1From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
As I shall have occasion to remove Colo. Rawlins’s Corps from Fort Frederick in Maryland, (where they are guarding the prisoners,) to Fort Pitt, I must request the Board to call upon Governor Johnston of Maryland to furnish a Militia Guard to releive Colo. Rawlins. I wish no time may be lost in making the requisition, and that the Governor may be informed of the necessity of sending the Releif...
2From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Moses Rawlings, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have desired the Board of War to call upon Govr Johnson to furnish a Guard of Militia to releive you —As soon as the Releif arrives you are to march with all your Men fit for duty to Fort Pitt and upon your Arrival there take your orders from Colo. Brodhead who now commands in the Western department —You will leave Officers to proceed in recruiting your Corps to the establishmt if you think...
3From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor of the 22d with the list of the officers of the regiment and the return. As subsisting the horse is become a matter of much difficulty, congress may not & I believe do not think it convenient to increase their number under present circumstances —On this consideration the officers actually belonging to your regiment, I would suppose fully adequate to its duties. The...
4From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 13th Inst. The papers you inclosed I herewith return—In my letter of the 9th—I gave my opinion on the measures to be pursued in Capn Scudders and Doctor Anthony’s case—so that the papers are of no further use to me—and may be communicated to the Court of Admiralty if they throw any light on the affair. You will be pleased to forward Col. Hazens Letter. I...
5From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of the 13th I do not know that there is any provision made for procuring Hunting Shirts for the Army or that the Stock of linen will allow of it. I cannot therefore give an order in favor of any particular Regt If the States undertake to furnish these to their own troops, it is done without my knowledge or interference. The inclosed Copy of a Resolve of Congress, will I...
6From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote to you on the 16th I have been informed, tho’ not in such a way that I can depend upon it, that the Country between Chemung and the Seneca Nation is great part of it so low and swampy that it is traversed with difficulty by even a few Foot. This is a matter that should be ascertained with the utmost precision, because should we endeavour to move a Body by that Route, to cooperate...
7From George Washington to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
With this Letter you will receive Fifty Guineas for S—— C——r, which you will cause to be delivered as soon as possible, with an earnest exhortation to use them with all possible ĩconomy, as I find it very difficult to obtain hard money. I wish C—— could fall upon some more direct channel by which his Letters could be conveyed, as the efficacy of his communications is lost in the circuitous...
8General Orders, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .