371From George Washington to Thomas Waggener, 29 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
You are Ordered forthwith to march from hence to the South-branch with your own men, and such of Capt. McKenzie’s as are at this place. The latter you are to deliver to him so soon as you arrive at this Garrison (with the orders and Instructions herewith given you for him.) And, immediately after he has taken a size and necessary roll of his company, you are to demand 25 men and an Officer,...
372From George Washington to Henry Woodward, 29 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
You are ordered, immediately upon receipt hereof, to march with your own company (which by a late regulation, has the one that was Capt. Bronaughs added to it) to the plantation of Captn Dickenson on the cow-pasture; and to pursue the following rout, vizt First you are to go up the south fork; thence to the head of the cow-pasture river, and thence down the same to Dickensons; where you are to...
373From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 29 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
I have received yours; and have paid Doct. Craik the contents of your recruiting accompt. Colo. Stephen has given so many strange orders, orders, so inconsistent with my Instructions and incompatible with his own—that it will be with great difficulty, if it is even possible, to extricate the Officers and myself from the dilemma and trouble they have occasioned. What right Colo. Stephen had to...
374From George Washington to John Stanwix, 30 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
My former letters wou’d inform you how little share I had in confining the Indians in the public Jail at this place. Mr Atkin, in His Majesty’s name, applied to me, as commanding Officer, for aid to secure these people; which I thereupon did: but not without first representing the consequences that might, and in some measure, really did happen. This step was no sooner taken, than the Cherokees...
375From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 3 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
Your favours of the 13th & 18th ultimo, with the commissions, Warrants, and money, I have received. The Indian accompts I have so often mentioned, and which your Honor says you do not understand, are expences which have accrued on account of provisions, as they have marched from place to place (for they will not eat salt-meat; but kill fresh wherever it is to be found) Liquor, unavoidably to...
376From George Washington to Joshua Lewis, 3 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
As the inhabitants in general unanimously concur in opinion, that Pattersons wou’d much better answer the end proposed by your command (vizt the protection of the Inhabitants) than your present station —You are therefore upon receipt of this, immediately to quit your present post, and proceed to Pattersons, leaving five men at Captain Catons. You are to apply to Patterson and his neighbours...
377From George Washington to Joshua Lewis, 4 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
I received yours of the 3d instant, covering a size and necessary roll of your company; which, being incomplete, is not what I wanted. Whenever you get all your company under your own command, you are to have them completed with necessaries agreeably to orders; and then to transmit me an exact size and necessary roll of the whole; and afterwards you are each month to send me a return of your...
378From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 27 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 13th by Mr Boyd, I have received. The Draughts from Lunenburg are arrived, to the number of 16; which does not replace the Soldiers that have deserted since my last. So prevalent is this infamous practice yet. The Draughts, when they were divided among the eight companies in July, completed them to 86 rank and file, and there remained over and above 40 workmen, which I...
379From George Washington to David Hall, 28 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
If you be rememberd when I dischargd my account in your Office in March last, I desird notwith standing the Post was discontinued to Winchester, that the Papers might be sent to Alexandria for me, from whence I coud get them, tho. not so regularly. I conceive, as I have [not] got any since, that you must have mistaken my meaning or directions. The Officers of the Virginia Regiment and some...