11General Orders, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Stark[,] Colonel shreve[,] Lieutenant Colonel Mellen[,] Major Tudor[,] Brigade Major Rice The General officers, the heads and branches of all the different departments in the Army—the Brigades of Infantry and Corps of Artillery—Horse and foot not brigaded—and the Artificers of the Army are desired to make immediate returns of all Camp...
12To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you’ll receive a parcel of Papers taken from a certain John Anderson who has a pass signed by General Arnold as may be seen The papers were found under the feet of his Stockings he offered the Men that took him one hundred Guineas and as many goods as they wou’d please to ask I have sent the Prisoner to General Arnold he is very desirous of the papers and every thing being sent with...
13To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed I send your Excellency all the intelligence I have been able to get since my last. Colonel Dayton and Major Burnet are still at Elizabeth Town and New York. No intelligence can be got. by the way of Pawlas Hook. I am afraid the great difficulty is the want of encouragement to run hazards. The Minister of France stole a march upon us in Camp. He came in Cog: and is on his way to New...
14To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday forwarded to you a letter from Colo. Wood informing you of his situation. That Post has been for some time past pretty regularly supplyed, and I hope will continue so to be for some time to come. A Person whose punctuality can be relied on offers to contract for victualling it. If We can agree on terms, and the Assembly will Strengthen our Hands Sufficiently, We think to adopt that...
15To George Washington from William Livingston, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
It appears by your Excellency’s Certificate of the 11th instant, & Mrs McKay’s Letter of the same date to me inclosing it, that she has utterly misapprehended me on the Subject of her Pass to New York. It never entered into my thoughts to tell her (as she says in her Letter I did) that “I would grant her my Permission to go to New York if General Washington would signify his Approbation.” What...
16To George Washington from Major General William Phillips, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency General Sir Henry Clinton expected I should have met a person from Your Excellency at this place to have conversed upon various subjects relating to a General Exchange as, also, upon the appointment of Commissarys to reside with the respective Armies, but, no such person from you, Sir having arrived at Elizabeth Town, I have only to enclose to Your Excellency the rough draft of...
Notes of a Conference between His Excellency the Count De Florida Blanca and M r . Jay at S t . Ildefonso, on Saturday Evening the 23 d . September 1780. After the usual civilities, the Count began the Conference by informing M r . Jay that the Court had received Intelligence from the Havannah of Congress having so far complied with the request made them to permit the Exportation of Provisions...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Brodhead, 23 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The Troops under my command having suffered for want of provisions I applied to the hon’ble. Board of war at Philad’a, for information respecting supplies. They have instructed me to apply to the Commissioners of Virg’a and Pen’a, on this side the mountains who they alledge have received orders to make ample provision. I have heard of one County Commissioner appointed for Pen’a, but I cannot...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 23 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have empowered Colo. Carrington to have twelve Boats, Scows or Batteaux built at Taylors Ferry and to draw on me for the cost. I recommended the constructing them so as to answer the transportation of Provisions along that river, as a change of position of the two Armies may render them unnecessary at Taylors Ferry, and I am thoroughly persuaded that unless we can find out some Channel of...
20From Thomas Jefferson to the North Carolina Board of War, 23 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry that it is utterly out of our Power to furnish a single stand of Arms for the Use of your Troops. After making reasonable Deductions we have right to expect, that 5000 or 5,500 Regulars and Militia will march from this State to yours in the Course of this and the ensuing Month; for these we have but 3000 Stand of Arms. I have apprised Congress and General Washington of this and...