7801To George Washington from Arthur St. Clair, 3 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
General Greenes Army, by the Return, including The Cavalry & Artillery amounts to 2719 Waynes & Gists Brigades to 2112 The Cavalry & Virginia Infantry, suppose 500 5331 The Cloth in Gerlach’s Invoice will make, Coats & Vests for 899 Uniforms made 420 With Genl Greene
7802To George Washington from the Continental Congress Secret Committee, 14 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
You have annexed an extract of a letter we have just recd from Messrs Clarke & Nightingale Merchts in Providence Rhode Island, this letter was laid before Congress who ordered this Committee to inform your Excellency of the Powder therein mentioned & to desire you woud take possession of it granting a receipt for the same to those who have it in keeping in order that we may Account hereafter...
7803To George Washington from Jacob Bayley, 25 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am Sory to Tire your Excelencys patience with my letters but as you was pleased to Imploy one in Some business in Time past. The account of which I have Sent to General Hazen who will lay them before your Excelency for your approbation. I have wrote him who will say what is necessesary on the accounts you will pardon me when I make one request more for my Son in Captivety, when the other...
7804To George Washington from Brigadier General William Smallwood, 25 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have revolved in my Mind the Subject of your Requisition last Night, and placed it in every Point of View, and must confess I am much embarrassed, I see the Propriety and Necessity of an Attack, I view with Pain the pressing Expectations of the Public, the Reputation of the Army at Stake, the depression of our Money, the difficulty & hazard of the proposed Attact, and the Misfortunes & I may...
7805To George Washington from William Hamilton, 17 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I will with great pleasure forward you on Monday whatever is in my power of the kinds of plants you desire & will prepare them in the best manner for the voyage. The time being short, I am uncertain at what time of the day they may be ready. You need not therefore send for them. I will have them deliver’d at your House in the course of it. With the most perfect respect & sincerest regard I am...
7806From George Washington to William Pearce, 3 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th with the reports came to hand yesterday —and I am glad to find you have met with a supply of twine in Alexandria, as there is no prospect that has yet opened, of getting it from hence in time and I have no doubt that under all chances fishing yourself will be more profitable than hiring out the landing for Sixty pounds. I am not disposed to take any thing less for my...
7807To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 16 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with your Excellencys favor of the 13th instant in answer to mine of the 6th. I had no design to convey an Idea in that Letter that a releif from the Command of this Post and its dependencies would be agreeable to me; as I have made it an invariable rule Since I entered the Service to do the duty assigned me, without a murmur or expresing a desire of preferring any other,...
7808From George Washington to Lieutenant William Patterson, 18 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
General Knyphaussen having obtained a passport for Quarter Master Major Kitz to go to Fredericksburg in Virginia with a Serjeant & Servant and a Waggon with Cloathing and Necessaries for the Hessian Officers at that place, In order that the same may be safely conveyed, and that no irregularities may attend the execution of this Business, you are to proceed with all convenient expedition with...
7809To George Washington from Henry Pendleton, 10 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of Introducing to you Mr Shuttleworth a Gentleman of very ancient Family and Large fortune in England who arrived here in his own Yacht about two months since and proposed to make a kind of maritime tour thro’ America by sailing coastways and up the principal rivers as far as the Water will suffer his vessel to go; His Family in Yorkshire & Lancashire has several members in...
7810To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 8 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the third instant is received—We have exerted ourselves to obtain money for the Connecticut line of the Army, and have had success so far as to put up thirty five hundred pounds lawfull money in silver and Gold, ready to be conveyd to the Army for pay and Wages of our line; it will be at Danbury by the fifteenth instant—wish for directions relative to bringing it...
7811To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 10 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
On revolving in my mind the subject of making suitable provisions for the Invalid Officers as you recommended, I find many difficulties will attend our making that provision for them to which the services and sufferings of some of them entitle them, without doing that for others, which in justice they can have no pretentions to—I should be much obliged by your thoughts on a System which will...
7812To George Washington from Dwight Foster, 30 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Asa Ellis Junr of Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, a Native of that State, has requested Me on his Behalf to present to You the Piece of Cloth herewith transmitted as a Specimen of American Manufacture. The art of dying scarlet has not been generally known in this Country—he apprehends he has discovered it and says the Colour is as durable as that made in Europe—This Cloth is...
7813From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
In your letter of the 14th instant in answer to my enquiries, I do not know whether you clearly understood my meaning and intention, As it is essential to the due execution of some plans, in contemplation, and to orders I am about to give, to have the following Questions solved with precision, I wish you to say. How much Flour and how much Salt Beef and pork you can lay in at Albany by the 1st...
7814From George Washington to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 20 January 1771 (Washington Papers)
As there has happend several very considerable, & not less surprizing changes respecting the Lands West of the Allegany Mountains since our Flattering prospect about this since twelve months—indeed since the meeting of the officers at Fredericksburg in August last, I think it indispensably necessary that we shoud have another meeting, in order to fix upon some settled plan of operation under...
7815To George Washington from William Eden, 9 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
Doctor Ferguson whose Eminence in the literary World wd alone entitle Him to a favourable Reception with your Excellency will have the Honour to deliver this Note together with a Packet of Letters to several Gentlemen on this Continent. The Letters were left at my House in London a little previous to my Departure from England when I was too much occupied to see the Persons who brought them &...
7816To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 27 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
General Heard, Genl Roberdeau have considered with me the Plan proposed for Attacking the Posts on Staten Island—Two things we entirely agree in—Namely that the Number of Troops proposed are by no means equal to the Undertaking—We cannot rationally suppose the Enemies Force on the Island to be less than 10,000—where these are cheifly posted we have no intelligence to be depended on—Several out...
7817To George Washington from Colonel Stephen Moylan, 29 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to inform your Excellency by Mr Lott, that I intended coming with the Cavalry to this neighborhood, on my arrival I reconoitred the country and found a great majority disaffected, and taking every oppertunity of Supplying the enemy, yesterday I Sent a party of 80 horse to Bergen, with orders to drive up what Catle they Coud Collect, from that town, to the point, which they have...
7818From George Washington to Major General Robert Howe, 14 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favr of this date with the two prisoners of War. I shall put them into the hands of the Commy of prisoners who makes frequent exchanges of the few privates of ours now of days in the possession of the enemy, by which means Colo. Sheldons Men will probably soon regain their liberty in the regular way. You will be pleased to furnish Capt. Lequaw’s Company with provision and...
7819To George Washington from John Hanson, 17 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your favour of this day, I beg leave to inform your Excellency, that the Resolutions you allude to, were transmitted to Genl Greene, by Express, on Saturday last; and that it is the desire and expectation of Congress that the Returns of the Troops composing the Southern Army should be called for by your Excellency, and forwarded to the Executives of the States to which they...
7820From George Washington to Arthur St. Clair, 19 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
It is a considerable time since I received the Letter in which you informed me, it would be impossible for you to return to the Army at the period appointed, on account of your pecuniary & domestic affairs. Sympathizing deeply in your private distresses, I have delayed to recall your attention and presence to your Command as long as the circumstances of Service, my own personal feelings, and...
7821To George Washington from Joseph Galloway, 18 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
Apprehending that the Business of War by no Means excludes the Feelings of Humanity, and relying on that Candor and Liberality of Sentiment which those who are best acquainted with your Excellency agree you possess, I have presumed to request the Favor of your permitting Mrs Galloway with her Household Furniture and Effects to remove from my Seat in the Country to Philadelphia. Coud I imagine...
7822To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I left the City of Philadelphia this Morning on my way to Newark as I mention’d to you previous to your departure. Nothing new had occurred. Mr Belli was furnished with the requisite sum for the purchase of Dragoon Horses in Kentucke, in conformity to an arrangement, which I understand [from] the Secretary at War, was made pursuant to your direction. The Quarter Master General also has had an...
7823To George Washington from Phillips Callbeck, 24 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Winter Harbor, District of Maine 24 December . “I should but ill deserve the generous treatment Your Excellency has been pleased to shew me had I not gratitude to acknowledge so great a favor. . . . Fearfull I should encroach on Your Excellency’s time I have declined giving You a detail of the continued distress and persecution that has attended me since I had the Honor of taking my leave—I...
7824From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 8 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives I send herewith, for the information of Congress, the treaty concluded between the United States and the Dey and Regency of Algiers. LS , DNA : RG 46, entry 47; copy, DNA : RG 59, Reports of the Secretary of State to the President and Congress; copy, DNA : RG 233, entry 28, Journals. The enclosed copy of the treaty of 5 Sept. 1795,...
7825From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 21 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11th Instant has been duly received. The altered One to Messrs Wilhem, and Jan Willink has been forwarded to its address, and the former is herewith returned. Your application to the Bank of the United States for the loan of money, having failed (as I presume the Secretary of the Treasury has informed you, and as I had always supposed would be the case) I have executed the...
7826From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 28 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
To the Quarter Master General, or Deputy Qr Mr with the Army. In all cases on the present march, where the Draught Horses or Cattle of the Army shall fail, or where an addi ti onal number shall be absolutely necessary, & cannot be procured by hire, or in any other way except by Military Force; you are hereby authorised & directed to impress such numbers of Horses or Oxen as shall be required...
7827From George Washington to William Heath, 12 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your several Letters of the 9th 10th & 11th Instant. It will be proper upon the general principle & practice, to Order an enquiry to be made into the conduct of the Commanding Officer of the Guard, which escorted the Prisoners to Easton. The discriptive Lists of the Recruits may be lodged with the Commanding Officers of Brigades, or the Dep. Adjt Genl as you shall think best....
7828From George Washington to John Hancock, 15 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mr Du Coudray has lain before me a plan of the river, by which it appears, that, for a considerable space between the two sand banks on the East side of Fort-Island, there is from four to four and a half fathom’s depth of water. According to this representation, there would be room for three frigates to lie between those banks, in such a position, as to enfilade the works at Fort-Island, and...
7829To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 13 February 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
In the moment I was closing & dispatching my letters to the Post Office, I learnt from the Attorney General of the U.S. that you would be here on the 17th. My mind being continually uneasy on Acct. of Young Fayette, I cannot but wish (if this letter should reach you in time, and no reasons stronger than what have occurred against it) that you would request him, and his Tuter, to come on to...
7830From George Washington to Brigadier General James Hamilton, 29 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was last night honored with your polite Letter of the 25th Instant —and am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you are pleased to entertain of me. I feel for the situation of Capn Fetherstone, in whose favor you interest yourself, but yet It is not in my power to comply with your request in his behalf. I should hope he may secure his claim by writing to Sr Henry Clinton—and his friends...
7831From George Washington to John Jay, 7 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of Sunday came to my hands yesterday, and for the Pamphlet enclosed, I thank you. The purport of my last to you, with the enclosure, are incontrovertible evidence that no offer had been, or could be made to the Gentleman you mention, until you had decided on the proposition which was made to yourself. The report therefore, of its having been so made, could be no other than mere...
7832From George Washington to Lord Cornwallis, 12 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
General Howe by a Letter of the 23d Ulto which came to hand a few days ago, having proposed a conference on the future mode to be observed for the exchange of prisoners—their subsistance &ca, and appointed Lt Colo. Walcot to negotiate respecting the same, I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that Lt Colo. Harrison of the Army will meet Lt Colo. Walcot on Monday, the 17 Instt at 12 OClock, at...
7833To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 9 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Inclosd is a Letter receivd last Evening from Mr Patterson. The contents are not the most agreeable; and how it comes directed through me to your Excellency I cannot imagin. He mentions there being a greater number of Boats upon the Susquehannah then he gave an account of when at Camp. Will it not be best to lessen the number orderd to be built; if the proper sizd ones can be had already fit...
7834To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 4 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of writing you by the Maria some weeks ago —since which I have heard that Colonel Willett had proceeded by Land, with Mr McGillivray & a number of the Creek Chiefs on a Visit to New York. As this confidence in them in consenting to travel through the Country has induced the inhabitants of our frontiers to suppose that every thing either is accommodated or in a fair way of...
7835From George Washington to Samuel Hanson, 18 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 16th Inst. was handed to me yesterday in Alexandria as I was going to dinner: previous to that I had seen my Nephew George Washington, and asked him if he had heard of any suitable place for himself and Lawrence to board at after their quarter with Mr McWhir expired; he told me that it was probable a place might be obtained at a Mrs Sandford’s; I desired him to inform...
7836To George Washington from Frederick Weissenfels, 18 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to aquaint your Exellency, that the distance, from the Cats Kill Mountains Where the Rigth of my Gaurd Comences, to Pienbeek is Senventy three Miles, to Gaurd that distance, I Expect to have about 300 Men, Excluse of a party of one Captain one Subaltren and 30 Men at Orange Town, and one Captain two Subaltren and 50 Men, at Bedford in West Chester County, Which disposition of The...
7837To George Washington from Samuel Adams, Sr., 11 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit to your Excellency the inclosd Address of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth and to assure your Excellency that with the most grateful remembrance of your generous and successful Exertions in securing and Establishing the Liberty & Independence of our Country. I am with sincere Esteem & affection Your Excellencys most Obedient & very humble Servt DLC :...
7838To George Washington from Charles Washington, 23 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 29 of Octr, I recd by Mr Muse, and am Sorry to find the two Little boys are at a place where they are gaining so little Improvement at so high an Expence, perhaps they might do better at Alexandria, Mr McCray tils me there is a well Established School at that place, and supposees there Expence would not amount to nere what it is at present, or if you think it more advisable...
7839To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 7 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
I send herewith the Seal you was pleased to commit to my Care—The time has been scarcely sufficient for the purpose. The Letter to Mrs Ferguson has been forwarded with one from myself, in the manner you requested. As I may not have the pleasure of seeing you again before you leave the City, permit me once more to express my most affectionate wishes for your health & happiness, and most...
7840To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 20 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have just received a letter dated the 17th from Judge Benson: He accepts the place of third Commissioner under the fifth article of the British treaty, and was to set out yesterday for Passamaquoddy, to meet there the other Commissioners on the third of October. The trust, he remarks, is not incompatible with his present office; and interfering with it only for a short time, his acceptance...
7841To George Washington from Robert Morris, 23 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
Captain Hutchins in a Letter of the twenty Second Instant, inclosed to me a copy of his letter to your Excellency of the fourteenth, and of your answer of the Sixteenth. I have had a conference on the Subject of these letters with the Minister of War, and afterwards with Captain Hutchins. General Lincoln tells me that a Map of South Carolina has already been taken at great expence and with...
7842To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 17 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
By the papers herewith enclos’d your Excellency will be informed of Captain Silvanus Smith’s application to be recommended for one of the vacant Majorities in the Massachusetts Line—And also Captain Burnham’s, and others, objections thereto, as Captain Burnham is very desirous, and Captain Smith has no objection, I beg leave to request, that, the relative rank of the Massachusetts Captains may...
7843To George Washington from William Barton, 10 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
You did me the honor, some time since, of accepting a printed copy of a paper of mine, which had been read before the American Philosophical Society. I now, Sir, take the liberty of offering for your acceptance the inclosed Supplement to that paper. With sentiments of the highest respect, & most perfect attachment I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedt hble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ....
7844From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [2 May 179[4]] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor of enclosing herewith the draft of a Passport for the President’s signature intended for the brigantine Lily, now at Baltimore. The case was here before the Secretary’s letter of yesterday was sent to the President, and was overlooked. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to George Washington, May 1, 1794 ; H to Otho H. Williams,...
7845From George Washington to John Blair, 30 January 1758 (Washington Papers)
Hearing of the Governors’ departure for England; I think it a duty incumbent on me to inform your Honor, that I lingered a long time under an illness which obliged me to retire from my command (by the Surgeons advice, and with the Governors approbation;) and that I am yet but imperfectly recovered from it: which is the cause that detains me from my Duty. I have many accompts to settle with the...
7846To George Washington from Philip John Schuyler, 3 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with your Excellencys favor of the 30th ulto, covering a letter for General Stark, which I shall deliver him assoon as he arrives, and offer him every aid in my power to contribute. I did myself the honor to adress you on the 1st Instant in a letter which will go by this conveyance, and to which I beg leave to refer you for information relative to the batteaux to be...
7847From George Washington to William Stephens Smith, 19 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
In conducting the common business, at the Post of Dobbs’ Ferry (of which you have the superintendance), You will cause the Orders & Regulations contained in the several written Instructions which will be delivered to you by the present commanding Officer, to be duly attended to & observed—but I have thought it necessary to give you this private Instruction, hereby authorizing you to take such...
7848To George Washington from John Trumbull, 3 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the Ship Factor bound to Philadelphia I send a Box addressed to your Excellency, containing Two Prints, which I beg you will do me the Honour to Accept. The Plate of the Death of Montgomery is at length compleat, and the impression which I now send is, (excepting the inferiority of the Paper,) such as will be delivered to my friends in America; that of the Death of Warren is promised to be...
7849From George Washington to William Heath, 27 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Quarter Master informs that Teams with flour will probably be at New Windsor by tomorrow night, and suggests whether it will not be adviseable to have flat-bottomed Boats ready for the transportation of it; as sail Boats may be delayed by the adversity of Wind or Tide. The Commissary of Prisoners reports that there are several Prisoners of War, sent on as recruits from the State of...
7850To George Washington from John Page, 30 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Multiplicity & importance of Business in which I have been engaged, prevented my making the Extracts from Mr Anderson’s Letter which I promised you on Tuesday last, till unfortunately it was mislaid so that I have not yet found it—but I recollect that he gave me his Opinion freely that Mr Gayle was an honest punctual Man, & he supposed capable of making such Payments as you might require—&...