1George Washington to John Beatty, 23 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, September 23, 1779. Sends instructions for exchange of prisoners. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
2From George Washington to John Beatty, 23 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received your report dated the 22d of your transactions with Mr Loring on the subject of exchanges. Mr Lorings answer to your first proposition revives the old question of a composition of privates for officers which has been so repeatedly and so fruitlessly agitated—and which can now only tend to embarrass the relief of the prisoners on both sides—It seems that the more we do to remove...
3From John Adams to Samuel Chase, 23 September 1779 (Adams Papers)
I had yesterday the Pleasure of your kind Letter of the 2d of this Month. I should not have sat down in so much Haste as I am in at present, even to acknowledge the Receipt of it, if it was not for the Extraordinary Intelligence it contains, of some Merchandizes shipped to me from Amsterdam, in the sloop Porpus. There must be some Mistake in this, as I knew nothing of it. I never heard nor...
4To Benjamin Franklin from John Torris, 23 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I have received with due respect & gratitude your Excellency’s most Esteemed favour 19th Inst. We apprehend that your Excellency’s Judgement there in Joined, for the Brig Dublin Thomas Griffitths, & for the 11. Ransoms taken by the Black Prince, will Suffice, & the request there in made to the admiralty, will, I hope, determine them without hesitation to...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Sylvain Bailly, 23 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr Bailly presente ses respects a Monsieur Franklin. Il envoie savoir s’il sera demain après midi chez lui, et s’il peut recevoir Mad la comtesse de Beauharnois qui desire infiniment de le voir. Mr Bailly se fait un grand plaisir d’accompagner Mad. de Beauharnois chez Mr Franklin et de lui renouveller l’assurance de sa respectueuse amitié. Mr le cher de...
6To Benjamin Franklin from John Bondfield, 23 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have the Honor to forward by the Express going with the dispatches receivd by the same Conveyance the Inclosed packets arrived last Evening by Cap Benin(?) from Boston he saild from that port the 25 August, he reports that by a considerable reinforcement arrivd at Ponobscot our People were oblidged to destroy their Shiping and abandon the attempt against...
7To Alexander Hamilton from William Gordon, 23 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Tho from the expressions & innuendos in yours of the 5th instant which I received from Col Henly the last tuesday, I cannot apprehend myself treated with due respect, yet I shall not be thereby drove either to reply with asperity, or to quit my own plan of conduct. Said one of the greatest soldiers of the age in which he lived, “The business of a general is not to fight but to overcome.” When...
8To Alexander Hamilton from James Duane, 23 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
I find I have given our Friends Tighlman and Meade an opportunity of exercising their Risibility . The whole Expence ought to be mine, and it is taking an ungenerous advantage to oblige you to contribute your Club. Tell them from me that however they may carry it at Head Quarters, if you and I could catch them at the Manour it is possible they might be convinced that my Enquiry was not...
I had Yesterday the Honour of your Letter of the Seventh of this Month. I thank you, sir, for your obliging Congratulations on my Return to my Family and Country. The Reason why my Letters of the 27th of February and the 1st of March arrived so late, was, that they were delivered at the Time of their Date to Gentlemen, then bound to the seaport who expected to sail directly for America but...
10From George Washington to John Jay, 23 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
Lieut. Colo. Fleury having communicated to me his desire of Returning to france & on some matters interesting to himself. I have thought proper to give him this letter to testify to Congress the high opinion I entertain of his conduct & services. the marks of their aprobation which he has Received on former occasions (specialy for the interesting part he bore in the defence of fort miflin)...