of the Royal Artillery made Prisoners at St Johns, to be disposed of as Your Excellency shall be pleased to direct. They are on their Parole. I also send down Mr John MacDonell one of the Scotch Gentlemen made Prisoner at Johns Town, Tryon County, in January last, He has...
41To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick, 24 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with Your Excellency’s Favor of the 21st by Colo. Lamb. I am sorry to find that such cogent & just reasons render it improper, & have influenced Your Excellency to direct, that the Enquiry into my Conduct be extended no further back, than during my unhappy Connexion with the guilty Arnold. A friendly Opinion to that Effect from Colo: Harrison, had in some Measure...
42To George Washington from Richard Varick, 4 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have just compleated the Copies of the first Drafts of all the Indexes of the last seven Volumes to the 1st Octr last & have so drafted them that the remainder of the Letters now on Hand & which may be written before a Close of Your Excellency’s Military Career, can conveniently be added. When the Volumes are all compleated the Indexes are to be transcribed (by such Person as Your Excellency...
43From Richard Varick to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to His Excellency’s Commands I have copied & added some Things to his Instructions to Me, to be compleated together with my Appointment & returned to Me. I accepted on the 25th May, as per my Letter & signed the 7th June. The Terms the Genl proposed were to be on an equal footing with Yourself with Respect to pay & subsistence Money. I wish this to specified, as also that the Pay to...
44To George Washington from Richard Varick, 18 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the third of November I was favored with Colo. Trumbull’s Letter of the 10th & 12th Octr covering my Appointment & Your Excellency’s Instructions of the 25th May last to me, And on the 4th instant I was honored with Your Excellency’s favor of the 15th ulto from Mount Vernon. I am happy to find, that the general Tenor of my Conduct in the Discharge of the Duties of my Office, have hitherto...
45To George Washington from Richard Varick, 15 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am again pressed by the Writers under my Direction to make Application to Your Excellency for pay on Account of their Services; There remains due to them on this Day, the following Sums Vizt To Mr Zacharias Sickels 6 1/2 Mos. 325 Dolls. To Mr George Taylor Junr 5 1/2 Mos. 275 do To Mr Oliver Glean —(dischd) 2 Mos. 25 days 145 do 745
46To George Washington from Captain Richard Varick, 4 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Albany, 4 June 1776 . “I send down the Bearer Capt. Godwin of the Royal Artillery made Prisoner at Chambly: He has a Permit on Parole to join the Prisoners of that Garrison now in Trenton or some Other Part of New Jersey & is directed to wait on your Excellency for Directions in his Rout to New Jersey.” ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , NN : Schuyler Papers. Capt. William Godwin of the 4th Battalion of the...
47To John Jay from Richard Varick, 13 July 1801 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor to inform You That the Common Council of this City have this day Resolved that You be requested to permit Your Portrait to be taken and placed in the City Hall as a public Testimonial of their great personal Respect and high Regard for Your distinguished Patriotism and eminent public Services. They have done me the Honor of being the Organ of this, to me, pleasing...
48To John Jay from Richard Varick, 15 November 1800 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose to Your Excellency a Report of the Convictions at the late special Sessions for this City which ended Yesterday.— I have said Nothing ab t . the Proofs as they were full. In all the Other Cases the Jury acquitted & carried their Lenity too far on this sense & in Reducing to petit Larceny some Cases of Grand Larceny. It was certainly erring on the Humane side. I wish...
49To John Jay from Richard Varick, 10 January 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor of once more troubling Your Excellency & perhaps calling a Moments Attention from more important public Concerns, to inform You of a Measure proposed to the Common Council of this City this Day by the Recorder & myself & by them unanimously adopted, to wit, We have discovered by Experience that the public Business of the Sessions could not be dispatched in four Terms only of 7...
50To George Washington from Richard Varick, 18 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday, on my Return from Goshen, I was honored with Your Excellencys Orders of the 6th, by Letter from Colo. Walker covering the Letters subsequent to those between the 1st & 23d Octr, (which I was informed were stolen out of the Post Office at Princeton) with Directions for their immediate Completion, And on this day I received further Orders of the 17th thro Colo. Humphrys, to send to...
51To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Varick, 25 February 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 25, 1799. On February 26, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Varick : “I last night received your letter dated Yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
52To George Washington from Captain Richard Varick, 14 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honor to inclose Copy of a Letter from General Arnold to General Gates transmitted by the Latter from Tyonderoga & this Moment received in General Schuyler’s absence who is now on his Way to Saratoga. The Lead arrived at Fort George on Saturday last and was immediately forwarded —The powder left this on the same Day and is probably now at or near Fort George, where it will not...
53To George Washington from Richard Varick, 1 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I think it my Duty to inform Your Excellency, That since your Departure for Virginia and my Return from Dobbs’s Ferry to this Place, three Writers have been continually employed, in transcribing the Public Letters, on the Plan proposed by your Excellency. I found it necessary, for distinguishing the Sets of Volumes, to nominate them in the Order of the Alphabet, Of which I requested your...
54To George Washington from Captain Richard Varick, 3 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to General Schuylers Orders I do myself the Honor to Inclose you three Lists of Articles wanted for the Public Service, on Lake Chamblain, contained in the Paper marked A and do also inclose Your Excellency another Paper marked B containing a true Account of such Articles of these Lists as cannot possibly be procured at this Place. An Express is sent from this Place to Connecticut,...
55To George Washington from Richard Varick, 20 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honor of inclosing to Your Excellency all the Copies which I recd at Rocky Hill & which accompanied Your Excellencys favor of the 2nd Octr, which are recorded and wish them safe to Hand. The Governor has so far recovered as to be able to ride to Kingston where he at present is. I beg my Respects to Mrs Washington & the Gentlemen of the family And am with every Sentiment of...
56To John Jay from Richard Varick, 24 September 1798 (Jay Papers)
On Saturday Evening last (by post) I had the honor of receiving your Excellency’s favor of the 17 th .— It is true that the Attorney General was in Custody in his own House at the suit of Brockholst Livingston, who while in Town promised to forbear & when gone the Ca. Sa was issued.— The Business was adjusted last Monday & the Attorney General set off Express to Delaware Oyer & Terminer. An...
57To George Washington from Richard Varick, 28 August 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Varick, 28 August. GW wrote Varick on 26 Sept. : “Mr Taylor brought me your favor of the 28th Ulto.”
58To George Washington from Richard Varick, 19 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor of informing Your Excellency that I arrived at this Place on Saturday the 7th after having been kept some Days in Suspense at New Windsor, by the Quarter Masters not furnishing a Craft to transport my Charge hither occasioned by the then Embarkation of the Artillery & Stores. By numbering and digesting into Classes the Corpus of Letters & Orders in 1775 & 1776. I found that...