31To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 6 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor of receiving your Letter of Yesterdays date encloseing one from Mrs Mary Pemberton to you—I am to inform your Excellency that Council chearfully comply with the request of that Lady, being desirous that the Situation of the Gentlemen in confinement should be made as agreeable as may be consistent with the safety of the state—you will please therefore to receive enclosed a...
32To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 11 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed is copy of a letter written by the Navy Board of Pennsylvania; which the Council thought proper to refer with such intelligence respecting the boats &c. in Delaware as Captain Huston shall be able to give, to your Excellency. However unwilling the state may be to lose their little force on Delaware, their confidence in your wisdom will induce a ready obedience to your Excellency’s...
33To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 20 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I had the honor to receive your Excellencys Letter of the 17 Inst., enclosing the instructions of Mr Thomas Edwards, one of the Commissioners of this County for purchasing Flour &c., to Patrick Maguire. The liberty therein given by Mr Edwards to Maguire is as extraordinary as it is injurious—and by no means consistant with the orders which he receivd from Council. It is owing to such...
34To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 5 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Altho your Excellencys letter of the twenty sixth day of April has been repeatedly under consideration of this Council, and measures have been taken to obtain an account of the arms fit for service belonging to this state, we have not yet been able to ascertain it; but we have reason to fear that the number will be greatly short of what we could wish, perhaps three thousand are as many as we...
35To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 2 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of yours of the twenty third of February last which I layed before Council. I hope as the militia called out, are chiefly arrived at General Laceys camp, they will secure the counties of Bucks and Philadelphia, from any further insults and ravages of the enemy (unless they come out in force) who I am sorry to find have been but too successful. General Lacey I am informed is...