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You will post your Troops at Yearleys ferry or some where near it—find out the fording place there and have a Redoubt thrown up immediatly[.] You and General Ewing must divide the Ground between Trenton falls and your post and establish the Proper Guards and Patrols to watch the Enemy motions, You will Spare no pains or Expence to Obtain inteligence—all promises made or monies Advanced shall...
Genl Putnam communicated to me last Night the disagreeable Account that Lt. Colo. Preston’s party of Militia from Cumberland County in this State has deserted him; This practise in the Militia so generally prevails, that unless some effectual Check can be speedily applied I apprehend the most fatal Consequences. The Mischief is not confined to the Desertion alone, They stay ’till they are...
Letter not found: to Brig. Gen. Philemon Dickinson, 5 Feb. 1777. In his letter to GW of 9 Feb. , Dickinson says that “your Excellency’s of the 5th Inst. did not come to hand till last Evening.”
Letter not found: to Brig. Gen. Philemon Dickinson, 10 Feb. 1777. GW’s aidede-camp Robert Hanson Harrison wrote a docket on the cover of Dickinson’s letter to GW of 9 Feb. that reads in part “Ansd 10th.”
I am informed by a line from Gl Maxwell that Colo. Cook’s & Conduits Regts of Militia from this County are to go home in a few days. How they are to be replaced I can’t tell—I have wrote to Gl Maxwell to call in the Essex Mila, but I fear it can’t be done without yr Interposition—There remains but little doubt with me of the Enemy’s Intention to move soon; their late Reinforcemt at Brunswic...
An Inconvenience of considerable Magnitude arising from the Practice of carrying Household furniture &C. in Waggons & Carts to the Enemy has determined me to direct that in future nothing shall be transported that way—I do not mean to prevent such of the Inhabitants as choose to withdraw within the Enemy’s lines from taking with them all their Apparel & Household furniture as usual if they can...
Letter not found: to Maj. Gen. Philemon Dickinson, 12 Aug. 1777. Dickinson’s letter to GW of 11 Aug. is docketed in part “Ansd 12th.”
I was favoured with your Letter Yesterday by Mr Hindman. The measure you recommend, respecting the Militia, is extremely necessary and what I much wish to be done. It came under the consideration of Congress, when the Fleet first came up the Bay, and dispatches were sent by their Order to Genl Smallwood & Colo. Gist to repair to Maryland to command them, at least the Quota called for by...
Near Germantown [ Pennsylvania ] September 14, 1777. Forwards to Dickinson steps taken to counteract the enemy in New Jersey. Is confident of Dickinson’s cooperation and assistance. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Dickinson was a major general in the New Jersey Militia from June 6, 1777, to the close of the war.
I have this morning received a copy of your letter to Congress informing of the enemy’s incursion into the Jersies. You will perceive by the inclosed letters what steps I have taken in consequence of your information. After perusing them, you will forward them with all dispatch. On your part I am confident you will do every thing in your power to assist in counteracting the enemy. I am with...
Letter not found: to Maj. Gen. Philemon Dickinson, 19 Sept. 1777. Dickinson wrote GW on 20 Sept. : “I . . . have had the honor of receiving your Favor of Yesterday’s date.”
I am favd with yours of the 21st and am happy to find that you are on the point of marching to the reinforcement of this Army. To quiet the Alarms and Fears of the people upon the Sound, I would recommend it to you to pick one thousand or twelve hundred of your best Militia and let the remainder return. If you come with them yourself I beg you may march with all possible expedition to form a...
The vast quantity of Stores of different kinds that are accumulated at Trenton will make it a work of some time to remove them, and if they are left intirely uncovered it may tempt the Enemy to send up a light party to destory them. I shall therefore be glad if you will endeavour to throw in a Body of your Militia to mount a guard over the Stores till they are removed. I must leave the Number...
The Enemy are exerting every nerve to reduce the Forts on the Delaware viewing them as insurmountable Obstacles to their holding philadelphia, if they remain in our hands. Against that on Mud Island they have been carrying on their Operations with great activity and industry for many days but as yet without success. They also sent a considerable detachment across the Delaware Yesterday morning...
Letter not found: to Maj. Gen. Philemon Dickinson, 27 Oct. 1777. Dickinson’s letter to GW of 25 Oct. is docketed “Ansd 27th,” and on 1 Nov. Dickinson wrote GW , “Your Excellency’s favor of the 27th October, I receivd the 30th.”
your favor of 26th Instant, covering Governor Livingstons Letter to you, I receiv’d last evening; by which I observe he does not think himself authoriz’d to give you the necessary orders respecting a Compliance with my requisition. General Foreman has been at Red bank some days & has collected a small number of Men there, I have heard nothing of Genl Newcomb for some time past Genl Foreman...
I have received your Letter of the 1st Inst. informing me of the delay of the Governor and Council in giving an answer on the Subject of my last to you; and the reluctance of the Eastern Militia to abandon Elizabeth Town—to compensate for the backwardness of the latter in obeying orders which they themselves do not absolutely approve, and make the best of their thwarting disposition, you...
I have received your Letter of the 6th Inst. and thank you for the intelligence contained in it—you will farther oblige me by communicating immediately whatever new matter of public consequence may occur. The importance of the Post at Red-bank makes it necessary for us to employ all possible resources in rendering it so respectable by the Strength of the Garrison, and the number of Troops...
I have this day receiv’d your Favor of 28th Ulto—& can only say it gives me concern that your Excursion to staten Island was not attended with success equal to your expectation, which, from the Plan you had formed, the Secrecy with which you expected to have executed it, I suppose was pretty Sanguine—but Experience shews us that the most triffling incidents will frustrate the best concert’d...
I have your favr of the 9th informing me of the destruction of the Frigates and private Vessels at Borden town. Upon the first intimation of this design I detattched General Maxwell with a strong party, in hopes that he would have reached the Delaware time enough to have given them some opposition, but they had compleated the Business and gone off by the time he reached the cross Roads. Had...
Letter not found : to Philemon Dickinson, 24 May 1778. Later the same day GW wrote another letter to Dickinson revealing “some intelligence received ⟨si⟩nce I wrote you to day.”
From some intelligence received ⟨si⟩nce I wrote you to day, it would seem that the Enemy have a Land movement in view, but where or what their object is, is entirely a matter of incertainty. Some reports say they mean to make a push against us here and that this is the most common opinion—Others that their intention is to pass through Jersey. Lest the Latter should be their object, I think it...
I have received your favor of yesterdays date—the intelligence contained in it as far as related by the two Deserters, agrees with what we have collected here from persons of the same kind and others who have left the city lately—It has been hitherto difficult to decide whether the intention of the enemy was to retire by means of their shipping, or by marching through the Jerseys—the...
The inclosed, just came to hand from Genl Maxwell —no truth in the report, of flatbottom’d Boats, being brought round into Princes Bay—a small Sloop, still keeps her station in the Kills. A Report prevails here, that the Enemy have evacuated Powles-hook, & withdrawn their troops from Fort Washington, those & many other particulars, shall be informed off in a short time, as a proper Person is...
Your favr of Yesterday came safe to hand. What the real designs of the Enemy are remains yet to be discovered. Appearances and a thousand circumstances induce a beleif that they intend thro’ the Jerseys to New York. Your last intelligence however is a lot to this opinion, inasmuch as it contradicts a former report of their assembling a number of Boats in prince’s Bay —That they will either...
Letter not found : to Philemon Dickinson, 8 June 1778. On 10 June, Dickinson wrote GW in reference to “your Excellency’s letter of the 8th instant.”
Letter not found : to Philemon Dickinson, 15 June 1778. In another letter to Dickinson of this date, GW refers to having written to him “this morning.”
Since I had the pleasure of writing you this morning I have received intelligence which makes it probable that the enemies rout will be determined in 24 hours. You will therefore order the necessary look out on your part on this occasion—and inform Gen. Maxwell to keep his small parties close upon the enemy in order to discover their first motions and course And Whether they stretch towards...
[ Valley Forge, June 18, 1778 .] States that enemy is crossing Delaware and orders Dickinson to obstruct enemy as much as possible. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
I have this moment received intelligence, that the rear of the enemy are crossing the Delaware—I am putg the army in motion in consequence—Yesterday General Knox, by my order, sent you thirty or forty thousand Cartriges, for the use of the militia, if necessary, otherwise you will deliver them to General Maxwell. I rely on your activity to give the enemy all possible obstruction, in their...