11To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Peters, 28 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society A Disappointment in procuring a Bill which much chagrines me has prevented my sending you the Ballance of the Money you were so obliging to advance to my Father & for which I beg to repeat my most sincere Thanks. I hope to be more fortunate the next Oppertunity which shall offer. The Difficulty of Remittance is so great that I cannot expect any farther...
12[Diary entry: 28 April 1780] (Washington Papers)
28th. Cold & disagreeable in the forenoon. With clouds & a little rain in the afternoon. Wind getting Southwardly.
13General Orders, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Johnson[,] Lieutenant Colonel Huntington[,] Brigade Major Stark’s Brigade A Serjeant Corporal and twelve men from General St Clair’s Division for Fatigue Tomorrow to be under the direction of Mr shute. Varick transcript , DLC:GW , ser. 3, subseries G, letter book 5; Varick transcript , DLC:GW , ser. 3, subseries G, letter book 4. The Varick transcript...
14To George Washington from Claude- Boniface Collignon, 28 April 1780 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Claude-Boniface Collignon, 28 April 1780 . Collignon wrote GW on 15 March 1790: “I have had the honor to write you a letter in date April 28th 1780” (see Papers, Presidential Series W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series . 19 vols. to date. Charlottesville, Va., 1987–. 5:227–31 ).
15From George Washington to Major General Robert Howe, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Col. Hay delivered me your letter of the 18th of April. It is lamentable that we should be obliged to experience such distresses as we do every where. Those we feel here are not inferior to yours—we are constantly on the point of starving for want of provision and forage—A deficiency of money is the cause, and a cause for which the present situation of affairs renders it infinitely difficult...
16From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge Your Excellency’s dispatches of the 15th, which have been duly received. Colo. Ward, whose appointment to the Office of Commissary of prisoners they communicate, went to the Eastward soon after he returned from philadelphia. It is probable Your Excellency was acquainted with this circumstance; however I have thought it material to mention it, that you might know...
17From George Washington to La Luzerne, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
It is with pain I inform your Excellency that Mr de Miralles is worse to day—He had a restless night, and his fever is increased—His Throat is now so sore that it is with difficulty he can be nourished—and besides these, his respiration is bad. Symptoms so unfavourable in the advanced stages of a disorder afford little hope of recovery, especially in a person of Mr de Miralles’s age. Permit me...
18From George Washington to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since my last of the 15th Instant, I am favoured with Your two Letters of the 4th and 24th of March. The advices You give me greatly increase my anxiety for the fate of Charles Town and the State of South Carolina; and You will believe that my solicitude is not unmixed with considerations of personal friendship. The loss of the bar is a very serious loss—I hope it may not be a fatal one. This...
19To George Washington from Major James Moore, Jr., 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since I arrived at this Post with the detachment under my command it has not been in my Power to Procure any Kind of provision altho I have frequently sent to the Contracter for this County, Who is Never to be found at home, I have Also Made particular inquerey to find a magastrate but they are also fled. the Verry Severe duty that is required at this Post to prevent a Surprise, & the Want of...
20From George Washington to Joseph Reed, 28 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive Your Excellency’s Letter of the 18th Instant. I am sorry to find the Council are apprehensive that difficulties will attend the collecting of the Supplies required of the State, by the Resolution of Congress of the 25th of February; but I cannot see that it is in my power to prevent them in any degree. Your Excellency and the Council will perceive on recurring...