1To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The day before yesterday I received a packet from the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts bay Containing several papers, (of which the enclosed are Copies) and a number of Warrants for Officers they have promoted and by which they are to act untill they receive Commissions from the board of war, to whom there is a Certificate among the papers. The assembly desire that I would...
2To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am honour’d with your Excys favours of the 2d & 4th instant. You will receive herewith enclos’d two Acts of Congress of the 6th instant. By the one your Excellency will observe that Congress approve of Colo. Baylor’s Regiment of Dragoons being sent to South Carolina, and have directed the board of War to give the necessary orders for that purpose. The other is designed to regulate the...
3To George Washington from William Livingston, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Time of the Enlistment of our State Regiment will expire the 20th Instant; To raise a new one in its room the State really cannot afford; and to occupy the Posts on the Frontiers by the Militia is also attended with great Inconvenience as well as insupportable Expence—As the Troops under your Excellency’s command, will, as I am informed take up their Winter Quarters in New Jersey, Your...
4To George Washington from John Mehelm, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
In my last I gave your Excellency an Acct of Near a Thousand pr of Shoes more than has been since delivered to the Clothier General’s Store. they were Shoes that Mr Caldwell had purchased by order of the board of war before he became an Assistant of mine. he therefore did not consider himself under any Obligation to deliver the Shoes to my order but kept them for the Jersy Brigade to whom I...
5To George Washington from Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner, 7 Dec. 1779 . GW wrote Weltner on 17 Dec. : “I have been favored with your letter of the 7th.”