1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkinson, 28 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to receive the grateful Homage of a sensible Mind, for your condescension in exposing to me M[ajo]r Genl Gates’s Letters which Unmask his Artifice & efforts to ruin me. The Authenticity of the Information recd thro Lord Stirling I cannot confirm; As I solemnly assure Your Excellency I do not remember the Conversation which passed on that occasion, nor can I recollect particular...
2To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 9 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
The frequent Applications which I receive, from the General officers & other Individuals of the Army, for Articles of Clothing for their Servants & Waiters, occasions me great perplexity & Uneasiness, and obliges me to request your Excellency, either to Authorize my compliance therewith, or to inform the Army that my Duty obliges me to reject them, for from the mistaken Idea of my possessing...
3To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 12 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you Returns, of the Clothing on Hand in the Magazine in Philadelphia the 1st Inst: & of the Issues made to that Day since my last Return. The Assistant Clothier general having lately made Returns of the state of the Eastern Magazines makes it unnecessary for me to say any thing respecting them at present: I have therefore only to add that I expect the Shoes & light...
4To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 1 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Conceiving that the novelty of the thing may render it acceptable; I have presumed to offer to you, by the Hands of Capt. Prior, two Kegs of Salted Fish, which were taken in the Big Miami River. And, with the most dutiful attachment to your Person, & the highest veneration for your exalted Station I have the Honor to be Your obliged & faithful Soldier & Servant ALS , NIC . The docket reads:...
5To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 30 December 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Wilkinson, 30 Dec. 1787. GW wrote Wilkinson on 20 Feb. 1788 : “I have received your letter of the 30th of December.”
6To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 9 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was last Evening honored with your Letter of the 2nd Inst: & shall pay every practicable attention to the Mandate therein contained; in the mean time the justice I owe my Character obliges me to assure your Excellency, that no Moment of my time since my Arrival in this place has been otherwise employed than in direct pursuit of the Interests of the Army & of the Public; and I am confident I...
7To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 1 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
J: Wilkinson takes the Liberty to send the President, a rough draft & concise description of his 1000 Acre tract of Land on the Ohio a few Miles above the little Miami, as reported to Him by the Surveyor. AL , DLC:GW . The enclosed document contains a hand-drawn map of GW’s tract near the Ohio and Little Miami rivers, accompanied by the following text: “The presidents 1000 Acre tract of Land...
8To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 7 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose your Excellency an exact report of the Clothing in my Possession & in the Hands of the Agent Clothiers, to whom I have wrote intreating their exertions to push forward the several Articles in their Hands to New Burgh, & I have directed them to represent the exeigency to their respective executive Powers & require the Transport necessary for the occasion —Genl Heath...
9To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 5 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from James Wilkinson, 5 Oct. 1779. On 8 Oct., GW wrote Wilkinson: “I have received Your Letter of the 5th.”
10To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 26 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
Should this Letter be presented to you, it will be from the Hands of the Miamis Chief the Little Turtle, who in ballancing between a visit to the Town of Boston, or Mount Vernon, has decided in favor of your Seat. I think Sir, you will find Ideas more correct, and a mind more capacious in this Chief, than any of his race. It was He who conducted the action of the 4th November against Genl St...