1From George Washington to Josiah Quincy, 4 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 31st Ulto was presented to me yesterday. I than⟨k⟩ you (as I shall do every Gentleman) for suggesting any Measure which you conceive to be conducive to the publick Service; but in the adoption of a Plan, many things are to be considered, to decide upon the utility of it. In the one proposed by you, I shall not undertake to determine, whether it be good, or whether it be bad;...
2From George Washington to Josiah Quincy, 25 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 7th Instt coming duely to hand I thank you for the Intelligence therein contained. It gives me pain, to find from your Acct, that matters are taking a wrong biass in the Politicks of your Government. I left five Regiments (upon an Average as strong as any in the Service) to erect such Works, and in such places, as should be deemed most conducive to the defence of the...
3From George Washington to Josiah Quincy, 24 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am favourd with your letter of the 21st Instt—it came to hand this afternoon, and I thank you for the many polite and flattering expressions which it contains—to obtain the applause of deserving men, is a heart felt satisfaction—to merit them, is my highest wish—If my conduct therefore as an Instrument in the late signal interposition of Providence hath merited the approbation of the great...
4To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 25–26 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging Letter of Yesterday was handed to Me this Morning by General Wards Son: The Fleet still continues in Nantasket Road; and I can’t discern any Diminution of their Numbers: five or six Transports, and a Man of War arrived last Fryday afternoon; as the Man of War saluted the Admiral I suppose they came from England. The Signal at the Light House was thrown out again on Saturday; but,...
5To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 27 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Since I was honoured, with your Excellency’s obliging Answer to my Letter of the 31st Ulto, the Question has often occurred to my Mind, whether, Row Gallies might not be as advantageously employed, in the Harbor of Boston, as in the River Delaware? and the more I have thought upon the Subject, the more I am confirmed in the Opinion that they may. The Quantities of Provision that, in the Course...
6To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Ever since I had the honor to receive, your Excellency’s answer to my last Letter, relative to the disgraceful command of Boston harbor, by a british 50 gun ship; I have wish’d for a subject, on which, my sentiments might prove worthy of your notice; and, of course, an adequate ground, whereon to revive a correspondence, which, for want of it, could not, on my part, be decently continued; But,...
7To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 27 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am happy to hear, by my worthy Friend Doctr Crosby, that my last Letter to your Excellency, with the Papers enclosed, were not only favorably receiv’d, but reviv’d the Remembrance of One, whom you are so good as to rank among the Number of your Friends. Would to God! my Abilities were equal to my Inclinations; for then, I wou’d endeavor to render my Self worthy of that Honor, by some eminent...
8To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 31 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
My worthy and dear Friend Doctr Franklin, the honble Mr Bowdoin, Doctr Winthrop, and Doctr Cooper, were, the last Week, so kind as to honour me with a friendly Visit: The Conversation naturally turned, upon the savage Cruelty we are dayly suffering, from the unrelenting Vengeance of a tyrannical Government : In the Course of it, the stoping up the Harbor of Boston, as one salutary Measure, was...
9To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 7 April 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Josiah Quincy, 7 April 1776. On 25 April GW wrote to Quincy : “Your favour of the 7th Instt coming duely to hand I thank you for the Intelligence therein contained.”
10To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 21 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Nothing less than an inveterate nervous head ach, has prevented my paying in person, those Compliments of Congratulation which are due to you from every Friend to Liberty and the Rights of Mankind, upon your triumphant and almost bloodless Victory, in forcing the british Army and Navy, to a precipitant Flight from the Capital of this Colony: A gratefull Heart, now dictates them to a trembling...
11To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 19 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since the sudden and unexpected burning of the Houses upon Dorchester Neck, I have been repeatedly and earnestly solicited, by my distressed Friends and Neighbours, to make an humble Representation to your Excellency, that, our Habitations are equally exposed to be destroyed by our Enemies, whenever their Malice shall stimulate them to make us feel the Effects, of the unrelenting Vengeance of...