11To George Washington from Major Apollos Morris, 28 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
The herewith inclos’d, is the letter promis’d. A Disorder which made it as improper to send any thing under my hand as to go myself, hinderd my transmitting it on the day of its date. A Cold the Consequence of the Cure of that disorder detains me here. To disguise my wish that if terms consistent with freedom were offer’d, you should use that influence, which I am certain you will employ for...
12To George Washington from William Duer, 28 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
I beg Leave to introduce to your Excellency’s Acquaintance Mr Sacket, a member of the Convention of the State, a Man of Honor, and of firm Attachment to the American Cause. He will communicate to your Excellency some Measures taken by him, and myself which if properly prosecuted may be of infinite Utility to the present military Operations—I have therefore recommended it to him to wait on you...
13Franklin and Chaumont: Agreement about Board at Passy, [c. 28 January 1777] (Franklin Papers)
D : University of Pennsylvania Library On January 28 Franklin intended, as he mentions in the preceding letter, to move to Passy within a few days. He was following his younger grandson, who at Chaumont’s instigation had been put in boarding school there. In fact the old man waited, for reasons we do not know, until the end of February, and this agreement on board might have been reached at...
14General Orders, 28 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Commanding Officers of regiments, to order, regimental Courts Martial, for the trial of such prisoners as belong to them, now confined in the Provost Guard, that do not come under the consideration of a General Court Martial. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .