27301From George Washington to Charles Pettit, 24 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
Since writing you last, I have very luckily found the Books I had supposed to be lost. I shall not therefore want those which I desired you to procure, as the Work however may possibly be begun, you will be pleased to receive & forward to me so many as may be already finished, & stop the Execution of the Remainder as soon as may be. I am Sir Your most obedient Servant DLC : Papers of George...
27302[Diary entry: 26 November 1797] (Washington Papers)
26. Wind fresh from No. West all day & clear. Mr. Russel went away after breakfast. Mr. Lear came to dinner & Mr. & Mrs. Law at Night.
27303[Diary entry: 2 March 1787] (Washington Papers)
[Friday] 2d. Mercury at 31 in the Morning—50 at Noon and 44 at Night. Morning very clear and pleasant—ground a little frozen. About 8 Oclock the wind sprung up at No. Wt. & blew rather cool. Before Noon it died away and became warm and pleast.—after which it began to lower and towards Night looked very hazy & portentious of a change. Rid into the Neck with my Compass to ascertain if...
27304General Orders, 8 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Horses belonging to the Artillery are not to be used under any pretence whatsoever, but the purpose for which they are designed; but are to be held in such readiness, as to move in fifteen Minutes if required. Any officer or soldier, using them contrary to this order will be severely punished—The commanding Officer of Artillery is to take care that their horses Shoes are kept in good...
27305[Diary entry: 16 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
16. Breakfasted at Chester & Dined at Govr. Penns in Philadelphia. Richard Penn (1735–1811) was the second son of Richard and Hannah Lardner Penn and the grandson of William Penn. He was appointed lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in 1771 to replace his brother John, who returned to England. Richard served until Aug. 1773, when John returned to America and reclaimed the lieutenant...
27306From George Washington to John Hanson, 1 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed is Copy of a Letter which I have this day received from Sir Guy Carleton—the only one I have had from him since the 12th of Septemr—I do myself the Honor to transmit it to Congress immediately. With great Respect & Esteem I have the Honor to be sir Your Excellency’s Most Obedt Servant DNA : Item 152, Letters from George Washington, PCC—Papers of the Continental Congress.
27307From George Washington to Charles Dick, 20 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby Ordered to wait at this place until my return from Fort-Cumberland, that you may be ready to receive the necessary Orders. As the Recruits will march up at my return, which will be the 30th, if you think proper, you may order the Cattle up with that Escort. There is a man arrived from Governour Dobbs, with one hundred and eighteen Cattle; him I have engaged to wait your arrival,...
27308From George Washington to Henry Clinton, 16 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
By the inclosed Act of Congress of the 3d instant you will perceive, I am directed to demand the immediate return of Lieutenant General Burgoyne and all other British or German Officers prisoners of War now absent from America on their Paroles. As the late exchanges have released all those who were under this description except Lt General Burgoyne, I am only to require his return agreable to...
27309From George Washington to James McHenry, 30 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have lately received information, which, in my opinion, merits attention. It is that the brawlers against Governmental measures in some of the most discontented parts of this state, have, all of a sudden, become silent; and, it is added, are very desirous of obtaining Commissions in the Army, about to be raised. This information did not fail to leave an impression upon my mind at the time I...
27310From George Washington to Alexander McDougall, 11 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with your Letter of the 2nd Inst. and am much obliged by your congratulations on the success of the Campaign. The Papers respecting the case of Doctor Ledyard have duly been laid before the Secretary at War, from whom the following Answer has been received. "I have no doubt but Doctor Ledyard is a Gentleman of Merit, and that with other Men of virtue he has suffered in the...
27311[Diary entry: 13 July 1798] (Washington Papers)
13. Lowering in the Morng. No Wind Mer. 70. Clear afternoon Mer. 66.
27312[Diary entry: 15 October 1794] (Washington Papers)
15th. Left Bath by seven oclock; & crossing the Cacapohon Mountain, & the Potomack River by a very rough road, we breakfasted at one Goldens—distant about 7 Miles—Bated our horses at a very indifferent place abt. 13 Miles further on—and lodged at the Old Town 33 or 34 Miles. This distance from the extreme badness of the Road, more than half of it being very hilly, & great part of it Stoney,...
27313[Diary entry: 3 March 1774] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear with the Wind at No. West but neither Cold nor hard.
27314George Washington to John Jay, [22–23] April 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] April [ 22–23 ] 1779 . States that unless the quartermaster general immediately receives the money necessary for proposed Indian expedition, the expedition will have to be abandoned. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The draft was originally dated April 22. This date was then crossed out and April 23 substituted.
27315From George Washington to Brigadier General James Potter, 3 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of this date. Except our Army was upon the other side of Schuylkill it would be impossible to take and keep possession of the Enemy’s Works upon Province Island—The Virginia Militia who will remain with you for a few days, were to have left their Arms at Lancaster, but, you may now take as many from them as will furnish yours that want, before they leave you. The State of...
27316General Orders, 2 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
27317[Diary entry: 25 February 1767] (Washington Papers)
25. Hard frost. Clear & not very cold. Wind at No. West—not high.
27318General Orders, 24 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major Lansdale B.Q.M. Jersey Brigade It is recommended to the troops to make regimental Gardens for the purpose of raising Greens & vegetables for their own use—And in order to collect a sufficient quantity of seeds, Commanding officers of regiments will give passes to as many trusty soldiers as they may Judge necessary to go into the Country, and be absent, not exceeding...
27319From George Washington to Thomas Gist, 26 April 1758 (Washington Papers)
To Mr Thomas Gist—Cadet [Fort Loudoun, 26 April 1758 ] Sir. You are forthwith to set out for Williamsburgh, and make all possible dispatch to that place. When you arrive there, wait on the Honble the President with my letter, and these Instructions: and take his directions what further to do. If you should be charged with a sum of money to bring to this place, take particular care of it, and...
27320From George Washington to James Clinton, 9 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am favour’d with yours of the 6th—In consequence of my letter of the same date, the 2d Regt will be detain’d at Albany ’till further orders—Genl Schuyler is building a number of Flat boats for the Public—so many of them as are ready when that Regt is order’d down may be man’d by the Troops, and the Boats loaded with plank or such other materials as may be procur’d. Orders have been already...
27321General Orders, 18 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
27322From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr, 27 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby appointed Lieut. Colo. to a Regiment in the Continental Service to be commanded by Colo. Malcolm. This Regiment is composed of eight independant Companies, most of wh. are already raised. As Colo. Malcolm goes directly up to draw the Regiment together, I desire you will join him and give every necessary Assistance towards forming the Corps. I have given particular Instructions...
27323[Diary entry: 23 September 1768] (Washington Papers)
23. Finishd Sowing the third Cut of Wheat in the Neck.
27324From George Washington to Major General Johann Kalb, 23 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowlege your favor of yesterday written at half past 11 at night. Whatever may be the real object of the enemy, I make no doubt but your vigilance and precautions, should their operations be directed against you, or this way, will obviate any misfortune which they might intend. As an alarm can be conveyed to this ground, in the shortest space of time by the firing of the alarm...
27325[Diary entry: 18 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. Dined at Doctr. Rush’s and Spent the Evening at the New Tavern. Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), the best-known American physician and medical writer of his day, was a professor of chemistry at the College of Philadelphia and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Rush was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776. In April 1777 he became surgeon general of the hospital for the Middle...
27326From George Washington to Lewis Pintard, 14 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
Long before this letter can have reached you, the Cost of the first Wine had from Mr Searle must, no doubt, have been paid to you—before the receipt of it, I saw Mr Parker who told me the Money had, for sometime, been lodged in the hands of a Gentleman (whose name I do not now recollect) in New York, and notice given of it to the Person at whose House you usually lodge in the City. I have...
27327George Washington to Major General Alexander McDougall, 28 June 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] June 28, 1779 . Discusses problem of rations. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
27328From George Washington to George Clinton, 7 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I herewith transmit to your Excellency several papers, with a letter from Elias Boudinot Esqe relative to the case of a certain Hallet who is said to be an inhabitant of Long Island —As I do not consider him cognizable by the military laws, but more properly falling under the jurisdiction of the State to which he belongs, I have therefore sent him under guard to your Excellency. I also inclose...
27329From George Washington to William Darke, 9 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia August 9. 1791. I have received your letter of the 24 ult. —Regarding its contents, altho’ relating to objects of public import, as private communication, I shall reply to, and remark upon them, with that candor which my personal esteem, and my public wishes strongly enjoin. I need not tell you that my regret is seriously excited by learning that any cause of...
27330[Diary entry: 4 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
4. Close Rain all day with the Wind chiefly at No. East—but afterwards shifting to No. West & clearing.
27331General Orders, 3 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
At the General Court Martial whereof Colo. Starr was President —Moses Carson formerly a Captain in the Continental Army was tried for “Deserting to the enemy and carrying off a number of men with him in the year 1777.” found guilty of the 1st part of the charge and sentenced to be drumed thro’ the army, in the vicinity of West-Point, with a halter round his neck and a label pinned on his...
27332From George Washington to Lafayette, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
At the earnest request of Mr Jorre I make known to you, that he came over to this Country with an idea of obtaining some appointment under our Government; but he now finds that idea to have been false; for propriety, as you, my dear Sir, well know, would not admit of a foreigners being prefered to Office before one of our own Countrymen, who suffered so much to effect the revolution, and who...
27333General Orders, 4 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
As fast as the men go into Hutts the tents are to be returned immediately to the Quarter-Master General: The Commanding Officers of Regiments will see this performed—The Brigadiers are also to pay proper attention to it; and the Officers of Companies will be answerable for those which have been delivered to them. The Commander in Chief is thus pointed because he is informed that some tents...
27334From George Washington to William Pearce, 27 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 23d and the reports, have been duly received. The ideas which I expressed in one of my late letters, respecting the cultivation (in Corn) of the lots in the Mill swamp, were not intended to forbid the practice in all parts where it was necessary, to cleanse & prepare them for grass; but to let you see that Corn was not so much an object with me, as meadow; and that I did not...
27335From George Washington to James Wood, 18 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your favor of the 6th, and thank you gratefully for your kind recollection of my interest in the survey made for Mullen on Timber ridge in Hampshire county. The enclosed (left open for your perusal) is a request that Colonel Heth, as Collector, would furnish you with the means for securing the land when the term, limited by law shall occlude Mullen, or any person...
27336[Diary entry: 9 January 1773] (Washington Papers)
9. Very white frost & ground pretty hard froze. Wind after 10 Oclock fresh from the Southward.
27337From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 17 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor of yours of the 14th with its enclosures. I had some time before received the account of the evacuation of Ticonderoga, but upon what Ground, or for what reasons, this sudden resolution was taken, I have not yet learnt—I have not heard from General Schuyler since the 10th—He was then at Fort Edward, and expected that General St Clair who was at Bedford with the Troops that he...
27338From George Washington to John Hancock, 5 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
As nothing but necessity obliged me to retire before the Enemy, & leave so much of the Jerseys unprotected, I conceive it my duty, and it corresponds with my Inclination to make head against them so soon as there shall be the least probability of doing it with propriety. That the Country might in some measure be covered, I left two Brigades consisting of the Five Virginia Regiments and that of...
27339To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 16 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States” is now before me for consideration. The constitutionality of it is objected to. It therefore becomes more particularly my duty to examine the ground on wch. the objection is built. As a mean of investigation I have called upon the Attorney General of the United States in whose line it seemed more particularly to be for...
27340General Orders, 6 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . GW’s expenses for this day included 16s. “To cash paid Servant for Bringing Cheese from Mrs. Tabors” (Revolutionary War Household Expenses, 1776–1780, DLC:GW , ser. 5, vol. 28).
27341[Diary entry: 16 December 1797] (Washington Papers)
16. Wind at No. Wt. but not very hard or cold. Mer. 26 a 40.
27342From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 10 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your last favour, by the purport of it (having no date) as also one or two others at different periods, have come safe to my hands; and went unacknowledged from the hurried, and distracted state of our Affairs, & from the knowledge I had, that every occurrance worth noticing came regularly to you in my Letters to Congress. I thank you Sir for the mention of Colo. Heartly, and finding upon...
27343[Diary entry: 6 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
6. Calm & warm all day. Very Smoaky as it hath been for a Month pass’d.
27344From George Washington to Colonel Stephen Moylan, 28 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you upon the 24th and desired you to come forward with all the Horse of your own, Blands and Baylors Regiments that were fit for Service. But as every appearance now indicates a move of the Enemy thro’ Jersey, I would wish you to continue there untill their intentions are more clearly and fully known. If you can subsist the Men and Horses at and near Trenton, they will be more...
27345From George Washington to a Secret Committee of the New York Convention, 15 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
⟨In answer to your favour of Yesterday, I beg⟩ Leave to acquaint you that I ⟨have consulted with such of the Gene⟩ral Officers as could be easily ⟨convened,⟩ with ⟨respect to the prisoner⟩s confined in the Gaol of this City—We are all of Opi⟨nion that to⟩ enlarge them or permit their Continuance here is equ⟨ally dangerou⟩s. No other Course therefore remains than to send them ⟨to s⟩ome Place...
27346From George Washington to William Carmichael, 10 June 1785 (Washington Papers)
It is with grateful pleasure I sit down to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 25th of March covering a triplicate of your letter of the 3d of December (which is the first that has been received), & a copy of the Count of Florida Blanca’s note to you. I feel myself under singular obligation to you sir, as the mean of procuring two Jacks of the first race, to be sent me; but my...
27347From George Washington to George Clinton, 25 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since my Letter of the 23d & 24th which accompanies this—I have also directed the Issuing Commissary Colo. Stewart, to forward a Hundred Barrells of flour from hence without delay to New Windsor to be conveyed from thence by Colo. Hay to Albany to Colo. Vanschaick, as a further supply for Fort Schuyler. I hope it will not be long before it arrives at Albany, from whence I have requested Colo....
27348From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 27 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your private letter of the 21st instant, did not reach me until yesterday. A late letter of mine to you, will have fixed the Directorship of the Mint upon Mr Boudinot —The application therefore of Majr Jackson, however fit he may have been for the Office, is too late. But besides the reasons assigned in your letter against such an appointment at present, I should have preferred a character...
27349From George Washington to Major General Lafayette, 30 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago I wrote you a letter in much haste. the cause a sudden notification of Monsr Gerards having changed the place of his embarkation from Boston (as was expected) to Philadelphia, & the hurry Monsir de la Colombe was in to reach the latter before the Minister should have left it. Since that, I have been honourd with the company of the Chevr de la Luzerne, & by him was favourd with...
27350[Diary entry: 17 March 1748] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 17th. Rain’d till Ten oClock & then clearing we reached as far as Major Campbells one of there Burgesses about 25 Miles from Town. Nothing Remarkable this day nor Night but that we had a Tolerable good Bed [to] lay on. Andrew Campbell, who lived northwest of Winchester, was one of Frederick County’s most prominent residents. He served as one of the county’s first justices, as a member...