14341From George Washington to the New Hampshire Committee of Safety, 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your publick Capacity, & the Hope that you will be both able & willing, to give us some Assistance, has led me to make this Application. The Situation of the Army, as to Ammunition, is by no Means what it ought to be. We have great Reason to suspect, the Enemy very soon intend to bombard our Lines; & our Stock of Powder is so small, as in a great Degree to make our heavy Artillery useless. I...
14342From George Washington to William Trent, 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 22d Ulto came to my hands a few days ago —the hurry of business in which General Gates necessarily got Involved immediately upon his arrival at this Camp put your Memorandum out of his head; which was a matter of no consequence, as Colo. Mercer is already fully advertised of every circumstance relative to the Sale of his Estate. As I have none of the Papers with me, I cannot...
14343From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
I am favoured [with] yours of the 31st July informing me that the new Levies were coming forward with all Expedition; As the Enemy has lain longer inactive than I expected I hope they will arrive in Time to give us their Assistance. My Last Letter from the Honble Continental Congress recommends my procuring from the Colonies of Rode Island & Connecticut a Quantity of Tow Cloth for the Purpose...
14344General Orders, 5 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
For the establishment of order, and to prevent disputes between Officers, as well for fixing a regular and proper distribution of the Commissions of the Continental Army, part of which are already arrived from the Congress and the rest hourly expected: It is ordered, that a meeting of the Field Officers of each Brigade, be held to morrow Morning at Eight OClock, as near as may be to the Center...
14345From George Washington to James Otis, Sr., 5 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Colo. Baldwin has this Morning reported that among others out of Boston, the Barrack Master’s Wife came Yesterday; and is now detain’d at Malden —As there may be Inconveniences, from Persons being Suffer’d indescriminately to go thro. the Country, many of whom, are undoubtedly disaffected to the Publick Interest: I have caused a Court of Inquiry to set upon several, but the Business...
14346General Orders, 6 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
14347From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 6 August 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 6 Aug. 1775. On 6 Aug. Baldwin wrote to GW : “I have Just Receivd your Excellencies Letter of this Evening.”
14348From George Washington to James Warren, 6 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
I should be very glad to procure Mr Hitchbourns Release agreeable to your Favour of yesterday if I could think of any Mode in which it was practicable. To propose it on any other Footing than an Exchange would I fear expose the Application to Contempt. As I observe he is included in the Vote delivered me this Morning by a Committee from the General Court. I apprehend it had best be left on...
14349General Orders, 7 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Captain Kilton of Col. Patterson’s Regiment, tried by a General Court martial for “Neglect of duty” is found guilty of a Breach of the 49th Article of the Rules and Regulations for the Massachusetts Army; They therefore sentence him to receive a severe reprimand from the Commanding Officer at the head of the regiment. Application having been made for Sutlers to supply the different Regiments...
14350From George Washington to James Otis, Sr., 7 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
By the General Return made me for last Week, I find there are great Number of Soldiers and non-commissd Officers, who absent themselves from Duty, the greatest Part of which I have Reason to believe, are at their respective Homes, in different Parts of the Country; some employ’d by their Officers on their Farms, & others drawing Pay from the Publick, while they are working on their own...