47491From George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge, 31 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 29th. The inclosed Letter for Colonel Sheldon, I entreat you will forward by the first safe conveyance. With great esteem & regard I am Dear Sir Your Very Hble Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
47492From George Washington to Jean-Louis-Ambroise, chevalier de Villefranche de Genton, 31 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to repair to Albany and put yourself under the orders and command of Brig. Genl Clinton. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
47493From George Washington to Lund Washington, 31 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I returned last Saturday from a conference with the Counte de Rochambeau at Weathersfield, on Connecticut River, & found your letter of the 9th Instt; & the last Post brought me another of the 16th. We have heard nothing yet of the detachment (consisting of about 2000 men) which left New York the 13th Instt, nor do we know whether those Troops were bound for Virginia, North or South Carolina,...
47494To George Washington from Jotham Loring, May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured with your Excellencys letter of the 6th of April containing a refusal to grant me a new Trial and the reasons of such refusals. I may be thought perhaps extremely pressing in continuing my applications to your Excellency on the subject of my affairs—That I am pressing I readily confess, but at the same time hope, that I am not more so than my distressed situation demands....
47495To George Washington from Oliver Phelps, 31 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am happy that I have it in my power to express my respect for your Excellency, by forwarding a very beautiful Ox to camp; which I have desired the Commissary General to deliver for your Excellencys use. I have the honor to be your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
47496General Orders, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
Commanding officers of regiments and brigades are desired to pay particular attention to prevent the soldiers from injuring their hutts when they quit them and to warn the inhabitants in the vicinity not to meddle with or destroy them. The six companies of Colonel Van Schaick’s regiment at West Point to be ready to move as soon as the Quarter master General has provided Vessels. The Regimental...
47497From George Washington to Nathanael Greene, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favors of the 22nd and 27th of April enclosing Copies of your Letters to Congress. The difficulties which you daily encounter and surmount with your small force, add not a little to your reputation, and I am pretty well assured that should you be obliged finally to withdraw from South and even from North Carolina, it will not be attributed to either your want of abilities...
47498From George Washington to Bartholomew von Heer, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letter of the 25 Inst. together with the several Enclosures, by your Dragoon the day before yesterday— prior business prevented my dispatching him, untill this time. It gives me great pleasure to find by the Papers transmitted in your Letter, that no part of the embarrassment and distresses of your Troop is owing to want of attention or care in you— but on the...
47499From George Washington to Wilhelm von Knyphausen, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s letter of the 17th ulto. I am sorry that you should have occasion to complain of the treatment of Leiut. Sobbe and Quarter Masr Hartzog while under the protection of my passport in Philada. You may be assured that it is not my wish to countenance either unpolite or improper behaviour towards Gentlemen in their situation, and that due enquiry shall be...
47500To George Washington from William Livingston, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to your Excellency a Resolution of our Legislature desiring me to apply to you for some Ammunition. Lead is not to be purchased in Philadelphia; & tho’ we have employed a person to procure it in Boston, his journey thither & back again will necessarily keep us too long without that essential Article. I have the honour to be with the greatest esteem Dear Sir your...