1From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [6 May 1779] (Hamilton Papers)
I am commanded by His Excellency to acknowlege the receipt of your letter. He desires you will have the persons you mention carefully confined ’till they can be delivered over to the civil Magistrate as we have no military law by which to punish them. But ⟨that⟩ the civil law may have something substantial to operate upon, he requests you will do every thing you can think of to discover the...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Baron von Steuben, 6 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Bound Brook [ New Jersey ] May 6, 1779 . Sends directives and notes concerning regulation and administration of Army. Asks Hamilton to translate some of this material and transmit all of it to Washington. ALS , RG 93, Miscellaneous Records, National Archives. This letter is written in French.
3George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 6 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] May 6, 1779 . Asks Gates to examine rank of Captain Ezra Lunt. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Ralph Izard and Arthur Lee, 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania We have been informed that the destination of the Alliance Frigate has been altered, & that she is not to sail immediately for America. We can not help expressing our great uneasiness at this measure, as we are of opinion that there is no service, in which she can be so usefully employed, as that of convoying the Vessels bound thither. Many of our...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Arthur Lee, 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; ALS (draft): National Archives; copy: Harvard University Library I had not the honor of receiving your letter till today, tho it is dated the 3d. It came by the Penny post. It was by Mr Adams’s information, when on board, that I understood the Alliance “had now a good Crew,” & I cannot express my concern on hearing from you that it is otherwise. The persons...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
L (draft): Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress J’ai reçu, M, la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire Le 3. de ce mois concernant les effets et munitions de guerre demandès par les Etats de Virginie et de Maryland. Vous n’ignorez sans doute pas, que la premiére de ces provinces a obtenu des arsenaux du Roi, par le canal de M. Lée, des canons et...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Yale University Library I have not yet finished my algebraic Calculation relative to my proposed Voyage, because two Circumstances are wanting. News from America , & the arrival of Mr de Montieu . The first of these will I believe turn the Balance one way or the other.— If I should hear that my accots. have not been passed by the Committee, and that...
8General Orders, 6 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Virginia officers ordered on detachment are to be paid up to the first of May by their regimental Pay-Masters. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general orders: “The Baron Steuben’s Guard to be reliev’d Tomorrow from the pennsylvania Line” (orderly book, 22 Dec. 1778–26 June 1779, DNA : RG 93,...
9To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 6 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I had just closed my Letter of the 3rd instant when I was honoured with your Instructions of the 21st last Month. Every necessary preparation for evacuating Fort Laurens was already made in obedience to your former Instructions, and how to support it I know not. I can take no Salt Provisions from here without robbing the artificers & the few Troops on the Frontier of eleven Barrels of pork...
10From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 6 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I inclose you a representation in favour of Capt. Lunt, which is expressed in such strong terms and sanctionned by the names of so many respectable officers, as to deserve particular attention. His case seems to be singularly hard; but at this distance without an opportunity of inquiring circumstantially into the affair, I cannot undertake to make a different arrangement from that which has...