1To George Washington from Samuel Phillips, Jr., 8 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
In the Year 1779 the enemy made a lodgement on the banks of Penobscot river about an hundred miles west of the eastern bounds of this Commonwealth—a post too beneficial to them and too dangerous to the safety of this, and the other States in the Union to suffer us to remain in different, passive observers of their measures. Pursuing the same vigilant and determined spirit, which first induced...
2From George Washington to Samuel Phillips, Jr., 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been honord by the hands of Maj. General Lincoln and Mr Higginson with the joint address of the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusets dated the 8th day of this Month, containing a representation respecting the British Post at Penobscot, and the dangerous situation of the Eastern frontiers of the Commonwealth together with some proposals...
3To George Washington from Samuel Phillips, Jr., 18 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Letter of the 22d of February has been laid before the General Court, with a strict Caution of Secrecy, which particular parts of it required. It is possible you may not have been acquainted with the pretensions of the British Ministry to hold this Territory, founded as they Suggest, on the terms of the Royal Charter, under which the People of this Commonwealth held their...
4From George Washington to Samuel Phillips, Jr., 10 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Address of so respectable a Body as the Senate and House of representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusets, congratulating me on so auspicious an event as the return of Peace cannot fail to affect me with the highest pleasure and gratification. Be assured Gentlemen, that through the many and complicated vicissitudes of an arduous conflict, I have ever turned my Eye, with a fixed...