12061From George Washington to Samuel Blachley Webb, 28 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
General Washington Presents his Compliments to Ten Officers of Colo. Webb’s Regt and requests the favor of their Company at Dinner tomorrow at 3o’clock. CtY : Samuel B. Webb Papers.
12062From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 18 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a duplicate of a letter which I forwarded yesterday by an express. The accounts from Philadelphia since, still continue to increase, and confirm a design of the enemies evacuating the City. I beg you may transmit to Coll Ethan Allen the inclosed letter by some safe and certain conveyance. I am Sir your most obt and very humble servt LS , in James McHenry’s writing, NHi :...
12063George Washington to John Jay, 25 July 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ West Point ] July 25, 1779 . States that the Marquis de Fleury wishes to return to France. Hopes that Congress will grant Fleury’s request for a furlough. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
12064From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 19 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
By this time nearly, you must have discover’d what effect your movement towards New York has occasioned. If the City on the one Hand is not left so destitute of Troops as to afford you an easy conquest of it, nor so strengthened as to leave the Enemy weak in this State, the End of your expedition is not answered, and the junction of your Troops with these under my Command (after leaving...
12065George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, 19 December 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] December 19, 1778 . Regrets that plans for winter quarters cannot be altered. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
12066From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 15 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
As you are retiring from the Office of Quarter Master General, and have requested my sense of your conduct & Services while you acted in it, I shall give it to you with the greatest chearfulness & pleasure. You conducted the various & important duties of it with capacity & deligence—entirely to my satisfaction—and as far as I had an oppertunity of knowing—with the strictest integrity. When you...
12067General Orders, 6 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . An entry in Lt. Col. Aaron Burr’s orderly book for this date announces, “Writing Paper to be sold at the Virginia State Store Near the Bull Tavern” ( NHi ).
12068General Orders, 3 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
In order to prevent the inconveniencies and abuses which have prevailed both with respect to the number and management of guards appropriated to the stores of the Army, the General directs the following mode to be pursued in future. The brigade Quarter Masters are to choose a convenient place in the rear of each brigade as near the encampment as possible for the deposite of all the store...
12069General Orders, 18 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Gen. Peter Muhlenberg’s orderly book contains the following general orders for this date signed by Adj. Gen. Timothy Pickering: “The Rolls are to be called this evening & Officers and Men strictly charg’d not to stir from their Quarters, where their Corps are encamp’d, that they may be ready to march at a moments warning, Severe Punishment will be the Demerit of...
12070[Diary entry: 28 April 1775] (Washington Papers)
28. Clear and a little warm. Wind Southerly.
12071General Orders, 15 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
A Subaltern officer and ten men from each of the brigades on this ground including the Garrison are to parade as soon as possible at Major General Greene’s quarters with their arms blankets and two days provision to go into the country to impress Waggons for the public service. The Quarter Master General or his Deputy will appoint one flat-bottom’d boat for the use of each brigade which is to...
12072From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 29 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday forenoon I had the honor to receive your favor of the 23d Instant, with a Resolution of Congress of the preceding day, appointing Major General Gates to command in the Eastern district. A copy of the Resolution was immediately forwarded to him at Hartford, with a request that he would repair to Boston in compliance with it. Your Excellency’s letter to him, was also dispatched by the...
12073From George Washington to Brigadier General John Nixon, 8 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have to request, that you will, immediately, make a return of the troops, under your command, belonging to the State of Massachusettes to the Assembly of that state. It is necessary this return should be very exact and particular, as it is intended for the information of the Assembly, in their arrangements towards completing their batalions. Among other things, you will specify, the time, or...
12074General Orders, 22 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Colonel of Artillery, Quarter Master General, Commissary General and Commissary of Ordnance stores, to make out exact Returns of all military Stores, Provisions &c. &c. now in Boston, Cambridge, Roxbury, Dorchester Heights, and Forts &c. adjacent—This must be done in the correctest manner, and when finish’d and sign’d, delivered by the proper Officer of each department, to the Commander in...
12075From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 30 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I herewith transmit Your Excellency the proceedings & sentence of the General Court Martial in the case of Major General Arnold for the approbation or disapprobation of Congress. The proceedings will be found in two packets committed to the care of Major Gibbs. I also think it my duty to inclose Your Excellency the Copy of a Letter of the [ ] Instant, from the Quarter Master General on the...
12076From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Ternant, 21 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Knowing it to be the intention of Congress to employ no more foreigners except such as come under special engagements or whose recommendations & former Services speak so powerfully as scarce to leave a choice I coud not undertake to give Mr T—— any assurance of a permanent appointment much less the promise of Rank without authority of Congress. Nor could I stand justified upon any principle...
12077From George Washington to John Hancock, 11 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am now to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the 4 & 7 Instt with their several inclosures, & am exceedingly glad that before the Resolution respecting Lt Colo. Ogden came to hand, I had ordered him to Join his Regiment, and had quelled a disagreable spirit both of mutiny and desertion which had taken place & seemed to be rising to a great degree in consequence of It—In order to...
12078Proclamation for the Cessation of Hostilities, 18 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief, orders the cessation of Hostilities, between the United States of America, and the King of Great Britain, to be publickly proclaimed, to morrow at the Newbuilding and that the proclamation, which will be communicated therewith, be read tomorrow evening at the Head of every Regiment and Corps of the Army—After which the Chaplains with the several Brigades will render...
12079From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 21 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 16th, with the several papers to which it referred, came duly to hand on Wednesday Afternoon. I this minute received from General Sullivan the Letter I have now the honor of forwarding you, with One addressed to myself. A copy of the latter is also inclosed. The General seems to have been very near the Enemy’s lines—& on the point of opening all his Batteries. Things appear...
12080From George Washington to Comfort Sands, 16 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
By my letter of the 25th ulto informing you that the Army was about to take the Feild, and pointing out its disposition—I imagined you would have understood that a proportion of Hospital Stores was as necessary as that of other Species of supplies, and that a magazine of them would have been established in the Vicinity of the main Army, not only for the accommodation of the sick in the Feild,...
12081From George Washington to Major Henry Lee, Jr., 24 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am informed by General Foreman that there is a great number of horses in those parts of monmouth County within the Enemy’s power belonging to disaffected persons. To prevent the Enemy’s having the benefit of these and to have it ourselves—you will immediately set about driving off from the part of the Country under the above description all the horses fit for waggon or riding service—and...
12082From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 1 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I do not find that the Enemy are advancing on the West side of the River. From the latest accounts they were at the liberty pole and at the Newbridge near Hackensack; and from many circumstances and the conjectures of the Officers in their Neighbourhood, it would seem that foraging is the principal object of their expedition. I was very apprehensive that they would possess themselves of some...
12083From George Washington to Alexandre-François-Auguste de Grasse-Rouville, comte de, marquis de Tilly Grasse, 17 September … (Washington Papers)
Le noble et genereux Secours qui est donne a ce pays par Sa majesté tres chretienne, remplit comme il le doit Le coeur de tout Americain d’amour et de reconnoissance. Le zêle et L’activité qu’apportent les oficiers dans L’execution de Ses instructions royales, meritent au plus haut degré notre admiration et nos applaudissements—nous en avons actuellement sous Les yeux une nouvelle preuve—mais...
12084From George Washington to William Livingston, 9 April 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Livingston, 9 April 1778. On 11 April, Livingston wrote GW , “In Answer to your Excellency’s favour of the 9th with which I am just now honoured.”
12085From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 19 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am favored with Yours of the 17th and 18th Inst. I am not sufficiently informed of the mode of transferring to the Corps of Invalids to give a definitive Answer; but as Mr Frye is represented as a good Officer, I have no objection to his having leave of absence for the recovery of his health. If the Levies who remain, are well cloathed, and capable of duty, it may be well, to retain them...
12086From George Washington to William Livingston, 3 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was a few days ago honored with yours of the 18th ulto inclosing the depositions of several inhabitants and civil Officers respecting ill treatment recd from sundry Officers of the Army and a refusal in some of them to submit to the civil process—Major Call and Mr Heath two of the Officers are at Winchester in Virginia in Winter Quarters a very considerable distance from hence, but if you...
12087General Orders, 6 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
The commanding Officers of Battalions, that furnish the Commander in Chief’s Guard, are not [to] draw for the men thus furnished after they have left their respective Battalions, but are to give each man a Certificate of the day on which he was last paid; in order that the Captain of the Guard may be enabled to make out their Abstract properly. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
12088From George Washington to John Hancock, 28 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Having endeavoured, at the solicitation of the Count De Pulaski, to think of some mode for employing him in our service, there is none occurs to me, liable to so few inconveniences and exceptions, as the giving him the command of the horse. This department is still without a head, as I have not, in the present deficiency of Brigadiers with the army, thought it adviseable to take one from the...
12089From George Washington to Major General Stirling, 14 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favr of the 9th. I am still of opinion that no good can possibly result from any Negociation entered into with General Phillips on the subject of the Exchange of the Convention Troops, more especially as I find by a letter from Mr McHenry that Capt. Bibby had dropt some of the terms which he had in charge from Genl Phillips to propose, particularly that of exchanging whole Corps of...
12090From George Washington to Peter Scull, 20 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favs. of the 15th and 18th instants, with the latter, the Commissions for the Jersey Brigade and 1st and 2d North Carolina Regiments came safe. Capt. Ogdens Commission in the 1st Jersey Regt bears date 2d Feby 1779. There was a mistake in the Rank of the Capt. Lieut. and three oldest Lieutenants of the 1st Carolina Regt—It stands truely as follows. Robt Varner Capt. Lieut. 8th...