1From John Adams to James Warren, 9 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
I shall address this to you as Speaker, but you may be Councillor, or Governor, or Judge, or any other Thing, or nothing but a good Man, for what I know. Such is the Mutability of this World. Upon my Word I think you Use the World very ill, to publish and send abroad a Newspaper, since the 29 May without telling Us one Word about the Election, where it was held, who preached the sermon, or &c....
2From George Washington to Joseph Trumbull, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I herewith transmit you the Resolutions of Congress for several Augmentations of the Army —With Respect to Canada, I must inform you, that the last Accounts abound with Complaints of the deplorable Scarcity of Provisions, which our Men labour under; and mention the Impossibility of procuring Relief in that Colony—you will therefore, with all Expedition, forward a Supply of Meat and Flower;...
3From John Adams to Samuel Cooper?, 9 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
Yours of 27. May, received yesterday. I did not expect that our Army would have raised the Siege of Quebec, So soon, much less So unskillfully and So timorously. I cannot forbear, these Epithets. But raising a siege in open day, and in the Face of an Enemy, was a Step, that nothing could justify, that I can think of. The Small Pox is a terrible Enemy, but why could not this have been kept out...
4To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the twenty eighth of May, I received last evening, and shall give immediate attention to all your Directions. I sent forward the first of last week under the care of Genl Putnam’s Son to be forwarded to New york, five hundred Barrels of powder, five hundred Carbines, and all the other articles which were wrote for. The remaining three hundred Carbines to compleat the eight hundred I...
5From George Washington to the New York Provincial Congress, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely obliged for th⟨e⟩ high sense you entertain of my services, and for your promises of every possible assistance in the discharge of my important duty. You may rest assured, that my attention to the Interest and happiness of this Colony shall not be wanting, nor my regard to Its Civil authority remitted whilst I am honoured with the command I now hold. D , in Robert Hanson...
6General Orders, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
It is strongly recommended, to the officers of the different regiments, to practice the Salute with the Fusee, and to fall upon a method of being uniform therein; so as that all may acquire one and the same mode: And The General desires, that when the line is turned out at any encampment, all the officers keep their arms advanced, and salute only by taking off their hats, until they have...
7To George Washington from Lord Stirling, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Untill your Excellency has Leisure to determine on a further plan for the Security of the pass thro’ the Highlands, I would Advise, in order to give Fort Constitution some degree of Security against a Surprize to which it at present is liable in almost every part, that the Battery on the high Clift Marked B, in the plan No. 3 be Compleated so as to mount three Guns in front and one on Each...
8Zabdiel Adams to John Adams, 9 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
Having a very Convenient opportunity of Conveying a Line to you, by the Revd. Mr. Whitney (who being an invalid, sets out tomorrow on a journey to Philadelphia for his health,) I cannot but embrace it, just to let you know that though you are separated from me by a great distance of way, yet that you , and the respectable body to which you belong are often in my thoughts. I rejoice to find...
9To George Washington from Joseph Trumbull, 9 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
May it please your Excellency: In addition to what information I gave you last Thursday , I am now to say, that the Congress Secret Committee, so called, are now actually shipping from this place large quantities of pork; and I fear with such an example before them, no great effect can be expected from an application to Provincial Congress to stop others; and that I really fear very bad...
10From John Adams to William Cushing, 9 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
I had, yesterday, the Honour of your Letter of the 20th. of May, and I read it, with all that Pleasure, which We feel on the Revival of an old Friendship when We meet a Friend, whom, for a long Time We have not Seen. You do me great Honour, sir, in expressing a Pleasure at my Appointment to the Bench; but be assured that no Circumstance relating to that Appointment has given me So much...