1The American Commissioners to Vergennes, [26 June 1777] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères To his Excellency the Count de Vergennes, Minister for Foreign Affairs We the underwritten, Commissioners from the Congress of the United States of N. America, beg leave to represent to your Excellency, that Captain Burnel, Commander of an armed Vessel commissioned by the said States, did lately take Refuge in the Port of Cherburgh with his...
Two LS : American Philosophical Society; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives (two) Since our last of 18th. Inst. in which you were informed of the Enemy being encamped at Somerset Court house eight Miles from Brunswick We have the pleasure of acquainting you that on the 19th at Night they made a precipitate retreat therefrom to the last mentioned place, and on the Morning of the 22d...
3Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 26 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Yale University Library Agreeable to the determination I mention’d in my last every operation relative to the annonyme remains suspended. I have notified Mr. Peltier that I would not consent to any alteration of your orders and that he might take his ship and do what he pleased on Mr. Montieus Account but nothing on Yours. She lays at Paimbeauf with part of her Cargo on board...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Elie de Beaumont, 26 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Votre illustre cause acquiert de plus en plus de nouveaux partisans. Vous verrés par la lettre ci jointe de Monsieur le Comte de tressan lieutenant general des armées du roi qu’il consacre un autre lui même a la defense de la liberté ameriquaine, ou plustôt de la liberté humaine, car si elle n’existoit plus dans vos heureuses contrées dites moi dans quel...
5General Orders, 26 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
The troops are to complete three days provisions of bread and flour, as soon as possible; and but one day’s provision of flesh, if it be fresh, or three days provisions of salt meat; if to be had, and to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment’s warning—They will lodge themselves in the best manner they can this night, near the gaps of the mountains—From every gap, proper picquets...
6To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 26 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mr Boudinot thinks it his Duty to report to his Excellency General Washington, that Complaints of the cruel Treatment of a number of our Prisoners, taken by the Enemy & confined in the Goals of the City of New York, are daily increasing—That Mr Boudinot as Commissary General of Prisoners, has made the best Inquiry into the Truth of the Facts alledged, that his Circumstances will admit—That on...
7To George Washington from Major General Israel Putnam, 26 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
your favours of the 22d & 25 Inst. I have receivd. If I mistake not, yours Orders where that I should Order, Genl McDougal’s Brigade, back if they had not Advancd two far—Genl McDougal Crosd the River himself the morning, before I recd your letter and I thought, he could not have got, with his Brigade more that four or five miles, but since I find he had Orderd his Brigade, to march the day...