1To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 1 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The information I received at camp and communicated to your Excellency, relative to the expected resignation of a general officer was, I believe, not well founded—But if your excellencys opinion should concur with my wishes I may possibly obtain employment by another circumstance. I am advised that it is in contemplation at the War office, to organize all the independant corps, and such as are...
2To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 10 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
This will be presented by Captn Ferroll a native of Maryland, who was in England at the commencement of the War, and sometime an Officer in the British Army. He came over to America, and was in Philadelphia & Remained there when it was evacuated by the enemy in 1778, and became a prisoner, and was afterwards liberated, and, has remained with us ever since. Captn Ferrell requests that I will...
3To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 2 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I intended to have had the honor and the happiness of personally acknowledging to you, Sir, at your Head Quarters, the very grateful sense I have of the favor of your Excellency’s interest in Congress, to which I consider myself principally indebted for my late promotion in the Army; but being detained longer at Philadela than I expected, I hastened to this place lest the general Assembly...
4To George Washington from Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 11 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellencys instructions I have taken post at the Furnace of Deane, And in order to relieve & Support the Picketts at Fort Montgomery & on the Road to Doodle Town with the greater facility, have advanced Majr Webb, about two Miles, to the post occupied by Coll Stewart, with One hundred and sixty Men compleatly Officer’d; With this Detachment I have a constant communication....
5To George Washington from Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 28 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am exceeding sorry to be the Author of bad News, but lest a more imperfect account shod reach Head Quarters, I think it my Duty to acquaint your Excellency of the misfortune sustain’d by Coll Baylors Corps. Early on Sunday the Coll remov’d with his Regiment from Paramus to Herring Town (a small place two or three miles from Taupaun) and took Quarters. Between three and four this morning the...