21From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 30 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose for the information of Congress, the report of the Baron Steuben, who was sent into Canada to make arrangements with General Haldimand for withdrawing the British forces from the Posts within the territory of the United States. The Letter from General Haldimand to me, referred to in his Letter of the 13th inst. to the Baron, is not yet come to hand. The...
22To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 16 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 8th instant, enclosing Mr Chittendon’s receipt, came safe to hand and was duly laid before Congress. I have also the honor to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s private letter of the same date, enclosing the Bank Notes for 95 Dollars on account of the late Revd Mr Caldwell’s Children—I cannot but again repeat on behalf of these distressed Orphans, the...
23To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 23 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will give me the utmost credit, when I assure you, that it is with the most unfeigned Joy, that I congratulate your Excellency and the whole army on the confirmation of the signing of the definitive Treaty of peace by all the belligerent powers, on the 21st of January. This happy event has just been announced by an Express from on Board a Sloop of War in the River, dispatched...
24From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 7 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Repeated Applications have been made to me, in favor of Major Villefranche and Capt. Lt Enfant, of the Corps of Engineers, for their individual promotions; and being again pressed upon me, by Major Genl Duportail, I take the Liberty, thro your Excellency, to submit to Congress, whether some general principles of promotion, applicable to this Corps, as well as others in the Army, might not be...
25To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 20 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I omitted writing yesterday, supposing that your Excellency would have had constant Intelligence from the Gentlemen of the Army, and not being able to send any thing very material, knew it would be but troublesome. Finding this Morning that I was mistaken in the first, I push the Bearer forward with the enclosed Acct of facts which you may depend upon, as they come from a Person of Credit, who...
26From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 26 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to have to acquaint your Excellency, for the information of Congress, that a project which I had formed for attacking The Enemys Post at Oswego, so soon as the Sleighing should be good, and the Ice of the Oneida Lake should have acquired sufficient thickness to admit the passage of the Detachment, has miscarried. The report of Colol Willet, to whom I had intrusted the Command of the...
27To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 26 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the first Moment of Leisure since our Arrival here, to inform your Excellency that Congress have removed to this Place—The Reasons of our Conduct, I cannot delay the Post to give you in full—They are in short contained in the enclosed Proclamation—I think my last was on Monday, the Committee appointed to Confer with the President & Council of the State, could not prevail to have the...
28To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 9 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing to your Excellency, an Act of Congress of the eighth instant, together with the Letter, therein referred to, and have the pleasure to be Your Excellency’s Most Obedient & very Humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington. In consequence of the 7th Article of the treaty between America & England I with a number of others, have been to New York in order to...
29From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 9 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit to your Excellency the Copy of a Letter which I received Yesterday from Sir Guy Carleton, by the Hand of Capt. Stapleton Deputy Adjut General to the British Army. I should have sent it off instantly by Express for the Information of Congress, but being told by Capt. Stapleton, that Dispatches had been sent out by Sir Guy Carleton & Admiral Digby, by Way of...
30To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 21 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
This Afternoon I dispatched an Express to your Excellency (a copy of whose dispatches is inclosed) informing of the mutinous conduct of the Troops in the Barracks in this City, part of whom lately came in a mutinous manner from Lancaster. I thought proper to call Congress together this evening since writing by the Express, in order to deliberate on the proper steps to be taken in consequence...