61To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 19 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
At the desire of Council I enclose your Excellency a state of Colonel Samuel Attlees claim upon which are founded his expectations to be recommended to Congress as a brigadier General of this state I also enclose your Excellency the resolutions of the Council of safety respecting the prisoners and the plan of arrangement from which you will have a very clear and explicit view of Colonel...
62To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 5 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Joseph Reed, 5 Feb. 1779. GW wrote Reed on 9 Feb. : “I have the honor of your Excellency’s favr of the 5th instant inclosing sundry Resolves of the Executive Council respecting the Conduct of Major General Arnold during his command in the City of Philada.” GW also wrote Reed on 12 Feb. : “In my last I omitted to answer that part of your Excellency’s letter of the 5th...
63To George Washington from Joseph Reed, c.1 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Joseph Reed, c.1 March 1779. GW wrote Reed on 4 March : “Inclosed is a letter which I had written your Excellency, previous to the receipt of your favor by Mr Keen.” GW is referring to a letter of 3 March that he had written to Reed but that had not been sent before the c.1 March letter from Reed arrived. GW’s letter of 3 March discussed plans for an expedition against...
64To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 3d Instt inclosed in one of the 4th came safely to Hand. At that Time & till this Day the Business to which they refer was transacted by a Committee of Assembly in Concert with one from Congress. Their Proceedings I only knew from common Report & were thought by some inadequate to the End. Yesterday Advice was received that the Indians had begun at a Place called Bushy Run...
65To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 29 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have this Evening received your Favour of the 26th—The Appellation which Col. Proctor has given his Regiment is by no means a proper one. By an Act of Congress which has lately been recognized by an Act of Assembly & Council he is put upon the Line of the State for the Purposes of receiving those Benefits & Comforts which have been voted to the Troops of this State, but no farther. So that...
66To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 2–5 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to accept of my Thanks for your Favours of the 28th & 29th Ult. & the Intelligence inclosed. I shall esteem such Communications a particular Mark of your Regard, & if you could occasionally mix your own Sentiments as to the Measures most adviseable it would add to the Favour. My Ideas upon the Subject so perfectly correspond with yours that I shall take every possible Measure to put...
67To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 14 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 8th was delivered me on Sunday, & I beg you to accept my Thanks for the Attention to our distressed Inhabitants on the Frontiers. The Support & Comfort they will derive from it, will have the most happy Effects & confirm the Hopes I have given them that nothing will be omitted for their Safety consistent with the necessary Caution, & Regard to be had to the Defince of the...
68To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 25 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am to thank you for your favour of the nineteenth Instant, and hope the state I am about to give of our affairs will in some degree answer, to your Excellencys satisfaction, the most important parts of your letter. As soon as I returned from camp, orders were issued for calling two hundred and fifty militia from the inner counties for the protection of Bedford and Westmoreland, those...
69To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 26 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Joseph Reed, 26 April 1779. On 27 April , GW acknowledged “the receipt of your two letters in Council of the 24th and 25th inst, to which I should have added that of the 26th.”
70To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 1 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I received your Favour of the 27th April this Afternoon, & the Council having adjourned to Monday, when it will be laid before them, & an official Answer given; I could not rest satisfied without immediately in a private Way, endeavoring to remove some of those Impressions which seem to have been made from a Misconception of our last, different from what I am confident was intended. It would...