1From George Washington to Jonathan Dayton, 11 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
Passports having been granted by me for Genl Losberg to send out of N. York One Q. Master & two Noncommissioned Officers havg charge of Money Cloathg & medicine for the Use of the Hessian prisoners in Phila.—You will receive them at the post of Elizabeth Town, & suffer them to pass on by the nearest Rout to philadelphia, agreable to the Tenor & strict Expression of their Permission, which they...
2From George Washington to Jonathan Dayton, 21 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 18th by Mr Skinner, from whom I have also learnt that a flag which lately arrived with Prisoners from New York, has been detained in conformity to my Orders on that subject, until further directions should be received; in which you have acted very properly. But you will on the receipt of this, suffer the flag to return, informing the Officer that no more...
3From George Washington to Jonathan Dayton, 27 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter without Date with a packet from Sir Hy Clinton. You do not inform the Channel thro which you have obtained the important Intelligence you mention—but from the positive Manner in which you transmit it, I hope it may be depended on. It has been rumoured to me that a large Fleet has lately been seen near the Hook—but who they are or from whence they arrive is not...
4To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 1 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform your Excellency that Lieut. MacDonald formerly of the 71st British but last of the King’s Orange Rangers has made his escape from New York by way of Staaten Island to this post. He tells me that the injury which has been done him in point of rank, the ill treatment he has received from his Colonel and his attachment to America & her cause, joined to the consideration...
5To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 21 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Mr Skinner, whose immediate departure did not afford me an opportunity of writing upon the subject, has without doubt reported to your Excellency the circumstance of the detention of Mr Lenox Depy Commissary of naval prisoners, his vessel and the hands as prisoners, agreable to your Excellency’s orders communicated by a letter to Colonel Dayton some time since. They will be continued at this...
6To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 13 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Upon the return of Colonel Stewart to Camp, I put into his hands to be delivered to your Excellency the latest English and New York papers which I could collect. I have now the honor of enclosing to your Excellency the hand bill of yesterday relating to the engagement upon the 12th Ultimo, between the French and English fleets, lest report might have given to the story a degree of truth and...
7To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 23 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour and happiness of communicating to your Excellency the agreable and important news of the capture of the whole Island of Minorca the 17th of February by our allies and of the treaty offensive and defensive between France and the States of Holland which has been lately concluded. These events we learn from a vessel which has just arrived in a short passage from Lisbon and from...
8I. To George Washington from Captain Jonathan Dayton, 7 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by Colo: Dayton to inform your excellency that the enemy landed this night at 12 oClock, from the best intelligence four or five thousand men & Twelve field pieces, & it is his conjecture they intend to penetrate into the country. I am your excelly’s most hum. servt ALS , DLC:GW . Jonathan Dayton (d. 1824), son of Col. Elias Dayton, joined his father’s 3d New Jersey Regiment as...
9To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 18 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of writing to your Excellency the 13th and of enclosing the latest English papers for your Excellency’s perusal. I now take advantage of Mr Skinner’s departure for the army to acquaint your Excellency with such circumstances as have come with in my knowledge relating to the enemy, as well as to forward the papers of the 15th & yesterday. A fleet of about forty sail of...
10To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 12 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 24th to Colonel Dayton as it very nearly affected me by declaring your Excellency’s displeasure and disapprobation of my conduct was communicated to me by him. From the mistaken report which appears to have been made to your Excellency upon this occasion I should be justly censured for a deviation from, and disobedience of, my orders; but, I trust, when every...