1To Alexander Hamilton from Francis Dana, 25 August 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your letter of the 10th instant, last Sunday evening, at Cambridge, by the hand of Colonel Henley, enclosing a copy of your letter of the 6th, to Lieutenant-Colonel Brooks, and his answer to the same. I should have earlier acknowledged the receipt of them, but I thought proper to accompany such acknowledgement with such evidence as I could collect from one of the company present...
2To Alexander Hamilton from William Gordon, 25 August 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Upon my return home from a visit on the monday evening I received yours without a date. However common the principle may be, on which you urge me. to an immediate direct & explicit answer , as tho’ the least hesitation or reserve might give room for conjectures, which it can be neither your wish nor mine to excite —it is certainly a false one. In many cases a gentleman may receive information...
3George Washington to Sir Henry Clinton, 25 August 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, August 25, 1779. Criticizes Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Wurmb’s treatment of Captain Abner Haywood, who had been sent with a flag to the British lines. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
4General Orders, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Daniel Johnston of the 8th and Ezekiel Case of the 5th Connecticutt regiments now under sentence of death are to be executed next saturday at such time and place as Major General Heath shall direct. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . GW’s expenses for this date included 16s. recorded as, “To Cash pd to servant mus[k]mellon a present” (Revolutionary War Household Expenses, 1776–1780, DLC:GW , Ser....
5From George Washington to General Henry Clinton, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose the copy of a letter from Major General Heath, accompanied by a report from Captain Heywood, lately sent by him with a flag to your lines, representing the treatment he met with, from Colonel Wurmb, the commanding officer. Persuaded, that you will reprobate so gross a violation of a flag, I have no doubt, that you will take effectual measures to discountenance the...
6To George Washington from William Gordon, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging letter of the 3d instant afforded me peculiar pleasure, & more especially the close of the postscript, as it furnished me with authority for the removal of prejudices, wherever I found any had been produced against your Excellency, by the idle & foolish expressions of individuals. I am not insensible of the delicate situation you have been in, between the Congress & the Army; &...
7To George Washington from Honour Harnage, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have nothing to offer in extenuation of the impropriety and indecorum of this address, but merely my own feelings, and distress, which urge me, perhaps beyond the delicacy of my Sex, to intrude on your Excellency. my earnest prayer, that you will consent to a partial exchange of Major Harnage, and Capn Hawker? (the former my Husband, the Latter my Relation). The peculiar hardships of our...
8To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Adjutant General informed me this morning that your Excellency was desireous to know which of the Criminals vizt Johnson and Case of the Connecticut Line who are under Sentence is most worthy of Death, and that I would make enquiry and Send my opinion. Having attended to the matter I find that, Johnson belongs to Greenwich is a Single man 34 years old has nither Brother or Sister, but...
9To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Some Days Since A Mr Carman of Fishkill called at my Quarters and shew me paper Containing—a Permission from His Excellency Governor Clinton for Mrs Hannah Apple to go into New York to reside there, On the Same paper was a line inserted by Colo. Mead directing the Officer at the advance Post of the american army to grant a Flagg for the purpose for which Mr Carman applied to me, at the Same...
10From George Washington to Joseph Hewes, 25 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favor of the 14th: I wish it were in my power to fall upon the means of procuring the enlargement of your friend Mr Granberry; but as I have no Citizen under my controul, who would be a fit subject to propose as an exchange, either upon parole or finally, I have not an opportunity of interesting myself in his behalf. It has been a point determined and invariably pe[r]sisted in, not...