1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
By Mr. Guile who is bound to Amsterdam and from thence to France, I embrace this opportunity of writing to you; and inquiring after your welfare. Mr. Guile was the Bearer from Mrs. Dana who received them, of the first Letters I received from you. I wish he may be the safe conveyer of mine to you. I have written to you various times since your absence, but have never had one direct conveyance...
2From John Adams to Thomas Digges, 15 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
Yours of April 6. I have this day received. That of 28 Ultimo received. That of 20th not. Let me beg of you to send me duplicates, of Pamphlets, as they come out, when you send Letters to another Gentleman. Any Banker in London who will draw upon, Me or Mr. Grand the Banker for the Expence of them, shall be punctually paid, or I will get Mr. Grand to desire some Banker of his Correspondence to...
3From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 15 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 6 and 12 of April are before me. The last received to day. I thank you, sir, for so readily, undertaking to announce &c. As to going to England upon any Errand for me, the Time is not yet come. I must avoid every Thing of that Kind yet. The Memorial from Russia, refutes at once all the Lyes of Seven Years growth, which is one Point. It does more. It threatens, an Union of all...
Paris, 15 April 1780. RC in John Thaxter’s hand ( PCC , No. 84, I, f. 455–461). printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States , Washington, 1889; 6 vols. , 3:615–618. In this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, John Adams included newspaper accounts from Hamburg, Leghorn, Madrid, Paris, and London...
5George Washington to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 15 April 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] April 15, 1780 . Approves of plans for expedition against St. Augustine. Discusses situation in the South. Instructs Lincoln to “determine places of deposit” for provisions and forage in North and South Carolina. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
6George Washington to the Magistrates of New Jersey, 15 April 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] April 15, 1780 . Asks that Moore Furman be provided with teams needed for transporting provisions to Army. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. This letter is dated April 14 on the date line and April 15 in the endorsement.
7From Benjamin Franklin to Delleville, 15 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 10th. Instant, relating to the seven Americans who had Escaped in a boat from England, and arriv’d on your Coast. I beg you to accept my thankful Acknowledgements for the hospitality you have shown them—. I hope they will be allow’d to sell the Boat to furnish themselves with necessaries. Monseigneur...
8To Benjamin Franklin from B. Barbier, 15 April 1780: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Nantes, April 15, 1780, in French: Monsieur, please interest yourself in the dishonesty with which one of your fellow Americans, John Green, has been treated. Last April he obtained the command of the brig Patriote , owned by M. Gruel, on condition that he invest 10,000 l.t. in the venture, which he did. On Jan. 6, having settled all his affairs, Capt....
9To Benjamin Franklin from ——— de Chantereyne, 15 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je suis chargé de Larment [l’armement] de la Black Princesse capne Edward maccatter, pour M. Torris. Nous avons besoin de votre Protection auprès de M. Mistral & de M. deshayes comres. de la marine au havre & a Cherbourg, tant pour obtenir des matelots irlandois quètrangers qui Sont en diverses prisons, ou viennent dans des Prises. Si vous voulliès bien,...
10To Benjamin Franklin from George Logan, 15 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have the pleasure of informing you of my safe arrival here last Friday. The Letters you intrusted to my care have been delivered. Dr: Fothergill, & Mr: Barclay are very happy in hearing of your good state of health. The latter who has the care of my affairs, thinks they may be settled in about four or five weeks, but wishes me to return to America by a...
11To Benjamin Franklin from John Torris, 15 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society With inexpressible grief, I have the Honnour to acquaint Your Excellency with the Loss of our poor Black Prince Captn. Dowlin. She has Suffered all the hardships She ever cou’d, from the French, these Few weeks past. The Self-Conceited & Weak Commissary of Morlaix has forced my Correspondants there, to disembark the 22d to 25th. ulto., all her men that...
12[Diary entry: 15 April 1780] (Washington Papers)
15th. Cold & raw—Wind very fresh from the Eastward. Weather lowering with appearances of Snow or Rain.
13General Orders, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Clinton[,] Lieutenant Colonel Huntington[,] Brigade Major [ ] Fish. Lieutenant Colonel Howard is to join the 6th Maryland Regiment ’till a further arrangement of that line takes place. The Quarter master General will have the public roads between Morristown and Somersett Court House immediately repair’d; The Adjutant General will upon...
14Circular to the New Jersey Magistrates, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The readiness with which you complied with a late application of mine on the subject of provisions for the army, at the same time, that it makes me unwilling to trouble you more frequently than cannot be avoided, gives me the fullest confidence in your aid—whenever necessity and the public good require it. Another occasion presents itself equally pressing with the former, for the exercise of...
15To George Washington from William Brown, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a general return of the hospitals and Sick of the Army from the first of March to the first of April past; and now beg leave to inform your Excellency, that, with great reluctance on one consideration, but from absolute necessity on others, I am about to avail myself of the discretionary leave I obtained from your Excellency to visit my family for a few weeks—I have...
16To George Washington from Captain Bartholomew von Heer, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency the Commander in Chief will be pleased to take in Consideration the following Demands, which I am obliged to represent in a Short petition, wherein it will be mentioned, what foot the Troop wants to be put in; to acquaint your Excellency, That the Troop from the Beginning it was raised till to this Day, has never acted in the Duty of Marechaussée, but has allways performed their...
17To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will be informed by the Act of Congress of this Day herewith enclosed, they have been pleased to appoint Colo. Joseph Ward Commissary General of Prisoners in the room of Colo. Beaty resigned. I have the honor to be with the highest respect your Excelly’s most obt hbble servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA:PCC , item 14. The enclosed extract from the minutes of Congress for this date...
18From George Washington to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have successively received your several letters of the 23d and 28th of January 12th 14th and 23d of February, almost all of which were come to hand when I wrote you by General Du Portail, but by accident were not acknowleged. As far as it is possible for me at this Distance, and with a very inconsiderable knowlege of the Country, to judge, your reasonings on the best plan for an expedition...
19To George Washington from Josiah Quincy, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Ever since I had the honor to receive, your Excellency’s answer to my last Letter, relative to the disgraceful command of Boston harbor, by a british 50 gun ship; I have wish’d for a subject, on which, my sentiments might prove worthy of your notice; and, of course, an adequate ground, whereon to revive a correspondence, which, for want of it, could not, on my part, be decently continued; But,...
20To George Washington from Colonel Goose Van Schaick, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
In my last I informed your Excellency of the Depredations committed by the Enemy at Skeensborough, & on the Frontiers of Tryon County on the Mohawk River. Since which time I have received accounts, that on the 3rd Instant, Nineteen of the Inhabitants in the upper parts of Tryon, have been made prisoners by the Savages, A Grist Mill & three dwelling Houses burnt, & on the seventh, Eleven were...
21From George Washington to Lund Washington, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which incloses this, did not go off so soon as I expected. I received no letter from you by the last Post. I have ordered a Chariot to be made in Phila. The price £210 in specie, or Paper equivalent—have you any ways or means of coming at the former by your traffic with Mr Hooe or others? The difference between Specie and Paper in Phila. some little time ago was 60 or 70—I have...
22From George Washington to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 15th of Feby accompanying a case of Margeaux wine, came safe to hand. My thanks are offered for both—& I wish these may be as acceptable as the terms in which the Wine was presented, are polite; I shall then have made the return which seems most agreeable to your wish, altho’ it will be far short of the sense I entertain of the obligation. I am, Sir Your most Obt humble...
23To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 15 April 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The probability of a continuance of the War to the Southward, which will of course draw the troops of the State of Virginia to that quarter, makes it essentially necessary that every measure should be taken to procure supplies of Cloathing for them, especially of Shoes, Stockings and linen. The distance and the difficulty of transportation would render a supply of those Articles, from hence,...