1From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 11 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby ordered to proceed immediately to Norfolk; where you are to use your utmost endeavours to enlist what able-bodied Men you can: You are to be at Alexandria the 25th of December, without fail. LB , DLC:GW . Robert McKenzie remained captain of his company until early fall 1761 when William Byrd III, GW’s successor as colonel of the Virginia Regiment, ordered him to report to the...
2From George Washington to John Savage and Robert McKenzie, 16 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are ordered to remain here with your Recruits until further Orders. So soon as you arrive here, your men will be supplied with Clothes by applying to Major Carlyle. If any of your men should desert, you are to use your utmost diligence in pursuing and apprehending them, by immediately advertising, and sending a party or parties after them. LB , DLC:GW .
3From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 13 July 1756 (Washington Papers)
You are to proceed with your Company to the Fort, now commanded by Captain William Cox; and take the command of it until the Militia at Pearsalls, &c. are discharged—which will be as soon as Harvest is over. You must then remove to Pearsalls Fort, and take the command there: During your stay at Cox’s, you must escort all Waggons, Expresses, &c. going up as far as Ashby’s, and coming down, to...
4To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 3 August 1756 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert McKenzie, 3 Aug. 1756. On 5 Aug. 1756 GW wrote to McKenzie: “I wrote you yesterday; since which I have received yours of the 3d instant.”
5From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 4 August 1756 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert McKenzie, 4 Aug. 1756. On 5 Aug. 1756 GW wrote to McKenzie: “I wrote you yesterday.”
6From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 5 August 1756 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you yesterday; since which I have received yours of the 3d instant, and observe the contents. I find it impossible with the few men I have to erect a chain of Forts on the frontiers; as the Assembly have ordered , and the Council of the 10th instant, advised: For which reason, and to relieve yours, as well as the complaints of others, the enclosed to Captain Waggener covers...
7To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 9 August 1756 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert McKenzie, 9 Aug. 1756. On 13 Aug. 1756 GW wrote to McKenzie: “Yours of the 9th enclosing a return of your company, I have received.”
8From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 13 August 1756 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the 9th enclosing a return of your company, I have received. I would advise you to keep these minutes regularly entered; as well for your own satisfaction, as for transmitting me copies of them, in case of miscarriage. Be particularly careful and expeditious in forwarding all Expresses, either to or from me: communicating all remarkable intelligence to the adjacent Forts as well as...
9To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 18 February 1757 (Washington Papers)
I have been lately advised by my Friends to take a Step, which though it may tend to my Advantage, may equally prove detrimental, if too rashly undertaken. And as I would not enter into an Affair of the Kind, without previously acquainting you with it, & begging your Advice; I hope you will candidly impart it to me, by which I shall regulate my Conduct. The Regiment has been for some Time in a...
10From George Washington to Robert McKenzie, 11 June 1757 (Washington Papers)
The exorbitant expence, and bad precedent of giving to every Indian who is pleased to demand it, a Horse to ride, compel me to tell you, that a stop must be put to the practise, or the officer who directs it will be made liable for the cost. The Country will not allow it; Nor are you to give them liquor, but upon extraordinary occasions. I have the pleasure to inform you, that you are one of...